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Vietnam and Japan Signed 12 Cooperation Agreements

January 6, 2022January 15, 2020 by ANT Lawyers

The Secretary General of Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, the President of Japan - Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Union- Nikai Toshihiro, on January 12th, 2020 met with the Vietnam’s Prime Minister- Mr. Nguyen Xuan Phuc in Hoi An to discuss economic, cultural and tourist exchange topics. At the meeting, the representative of Vietnam welcomed the Japanese ... Read More

Transfer of Investment Projects in Vietnam

May 13, 2022May 18, 2019 by ANT Lawyers

Under the current Law on Investment, investors are entitled to transfer part or all of the project to another investor when satisfied the specific conditions and conducting to procedure of project adjustment under the regulation of law. The conditions of project transfer The project is not terminated in the cases as prescribed in Clause 1 ... Read More

Post Licensing Procedures

January 13, 2022June 19, 2018 by ANT Lawyers

The issuance of the business registration certificate respectively the investment certificate is the first step to commerce operations. However, even after the changes in the Vietnam investment law, there are some post-licensing procedures, as listed below, which can be time consuming and therefore should be kept in mind. The following check-list should be considered: 1/ … Read More

CPC Code – Foreign Investors Need to Know in Vietnam

July 22, 2020March 28, 2018 by ANT Lawyers

Once a foreign investor wishes to invest in Vietnam, they not only need to be well-informed about investment environment, incentive, labor, State policies, but also need to know about CPC code. Each specific service is fixed with a provisional Central Product Classification (called CPC code) belonging to Central Product Classification of United Nations. In the ... Read More

How To Conduct Legal Due Diligence for M&A in Vietnam?

December 10, 2021April 27, 2017 by ANT Lawyers

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) has become popular in Vietnam as the country develops and more investors are eager to invest and gain control of the business enough to engage in, decide important business matters through partial or full ownership of an enterprise. A successful M&A mean the parties achieve their financial and commercial goals (increasing ... Read More

Circular 24/2016/TT-BXD on Management of Construction Investment Projects

December 6, 2021September 28, 2016 by ANT Lawyers

Compared with Circular 17/2016, Circular 24/2016 amended some contents as follow: Amend the regulations on the practicing certificate that have been granted before the time the Circular 17 takes effect as follows: + With the certificate stating the validity period, it is entitled to continue to use until expiration. For one that does not state ... Read More

Decree 118/2015/ND-CP Guiding the Investment Law 2014

September 29, 2021August 24, 2016 by ANT Lawyers

Decree 118/2015/ND-CP was issued on November 12th 2015 by the Government. It takes effect from December 27th 2015 clearly regulates some regulations of the Law on Investment on the application, control, publish investment business condition; measures to ensuring investment, investment incentives, investment procedures, operational implementation of investment projects and state management of investment projects. Regarding … Read More

Economic Need Test for Second Retail Outlet for Foreign-Invested Companies

April 9, 2019August 10, 2014 by ANT Lawyers

According to Decree 23/2007/ND-CP, a foreign-invested company wishes to open more than two retail outlets will need to pass an Economic Need Test (ENT) except in limited circumstances. However, there are not specific definitions on ENT, in which the investor could check it against their capility that could make foreign investors be hesitated on entering Vietnam … Read More

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