FLAT Legal Journal
The parent company’s incorporation certificate, charter, financial statements, support letter — every document from the overseas parent must be made “believable to Vietnamese authorities” before entering the IRC…
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More IRC dossiers get “stuck” on financial capacity than you would expect — and most stalls come from financial documents that are missing, wrongly formatted, or fail to…
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“What is the minimum capital to open a 100% foreign-owned company?” — the correct answer is: the law sets no general figure. But the question actually confuses three…
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The first truth, stated plainly: Vietnamese law has no separate “holding company” entity type. No chapter of Enterprise Law 59/2020/QH14 governs holdings. Every “holding company” operating in Vietnam…
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Company A (foreign) owns company B (Vietnam), and company B sets up company C (Vietnam) — making C a “tier-2 subsidiary”. The question 90% of investors ask wrong…
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A foreign group opening a subsidiary in Vietnam is not just “setting up another company” — it is inserting a new link into a global ownership chain, with…
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Choosing an enterprise form is not about picking “the popular one” — it is about deciding who gets to decide what, and how you will raise capital later.…
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“Which sectors bar 100% foreign ownership?” has no fixed answer — the answer lives in a list being updated under the new Investment Law. This article does not…
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A 100% foreign-owned company is the model most foreign investors choose in Vietnam. Instead of a generic pros-and-cons list, this article keeps a risk ledger: every advantage paired…
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Do not start with “which is better”. Run through a three-layer filter in this exact order — 80% of cases get an answer at layer 1 or 2:…
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