FLAT Legal Journal
Scenario: a European buyer tells its Vietnamese supplier: prove your factory’s environmental footprint, or lose the contract. The supplier’s industrial park has no shared wastewater treatment, no energy…
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Scenario: a foreign investor budgets carefully for industrial land rent — then the first year’s invoices add 15% in fees never mentioned in the quotation: park management fees,…
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Scenario: a foreign manufacturer compares two industrial park quotes — 140 USD per square meter in the North versus 180 in the South — and leans North on…
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In wind-project M&A, legal due diligence sets the purchase price and deal structure — one serious defect found can cut tens of millions of dollars off the price…
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Buying an operating (brownfield) solar project is far faster than building new — but it concentrates legal and tax risks into one deal. Buyers pay for the project’s…
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Power is among Vietnam’s top FDI magnets — but also the sector with the most complex investment procedures, where investment law, electricity law and sector planning overlap. The…
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Solar and wind projects under construction spend hundreds of billions of dong on equipment — a large share being input VAT. A proper VAT refund recovers significant cash…
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COD (Commercial Operation Date) is the day a project starts being paid under the PPA tariff — each delayed day is a day of lost revenue while interest…
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Power that cannot connect to the grid is just expensive scrap metal. The connection agreement with EVN is the technical-legal gate deciding whether a project reaches commercial operation,…
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Scenario: you invest in a full studio shoot — stylist, retouching — for a beautiful product photo set. A week later, the images appear pixel-for-pixel on a competitor’s…
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