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Vietnam

Our range of advisory services

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.

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  • 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 

  • Company secretarial services
  • Financial accounting and reporting
  • Payment processing
  • Human resources and payroll accounting
Awards
Legal500 Top Tier 2026
Chambers Europe 2025
Legal500 Top Kanzlei 2025
The Lawyer European Awards 2024 - Law Firm of the Year: Germany
Juve Awards 2024 - "Law Firm of the Year Regulatory Law"
Chambers Europe 2024
Legal500 Top Kanzlei 2024
Legal500 Green Guide EMEA 2024
Juve Awards 2023 - "Law Firm of the Year Public Procurement"
Juve Awards 2023 - "Law Firm of the Year Distribution, Trade & Logistics"
Chambers Europe 2023
Legal500 Top Tier 2023
Juve Award 2022 - "Kanzlei des Jahres Südwesten"
azur Award 2022
Chambers Europe 2022
Legal500 Top Tier 2022
European Law Firm of the Year
Chambers EUR 2021
Legal 500 Top Tier 2021
PMN Management Awards 2020
PMN Management Awards 2020
Chambers EUR 2020
Legal Tech Kanzlei
Legal 500
Juve Award 2019 - "Law Firm of the Year 2019"
PMN Management Awards 2019