FLAT Legal Journal
Not every foreign purchase of capital in Vietnam needs prior permission, but erring in either direction is costly: an unnecessary filing slows the deal, a missing one stalls…
Read article ↗Contributing capital or buying shares is the fastest gateway for a foreign investor into an operating Vietnamese company, but also the gateway with the most layers of screening:…
Read article ↗Capital transfer tax is usually remembered last in a joint venture sale, after the price is fixed and the money is ready to move. Yet Vietnamese tax on…
Read article ↗Most joint venture exit disputes do not start over whether a partner may leave, but over a number: what the stake is worth. The staying side sees a…
Read article ↗When a foreign investor exits, the joint venture does not have to die: the Vietnamese partner or another domestic investor can buy out the entire foreign stake and…
Read article ↗Two foreign investors forming a company together in Vietnam often assume they are avoiding the complexity of a local joint venture. In reality they trade one kind of…
Read article ↗Most FDI joint ventures in Vietnam do not die because the market turned bad; they die of mistakes planted in the negotiation room, years before the conflict surfaces.…
Read article ↗The operating term printed on the investment registration certificate and in the charter is a countdown clock many joint ventures only look at when a few months remain.…
Read article ↗Dilution rarely arrives as an openly declared decision; it comes through a rushed capital increase, a private placement to a third party, or a convertible loan quietly turning…
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A seemingly simple question — “how long does an IRC take in province X?” — is the question most likely to receive a misleading answer in investment consulting.…
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