Legal services
Legal support from the investment decision to daily operations
Six practice groups, one accountable team in Vietnam. Pick where you are in the journey — every service page states the work, the deliverables and the usual timeline.
Stage 01
Decide
Structure, ownership limits and whether the activity is conditional for foreign investors.
Stage 02
Establish
IRC and ERC, charter capital, lease and site documents, first-year registrations.
Stage 03
Operate
Employment, contracts, tax and accounting interfaces, data protection, permits.
Stage 04
Grow or exit
M&A, restructuring, capital increases, share transfers and dispute support.
Practice groups
What we are engaged for, most often
Full directory
All 17 service lines, A to Z
Engagement model
How an engagement actually runs
Scope, fee basis and deliverables are agreed in writing before work starts. You always know who is on the file and what happens next.
Step 01
Scoping call
Thirty minutes with a partner: the plan, the licences it touches, the realistic sequence.
Step 02
Written proposal
Scope, deliverables, responsible lawyers, fee basis and assumptions — in one document.
Step 03
Execution with a tracker
Filings, authority questions and deadlines in a single status view your headquarters can read.
Step 04
Handover and calendar
Closing memo plus the compliance calendar for the next twelve months.
Fees
Three fee structures, chosen by the type of work
Fixed fee
For defined scopes: company formation, a licence application, a policy set, a work permit batch.
Capped fee
For due diligence and transactions where volume is uncertain but the budget is not.
Hourly or retainer
For ongoing counsel, disputes and unpredictable authority processes; monthly statements with detail.
FAQ
Before you engage counsel
How long does it take to set up a foreign-invested company?
For an unconditional activity with a clean lease and complete corporate documents, expect roughly 6 to 10 weeks from complete file to ERC. Conditional sectors, land-use or construction elements and legalisation of foreign documents extend that.
Do you also handle tax, accounting and payroll?
Yes, together with ECOVIS member firms in Vietnam, so one mandate can cover legal, tax, accounting and audit with a single point of contact.
Can you take over a project another adviser started?
Regularly. We begin with a short file review — what has been filed, what is missing, what carries risk — before proposing scope.
Will a partner actually work on the file?
Yes. Every mandate names the responsible partner in the proposal, and the partner remains the escalation point until handover.
Which languages do you work in?
English, German, Mandarin and Vietnamese. Filings are prepared in Vietnamese; advice and reporting in the language your headquarters uses.
Not sure which service applies? Describe the plan — we will map it.
Thirty minutes with a partner is usually enough to identify the licences, the sequence and a realistic timeline.