Doing business in Vietnam

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Question: Greeting from Thailand. We are a Thai company, manufacturer and brand owner of leading health-herbal food and supplements products, many brands are no.1 in Thailand. Currently, we are in the process of exploring business opportunity to introduce some of our product lines to Vietnam market. We have done in-depth market studies and have...

The establishment of the foreign invested company (hereinafter referred to as the “NewCo”) requires an Investment Certificate from the licensing authority[...]

Representative Office (R.O) needs to submit in writing the annual report to Department of Industry and Trade by January 30th, 2015.  (Article 19, Decree no. 72/2006/ND-CP detailing the Trade Law's regulation on Rep.Office, Branch of foreign businesses in Vietnam provided that, prior to the final working day of January, R.O has to report...

SBLaw would like to provide you the legal procedure for formation of joint stock company in Vietnam as follows:

Question: What is the type of Tourism license a JV (Vietnamese company with foreign capital) can apply to: Domestic, Inbound, Outbound, all of these? Or is there any restrictions? I read somewhere that a JV can only organize domestic trips in Vietnam for foreigners who are inbound customers, but...

SBLAW would like to provide legal opinion regarding to the legality of designing gaming solution for wagering online sport as below: 1.  SPECIFIC COMMENTS ON THE LEGALITY OF THE PROJECT  1.1. Legality of designing game online It can be said that there is no complete legal framework for online gaming...

Foreign company would like to open representative office in Vietnam, they should care the following matters: Q: Before setting up the Representative Office (RO), can investor register their trademark in Vietnam? A: Yes, they can register the trademark under the name of foreign company with Vietnam National Office of Intellectual Property...

Q: What docs should be presented to apply the license of R.O  ?   A: Please see the attached file for your information of our required documents. We also would like to note that legalized copy of document is only valid within 03 months from the date of legalization. Thus, scanned...

If a HongKong Company would like to open a representative office in Ho Chi Minh City, SBLaw would like to advise as follows: