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5 Essential Steps for Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in Vietnam
Why Judicial Certainty is the Attraction For Foreign Investment into Vietnam? Vietnam is at an important moment in its economic history. For many years, Vietnam’s growth model relied heavily on competitive manufacturing and cost efficient labour. That foundation still matters. But it is no longer sufficient on its own. Across the world, digital transformation is …
Intern Recruitment in Hanoi Law Office
ANT Lawyers is looking for motivated and driven law students or recent graduates to join our Hanoi office as interns. This is an excellent opportunity to gain practical legal experience by working directly on real cases involving foreign direct investment, corporate advisory, and cross border transactions. If you are passionate about law, eager to learn, …
Civil Judgment Enforcement Law 2025: What It Means for Business in Domestic Arbitration Enforcement
Vietnam Civil Judgment Enforcement Law The Civil Judgment Enforcement Law 2025 bring a positive change, with hope to improve the effectiveness of Vietnam dispute resolution mechanism. For businesses, the Civil Judgment Enforcement Law 2025 plays an important role because a judgment or arbitral decision is only as valuable as its enforceability. When enforcement is clearer …
5 Practical Arbitration Considerations Vietnam Insurance Lawyers See in Cargo Insurance Disputes
When the cargo owners call Vietnam insurance lawyers for help with a potential cargo insurance dispute, the incident has usually happened weeks or even months earlier, after a long chain of internal and external actions. By that point, the cargo owner has typically already notified the insurance agent and the insurer, submitted a claim, and …
Vietnam Investment Law 2025: A Smoother Entry, Clearer Compliance
For foreign investors who have been following Vietnam’s development and considering Vietnam as one of the choices for their investment decision, they usually ask one practical question before entering, especially from the year 2026, that if the Vietnam investment Law 2025 makes this easier, or more complicated for investing and doing business here. The Vietnamese …
9 Things Marine Insurance Lawyers Do Differently in Cargo Insurance Disputes
After you bought marine insurance from insurance agent, you felt relieved. And most of the time, no thing happened. The shipment went smoothly. Eveyone got used to the routine and did not pay attention on the logisics of signing, paying the insurance fee, or reading the small letters in the insurance contracts. When a cargo …
Decree 337 Explained on Electronic Employment Contract in Vietnam
Sometimes, we come across clients whom dispute against their employers but could not provide a signed labour contract. For some cases, there are a contract version filed at authority for work permit application, and another contract version agreed with the employee. That could be changed now with electronic employment contract in Vietnam being introduced in …
Vietnam PIT Reform for Foreign Employees in 2026, What Benefits Expats Can Actually Feel?
If you are a foreign expat in Vietnam with work permit, temporary residence card (TRC), employer sponsorship, you might be interested to learn about the new law on personal income tax (PIT) that impact your payslip. You would also concern when this new law will become effective and whether you would take home less or …
5 Key Insights into the Vietnam Intellectual Property Law Amendments: What Businesses Must Prepare For
Introduction Vietnam Intellectual Property Law amendments have long been expected. Why? For sometime, we have seen clients’ feedback on the delay of the procedures i.e. registration of IP rights, refusal to possible IP violations. Many times, we come across clients feeling hopeless seeking solutions to enforcement of violations of IP rights. Now, it seems Vietnam …
How Does the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism Work? 6 Matters Vietnam Exporters and Investors Should Know
Trade disputes between countries used to feel like politics but that lead to many issues to be felt by companies, by consumers i.e. price changes, duty changes, blocked shipments, and sudden compliance costs. When that happens, the WTO dispute settlement mechanism is one of the few global systems designed to turn trade conflict back into …