Amending the IRC to Add New Business Lines
Expanding into new business lines is a natural growth step for an FDI enterprise — a manufacturer wants to add distribution trading, a services company wants to add…
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Amending the IRC to Reduce Investment Capital: Breach of Commitment?
Reducing investment capital is a sensitive decision in regulators’ eyes: it runs against the expectation of attracting FDI, so many investors fear that amending the Investment Registration Certificate…
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Amending the IRC When the Investor’s Nationality Changes
An individual investor’s nationality sounds like purely personal data, but on the Investment Registration Certificate (IRC) it is a legal criterion: nationality determines which market-opening commitments the investor…
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Tax Due Diligence in Vietnam M&A: Quantifying Tax Recovery Risks
Every target company comes with a tax past — and that past, after the deal, belongs to the buyer together with the company. Tax due diligence is the…
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Legal Due Diligence When Acquiring Vietnamese Companies: 50-Item Checklist
Legal due diligence is the process by which the buyer “inspects” the target company before money changes hands — and its quality decides whether the buyer pays the…
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Splitting Contributed Capital When a Foreign Investor Exits a JV with a Vietnamese Partner
Exiting a joint venture with a Vietnamese partner is not like “taking one’s share out” — because in an operating joint venture company, there is no asset that…
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Equity Transfers in Logistics Companies Serving Supply Chains
Logistics companies are lively M&A targets in the supply-chain shift wave — but also the enterprise type where capital transfers are wrapped in the most layers of conditions:…
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Buyer Withholding Tax for Foreign Sellers in Capital Transfers in Vietnam
When buying capital from a foreign investor with no presence in Vietnam, the Vietnamese buyer is usually not just the payer — they are the transaction’s withholding agent,…
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Capital Transfers and Handover of Labor Contracts and Sub-Licenses in Vietnam
The question “when selling the company, how are employees and licences handled” contains a premise to undo immediately: in a capital transfer (buying capital contributions/shares), the enterprise legal…
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Registering Member Changes After Capital Transfers: 10-Working-Day Deadline in Vietnam
This topic’s title says “10 working days” — and that is an error needing immediate correction, because it makes enterprises think they have more time than they actually…
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