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

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

International taxes (inbound and outbound)
Direct and indirect taxes, sales and service taxes
Transfer pricing
Double Taxation Agreements
Complex international tax structure

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

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

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

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

Purchase and transfer of real estate
Commercial leases
Representation with authorities

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

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

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