Foreign Investment

The establishment of a Foreign invested company (FIC) in Vietnam requires an Investment Certificate from the licensing authority. Depending upon the location of the company, the licensing authority may be the Provincial People’s Committee (for companies located outside industrial or export processing zones) or the provincial Industrial and Export...

SBLAW would like to advise that from 1st July 2015, the procedure for foreign investment in Vietnam shall be changed. Accordingly, the procedure for setting up foreign invested company shall undergo two separate steps: - Step 1: Obtainment of Investment Certificate. The Law stipulates that it shall take about 20 working...

Client: We want to setup a branch in Vietnam to do only import and sell their products to foreing invested company and  its affiliates and will change it to a corporate one or two year later. The product is paper. Please let me know the below thing. To setup a branch 1.     Condition 2.     Necessary documents 3.     Schedule 4.     Service...

Question: I am contacting you because we have a new client interested to setup a manufacturing unit in Southeast Asia. North Vietnam, and in particular Dong Nai, is amongst the options we are currently considering. We are currently looking for a local partner who could assist us with such project. The...

Question: We are now desiring to set up a Subsidiary Company in Republic of the Union of Myanmar (hereinafter referred to as“Myanmar”) in the field of environmental technical service (hereinafter referred to as “Subsidiary”), please advise legal procedure? Answen: SBLAW would like to advise as follows: 1.OUR PRELIMINARY COMMENT 1.1.            CONDITIONS TO...

Investor: Interest in your service of company formation for 100% foreign owned. We are a Hongkong registered company and would like to extend our present in Vietnam and would like to understand the regulatory structure & process to set up A 100% foreign owned company in Vietnam 1.     100% foreign owned 2.     Branch or subsidiary 3.     Can...

Investment project shall be subject to decision of Provincial People Committee[...]

Question: My partner and I (Who are from Singapore ) are interested in opening a food sauce manufacturing factory in Vietnam. Our goal is to manufacture then sell the sauces domestically along with internationally. We do not know where to start in terms of company formation, though. In addition, we would...

SBLAW gives some information about Establishment of a Representative Office in Vietnam as follows:

Q: Do I need to rent a factory first, hire employees and to put the whole factory, or is this all done on the paper, for the authorities to evaluate? A: You do not need to rent a factory and hire employees for the authorities' evaluation. This is all done...