Doing business in Vietnam

When foreign investor would like to Acquire equity of a pure local company in Vietnam, SBLAW would like to advise as follwos:

The Vietnam Company has intention to open a representative office (hereinafter referred to as the “RO”) in China, we would like to provide some information as follows[...]

Question: To set up a foreign factory, what should I prepare? Answer:  Under Vietnam Law, for setting up a foreign owned factory, you shall be required to prepare an investment proposal for long term or medium term, in which you shall have to define location, productivity, investment capital, estimated turnover, profit...

This is reference to your email from which, we understand that foreign company (hereinafter referred to as “Client”) is now seeking legal advices for establishment of a Foreign Invested Company (hereinafter referred to as “FIC”) for software production in Vietnam. We thereforeare grateful to present you our Legal Services...

Question: We were asked to provide a company (the “Client”, i.e., the Issuer) in preparation for IPO in Hongkong with a consolidated fee quote for acting as the Issuer’s counsel. Because the Client’s primary operating subsidiary is in Vietnam (the “Vietnam Subsidiary”), we will have to work with a Vietnam law...

Question: I have a small problem which I want your advice. We have a number of products which our “product name” and the actual “registered name” differ from each other. So my questions are in two parts. 1. For upcoming export (this week), what should we state on the export documents?...

Logistic services under Vietnamese law, are the commercial activities whereby traders/enterprises organize the performance of one or many jobs including reception, transportation, warehousing, yard storage of cargos[...]

After obtaining the Establishment License for the Representative Office (RO), RO needs to implement the post-licensing procedure as follows[...]

Under Vietnam Law, foreign investor can run its foreign investment project by either of establishment of foreign invested company or signing Business Co-Operation Contract with local partner or buying in an existing company.

Q:  I have some questions relating to our representative office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. 1.    How much the cost to close the representative office ? 2.    Can we leave Rep Office dormant…if so, at what cost...? 3.    Can we re-open the entity at our discretion as some point in the...