Vietnam

Our Ho Chi Minh City office emerged from a long-standing successful collaboration with trusted local partners to take on a pro-active role in the promising Vietnamese business and legal landscape. At Luther we commit to excellence and accessibility. We aim to serve as reliable partners in one of south-east Asia’s most prom­ising markets. We are confident that we hold the expertise to add value advising on any legal or tax issue that may arise during your market entry and business life cycle in Vietnam. We serve not only as lawyers, but as comprehensive business enablers, offering seamless business process outsourcing tailored to your practical needs at competitive prices.

When working with I.N.C. Law firm Vietnam you benefit from dedicated foreign and domestic advisors, gain access to support by a reliable Vietnamese law firm and partner up with a network of renowned law offices across Europe and Asia that work hand-in-hand to deliver commercially practical solutions.

We have done our job well, if you can focus on growing your business, assured that your legal, compliance and administrative tasks are taken care of.

Legal and tax advisory and corporate services

Corporate/M&A
  • Options of market entry and legal forms, investments 
  • Establishment of enterprises, branches, representative and regional offices or joint ventures with local partners 
  • Domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions including comprehensive due diligence across all legal and tax areas, negotiation, post-merger integration 
  • Corporate restructuring, tax group structures 
  • Partnership agreements, articles of association (charters) and other documents of incorporation 
  • Shareholder disputes, intra-company arbitration 
  • Corporate body liability and risk mitigation 
  • Corporate Compliance risk assessment and mitigation 
Tax law
  • International taxes (inbound and outbound) 
  • Direct and indirect taxes, sales and service taxes 
  • Transfer pricing 
  • Double Taxation Agreements 
  • Complex international tax structure 
Intellectual property & copyright law
  • Copyright, competition and advertising law 
  • User agreements, licensing agreements, NDAs 
  • Licencing systems, commercial use of IP rights 
  • Registration of local and intellectual property rights 
  • Legal analysis of and strategies for IP portfolios 
  • IP protection strategies development 
  • Purchase and sale of industrial property rights 
  • Defence of industrial property rights 
  • Enforcement of IP rights against infringements 
  • Implications of the German Trade Secret Protection Act (GeschGehG) on cross-border business operations 
  • Concepts for the protection of sensitive know-how 
Information technology & data protection
  • Data protection compliant agreements, policies 
  • Contractual clauses as data protection safeguards 
  • Defence against claims for information 
  • Trainings for internal data protection officers 
  • Data protection compliance management 
  • Data protection impact assessments 
  • International data transfers 
  • Representation vis-à-vis data protection authorities 
  • Risk management in data protection incidents 
  • Domestic and international data protection audits 
  • Use of new technologies (smart home, autonomous driving, health or Big Data applications) 
  • Website, online shop and cookie set-up, use of tracking and analysis tools 
International Trade, Commercial & Distribution Law
  • General terms and conditions, supply/purchase/ distribution agreements, agency agreements
  • Supply chain compliance management
  • Foreign investment & export control law
  • Internal export control guidelines and corresponding compliance mechanisms
  • WTO, anti-dumping and ant-subsidy law
  • Product liability claims
  • Product/Services approval and appeals
Start-ups and venture capital
  • Company set-up and spin-off 
  • Seed and series financing rounds 
  • Participation, influence, control 
  • Angel, interim, mezzanine financing 
  • Convertible loans, silent partnership 
  • Employee participation, incentives 
  • Exit strategies, relocation, evaluation 
  • IP transfer, protection, commercial use 
Real estate law
  • Purchase and transfer of real estate 
  • Commercial leases 
  • Representation with authorities 
Employment law
  • Employment contracts for employees and directors 
  • Human Resources (HR) Internal Manuals & Policies 
  • HR organisational restructuring, reconciliation of interest 
  • Social compensation schemes 
  • Secondment agreements 
  • Social security/insurance matters 
Immigration and work permits
  • Visa and work permit applications & appeals 
  • Residence permits for relatives (Dependant Pass) 
  • Permanent Residency – PR applications 
  • Appeal proceedings against rejections 
  • Complementary services and administrative support 
Litigation and Arbitration (by local Partners)
  • Cross-border and domestic litigation (formal court proceedings) in all fields of legal advice rendered by us 
  • Alternative dispute resolution: cross-border and domestic arbitration and mediation 
  • Resolving investment disputes 
Corporate services
  • Company secretarial services
  • Financial accounting and reporting
  • Payment processing
  • Human resources and payroll accounting

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Thi Thuy Trang Phan, LL.M.

Partner

T +65 6408 8000

[Translate to English:] Rechtsanwalt Leif Dustin Schneider, Energy; Health Care & Life Science; Mobility & Logistics; Real Estate & Infrastructure; Arbeitsrecht; Außenwirtschaftsrecht; Capital Markets & Banking; Complex Disputes; Compliance & Internal Investigations; Corporate/M&A; Datenschutzrecht; Energierecht; Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz & Urheberrecht; Handels- und Vertriebsrecht, Produkthaftung/Product Compliance; Immobilien- und Baurecht; Start-Ups und Venture Capital

Leif Dustin Schneider

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T +84 7698 11602

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