Representative work, described the way clients remember it
Client names stay confidential. What we can show is the mandate, the obstacle, and what changed — so you can judge whether we have handled your situation before.
120+
Foreign-invested entities established or restructured by the team
90+
Countries covered through the ECOVIS International network
4
Working languages on file: English, German, Mandarin, Vietnamese
6–10
Typical weeks from a complete file to an issued ERC
Selected mandates
Six files that show how we work
Manufacturing
German automotive supplier, greenfield plant in the south
Industrial park lease · EPE status · 2024–2025
The situation
A tier-one supplier had signed a letter of intent on a plot before checking whether the park could support its planned export processing status and effluent load.
What we did
Renegotiated the lease and infrastructure annexes, secured EPE registration, and sequenced construction, fire-safety and environmental permits against the production start date.
Production started on the customer-committed date; duty exemptions applied from the first shipment.
Corporate & M&A
Acquisition of a majority stake in a local trading company
Legal due diligence · M&A approval · SPA
The situation
Diligence surfaced unregistered land use, informal employment arrangements and a related-party supply contract that carried the group's margin.
What we did
Rebuilt the risk register, converted findings into price adjustment and indemnity language, and ran the M&A approval and share-transfer filings.
Closed with a reduced purchase price and a 24-month escrow tied to the diligence findings.
Market entry
European software group, first Vietnamese entity
Structuring · IRC / ERC · data compliance
The situation
The group wanted a delivery centre quickly, but the intended business lines mixed unconditional IT services with conditional distribution activity.
What we did
Split the scope into an unconditional core plus a staged licence for the conditional line, and set up personal-data documentation before the first hire.
Entity operating in nine weeks; second-phase licence added without restructuring.
Employment
Workforce restructuring at a consumer-goods manufacturer
Labour plan · works consultation · terminations
The situation
Headquarters approved a 20% reduction on a European timeline that ignored Vietnamese consultation and notice requirements.
What we did
Built a lawful sequence — labour usage plan, union consultation, individual documentation — and trained local HR on the conversations.
Completed without labour authority sanction or a single claim reaching arbitration.
Compliance & data
Supply-chain due diligence for a German group under LkSG
Supplier audits · contract cascade · reporting
The situation
Twelve Vietnamese suppliers had to be assessed and contractually bound within one reporting year.
What we did
Localised the group's LkSG questionnaire, ran on-site legal reviews, and drafted a Vietnamese-law-compliant contract cascade with remediation clauses.
Reporting evidence delivered on time; two high-risk suppliers remediated rather than lost.
Disputes
Shareholder deadlock in a joint venture
VIAC arbitration · interim relief · settlement
The situation
A foreign partner was blocked from company records and the local partner had begun transferring customers to an affiliate.
What we did
Filed for arbitration with interim measures, secured document access, and reconstructed the diverted revenue through forensic review.
Settled with the foreign partner exiting at a valuation reflecting the recovered revenue.
Sector experience
Where our files come from
Most mandates arrive from European and East Asian manufacturers, their suppliers, and the service companies that follow them into Vietnam.
Automotive & electronics
Tier-one and tier-two suppliers following anchor customers into Vietnam.
Industrial & machinery
Plant projects, EPE structures, equipment imports and after-sales entities.
Consumer & retail
Distribution licences, franchising, product compliance and e-commerce.
Technology & services
Delivery centres, IT outsourcing, data protection and cross-border contracts.
Logistics & trading
Freight and warehousing structures, customs interfaces, agency arrangements.
Renewables & infrastructure
Project vehicles, land and permitting workstreams, offtake documentation.
What we are asked for
The three requests behind most mandates
Tell us honestly whether this structure works before the board approves the budget.
Typical first request — European industrial groups
The licence is issued and nobody knows what we owe every month.
Typical first request — companies two years post-entry
We need one adviser who talks to legal, tax and audit so headquarters gets one answer.
Typical first request — CFOs of mid-cap groups
Published case studies
Cross-border files, written up in full
Each of these is a complete write-up: the situation, the work and the outcome, published with the client’s agreement.
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