Industrial zone investment is the route roughly nine in ten foreign manufacturers take into Vietnam, and for good reason: the zone developer has already absorbed the planning, land clearance and infrastructure work that would otherwise consume the first two years of a greenfield project. What industrial zone investment removes from your critical path Four things….
Project termination is the outcome no sponsor plans for and many encounter. Decree 96/2026/ND-CP details the Law on Investment provisions governing when an investment project ends – voluntarily or by decision of the authority – and what happens to the land, the security and the assets when it does. How a project ends Three routes….
Project restructuring is what sponsors do when the project they licensed is no longer the project they are building. Scale changes, partners change, phases separate, capital is rescheduled – and the certificate, the land instrument and the corporate structure must be brought back into alignment with reality. Decree 96/2026/ND-CP supplies the mechanisms. The four tools…
Real estate project transfer is the most heavily conditioned transaction in Vietnamese practice. Unlike an ordinary investment project, a real estate project carries obligations to future purchasers as well as to the state, and the law responds by imposing conditions that must be satisfied before any transfer can complete. Why real estate project transfer is…
A land lease is how most foreign-invested projects in Vietnam obtain their site, and the terms of that lease determine what the project can be financed against, sold as, and extended into. Decree 96/2026/ND-CP makes the land position a condition of the investment registration certificate, which means the lease is not a post-licensing detail but…
Land use rights are the single most consequential asset in most Vietnamese investment projects, and the one foreign investors most often misunderstand. Vietnam does not grant freehold; the state holds land and grants rights to use it. Every project structure, financing and exit is built on that distinction. What land use rights actually confer A…
Project extension is the quiet crisis of Vietnamese investment. Every certificate records an operation period, and every sponsor whose project outlives it faces the same question far later than they should have: what happens when the term runs out. Decree 96/2026/ND-CP, effective 31 March 2026, details Article 44 of the Law on Investment governing the…
A project company – a single-purpose vehicle holding one investment project and nothing else – is the structure most Vietnamese infrastructure, energy and real estate transactions are built on. It is not required by law, but almost every financed project ends up with one, and understanding why explains a great deal about how Vietnamese deals…
Project merger consolidates two or more investment projects into one, and Decree 96/2026/ND-CP contains a provision that makes it far more attractive than sponsors generally assume: merged projects do not lose the different incentive entitlements they each carried. The incentive rule that makes project merger work Under Decree 96/2026, an investment project formed on the…
Project division is the tool that lets a sponsor separate a large investment project into distinct projects – to sell one component, finance another separately, or match ownership to different partners. Decree 96/2026/ND-CP governs it, and the rule on what happens to investment incentives after a division is unusually precise. When project division makes sense…