Business Incorporation

The structure you choose at the outset determines what you can do later — which activities you may register, how profits are repatriated, whether a foreign investor can hold 100% of the charter capital, and how easily the entity can be sold or wound up.

Wise Counsel sets up companies, branches and representative offices for Vietnamese and foreign investors, from choosing the right vehicle through to receiving the licence and completing post-establishment registrations.

What we help with

• Advising on the appropriate entity type, ownership structure and charter capital
• Checking market access conditions and foreign ownership limits for the intended activities
• Preparing and filing the investment registration application for foreign investors
• Preparing charter documents, internal resolutions and the enterprise registration file
• Registering business lines, including conditional sectors requiring sub-licences
• Completing post-establishment steps — seal, tax code, bank account and labour registration
• Advising on the legal representative, resident requirements and management structure
• Setting up branches, representative offices and business locations

Getting the structure right at the start costs far less than restructuring later. We advise on the long-term consequences before the first application is filed.