Representative Office in Vietnam

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.

Client: We have communicate with a company whom are customers of ours in your state regards merging, we like to merge with the company to increased revenue, market share, and cross-selling opportunities. We would like to retain you to help us in the process to review proposed transactions for acquisitions...

A representative office of foreign education institution in Vietnam is a dependent unit of a foreign educational institution or organization, established and operating in Vietnam in order to promote and develop cooperation and investment in education in accordance with the laws of Vietnam. Accordingly, in order to be established...

SBLAW would like to note that an important matter of representative office (R.O) in Vietnam is Personal Income Tax of Employees working for R.O.

Investor: Dear SB Law company, I write this email to ask for some information, related to one of my customer. My customer is the steel trading company, from England. And now, they want to set up a representative office/ company in Vietnam.   On behalf of our customer, we would like to ask...

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: After SBLAW submit the application document, within 15 working days, we can get the license of RO? Answen: Regarding to time schedule for obtaining License for R.O, after 15 working days from submission of required documents to the competent authority, we can obtain the License for R.O Question: According to...

So far SBLaw has successfully obtained the Representative Office License and supported R.O’s matter for ROCK SOLID SHEDS (Australian investor); FITI TESTING AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Korean investor); UBM (Thailand investors); TOHKEMI (Japanese investor); LEVI’S (Levi Strauss Global Trading Company – Hong Kong Investor); TRI HK (Hong Kong Investor); NETRUNNER SYSTEMS PRIVATE LIMITED, (Singapore Investor,), PEGASUS ( Singapore...

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

To set up Representative Office (RO) in Vietnam, the following documents must be submitted to Vietnam Authority: