FLAT Legal Journal
Scenario: a Korean Tier-2 supplier has followed its chaebol customer for decades — first within Korea’s industrial belts, now the customer is expanding in Vietnam. The supplier’s board…
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Scenario: a precision-components maker must choose where to build its next plant: Japan, where its engineers and key suppliers already are, or Vietnam, where costs are lower but…
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The setup: an FDI company registers VND 50 billion in charter capital but actually contributes 30 billion. The investor wants to reduce charter capital to match reality —…
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The setup: after five loss-making years, an investor decides to terminate a manufacturing project early and repatriate the remaining capital. The plan is simple — sell the machines,…
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The setup: a foreign investor appoints a sitting state official as the legal representative of the project company. The IRC dossier is rejected: the appointee falls under the…
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The setup: a group has a representative office in Hanoi and a subsidiary in Bac Ninh. To keep things “lean,” it wants one person as both chief representative…
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The setup: an investor puts USD 20 million into a Vietnamese industrial-park project. Advisers propose: investor → Singapore HoldCo → Hong Kong HoldCo → Vietnamese company. It sounds…
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The setup: a Japanese company’s rep office license lists its scope as “trade promotion, market research.” The chief representative gets a request from a Vietnamese client: “please sign…
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The setup: a Korean logistics firm with a rep office in Hai Phong wants another in Da Nang for central-Vietnam clients. The question: how many rep offices may…
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The setup: a manufacturer headquartered in Binh Duong opens a branch in Hanoi registered as independently accounting. At year-end, the chief accountant folds all the branch’s revenue and…
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