Doing business in Vietnam

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

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

Client is willing to engage a legal consultant on advices regarding the establishment of representative office in Hanoi, Vietnam.

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

Can we create a local Vietnam company with 100% ownership if we get a longer term job opportunity in Vietnam?

Question: Our Chief Representative will be a french national, which visa type is better to work in Vietnam? This person will fix it's residence in Hanoi Answen: In this case, after obtaining the License for establishment of Representative Office, he shall need to obtain work permit. Then, he can obtain the...

Question: We are a HongKong incorporated company with 51 years in business. We would like to establish a Rep Office in Vietnam and at the same time we would like to know the pro's and con's between Rep Office and 100% fully owned company in Vietnam.

Question: Our startup has 3 founders, what kind of paper and share do we need to do? In future, if we want increase stock share of a founder / employee because he did a great job, how can we do that?

It takes around two weeks to form a new company of your own proposed name by first conducting a name search or taking 3-4 days if you choose one of the shelf companies from the HK shelf list.

Foreign investor: Dear Sirs I am writing on behalf of a Hongkong registered company. I understand from your webpage that you specialise in services for establishing and closing representative office in Vietnam. We have 2 Representative offices in Vietnam (Hanoi and Hochiminh City) and we intend to close one of them (Hanoi...