Doing business in Vietnam

Investor: We are currently looking into changing our structure from a rep office to a wholly foreign owned  Vietnamese company. Can you run me through step by step what needs to happen if we decide to proceed. I thought you would be the right person to know. Lawyer of SBLAW:Thank...

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

After receiving License for Representative office in Vietnam, regarding the post-licensing procedures, SBLAW advises as follows: 1) Implement the Initial Personal Income Tax Procedure regarding the all of employees who are working for the Rep Office. Please kindly let your Internal Accountant or External Accounting Agency contacted with the Division of...

Client: Our Company intend to set up an office in Vietnam, may be you are able to advise us on this. We are american Trading Company and has presence in USA (HQ), Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and China. We would like to know the minimum paid up capital for setting up a...

We understand that you would like us to advise on possibility of setting up a foreign invested company (FIC) in Vietnam for importation of beauty products.

Under Vietnam Law, you can establish Foreign Invested Company (FIC) for exporting goods from Vietnam. However, we also would like to note that goods to be exported from Vietnam must not include rare and valuable seafood such as European Otter, hairy-nosed otter, smooth-coached otter, small-clawed cotter and golden coin turtle.

Question: I know your Law firm by visiting your web site. I am a foreigner and would like to consult you the following legal advice. Some Question to seek for your advice: 1.Can a foreigner (foreign company or foreign natural person) own a local trading nature business company (joint venture share structure...

Question: My company want to enlarge the import ranges. Please quote. Answer: - In this case, in order to supplement goods to be imported and distributed, you shall have to obtain Business License from Hanoi People Committee. Generally, in order to obtain this, it shall take you about 45 working days...

Q: Our company is based on Singapore and we would like to expand our business in oversea by starting a small Japanese restaurant inside of supermarket in HMC. So I'm requesting a estimation for your service and explanation on how the whole process would take place. And since we would like...

Question: Our company business covers interantional freight forwarding, warehousing and cross-border logistics. Now we are planing to set up a new company in Vietnam, could you give us a quotation about full service for foreigner start a physical operating company? Answer: SBLAW would like to reply you as follows:According to Vietnam’s...