An executive office for foreign contractors in Vietnam is not just a physical office for engineers to sit in. It is part of the local readiness plan for a foreign contractor that will perform construction-related work in Vietnam from regulatory perspectives. Business teams may call it a project office, a management office, a project management …
Arbitration procedure in Vietnam can affect your time, your cost, your evidence position, and your control of the dispute long before the final award. Many foreign companies lose control because they misunderstand what happens after arbitration starts, and they react too late, which damages the result. Here we explain the arbitration procedure in Vietnam that …
Foreign contractors usually realize they need a construction operation license later than they should, and then rush to find ways to speed up the process. By that time, after the contract is signed and the project owner already expects mobilization, they find that the application is not only a legal filing. It should have been …
To most managers’ surprise, an arbitration clause in Vietnam is one short paragraph in your contract, but it is also a separate agreement, independent from the contract itself. When a transaction goes wrong, that short paragraph decides where you bring the dispute, how long it takes, and whether you can collect the money you win. …
Foreign contractors working in Vietnam often see different words used for the same approval. Some contracts use the phrase contractor permit in Vietnam. Some tender documents say foreign contractor permit Vietnam. Commercial teams may call it foreign contractor license Vietnam. Lawyers and authorities today often use the term construction operation license in Vietnam. These terms …
Let’s face the reality. After the contract is signed, the project owner expects you on site and your team is ready to mobilize. Then someone asks whether your company already has a construction operation license in Vietnam, and that question can change the project schedule. This is often the gap between two different schedules: the …
Quick Reference For a long time, the easier direction of capital has been into Vietnam. Moving capital the other way, from a Vietnam company to a project abroad, has been harder. That is now changing. Vietnam is slowly opening the door for its companies to invest overseas, but it is doing so under supervision. For …
Quick Reference The Australia anti-dumping investigation on Vietnamese galvanized steel was formally initiated on April 30th, 2026, when the Australian Anti-Dumping Commission registered Case 702 covering zinc-coated galvanized steel imported from Vietnam and the Republic of Korea. The estimated dumping margin reported for Vietnamese exporting companies is 56.21 percent, and the deadline for exporters to …
When Vietnam issues a new decree on investment, the most common question managers ask is whether foreign-owned companies have to amend IRC or ERC. With Decree 96/2026/ND-CP, the answer for most operating businesses is no. You do not have to rush to amend your Investment Registration Certificate (IRC) or Enterprise Registration Certificate (ERC) just because …
Foreign companies doing business in Vietnam increasingly use arbitration to resolve commercial disputes outside the court system. But many of them underestimate what it takes to make arbitration in Vietnam actually work. To put it simply, for arbitration to work in Vietnam, the arbitration clause must be valid, the procedure must be managed carefully, the …
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