Doing business in Vietnam

According to Vietnam-WTO Commitments, foreign investor is allowed to setup foreign owned company in Vietnam to provide financial management consulting services (CPC 89502)[...]

Under Vietnam Law, foreign enterprise can setup a branch office for conducting business activities in Vietnam. However, in practice, possibility for setting up a branch office of a foreign trading company in Vietnam is very low. Generally, upon submission of application dossier for setting up branch office in Vietnam, the competent...

Question: I contact you in order to get more information about settting up a company in Vietnam. My current company is located in USA and we plan to move in Asia due to the recent events in the country. We are specialised in Photo frames manufacturing, we export 95% of our...

Investors have to prepare these following dossiers to register an investment project in Vietnam:

It is our understanding that your Company is in need of consulting and supporting for procedures of branch establishment in Hanoi for business and initial tax declaration for branch, SBLaw has sufficient capacity to provide to your Company the consulting services and support as above. [...]

In this case, we understand that the FIC that the Client intends to setup shall (i) implement import and export right against electronic products and (ii) manufacture electronic products in Binh Duong Province.

Investor: We are American corporation providing Immigration Services. As far as I can see on your website, we can open Rep Office in Ho Chi Minh and offer our services with one limitation - that the client have to pay to USA. Is that correct? Do we have to hire local...

Question: Hi lawyer, I have a question. As a foreign investor, I want to buy stocks from a Vietnam Jsc. Thus, I want to ask you: Do I have to send application to DPI? Answer: SB Law appreciate your interest in our legal consultant services. Regarding your question, we would like to...

Question: Is the Representative Office (RO) a kind of legal entity ? What is main function of the Representative Office (RO)? Could you please also let us know the fees and requirements to set up the RO?

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