FLAT Legal Journal
A manufacturing joint venture founded in the 1990s is approaching its 50-year expiry while the plant still makes money, the leased land still holds exploitation value, and neither…
Read article ↗The joint venture has lost money three years running, the Vietnamese partner has lost enthusiasm but refuses to buy out the foreign side, and both refuse to inject…
Read article ↗The foreign investor’s biggest worry in a Vietnamese joint venture is not the cooperation years, but the farewell day: the local partner holds all customer relationships, suppliers and…
Read article ↗Two 50/50 partners in a manufacturing joint venture disagree on plant expansion: one wants more debt to expand, the other wants dividends paid out. Neither commands the votes…
Read article ↗In 2024 the global minimum tax took effect in Vietnam and a series of FDI projects enjoying a 10% preferential rate had to rebuild their entire financial models…
Read article ↗A mid-sized Korean manufacturer asked about the incentive package reserved for foreign SMEs in Vietnam — and the honest answer is that no such package exists. Vietnamese law…
Read article ↗An FDI enterprise was fined and had a violation recorded in its project file not for breaching investment rules, but for forgetting to file a quarterly supervision report…
Read article ↗Advertising is a sovereign activity: a foreign shop running ads and hiring KOLs to promote goods into Vietnam is performing advertising activity aimed at the Vietnamese market, and…
Read article ↗Cross-border marketplace selling and setting up a company in Vietnam are not two price tiers of the same model — they are two different legal structures with fundamentally…
Read article ↗The answer for a fulfilment warehouse lies in the warehouse’s nature: goods sent into a domestic fulfilment warehouse in Vietnam are goods that completed import procedures before entering…
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