The international financial centre in Vietnam is now a legal reality rather than a policy ambition. Resolution 222/2025/QH15, passed on 27 June 2025 and effective 1 September 2025, created it; Decree 323/2025/ND-CP of 18 December 2025 established it in 7 chapters and 23 articles; and Decision 2755/QD-TTg the same day appointed the Executive Council chaired…
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Analysis and practical guidance from IVLF Advisors LLC on Vietnamese law, foreign direct investment, M&A, capital markets, tax, labor and dispute resolution — written for investors and business leaders operating in Vietnam.
M&A regulations in Vietnam moved on several fronts in 2026, and the changes land in the least glamorous parts of a deal: which documents go into the file, which authority receives them, and how the money moves. None of it alters the commercial logic of buying a Vietnamese company. All of it alters the closing…
Foreign investment into Vietnam entered 2026 under a genuinely new legal architecture: the 2025 Investment Law, Decree 96/2026/ND-CP guiding it, Decree 168/2025/ND-CP on business registration with an amendment already drafted, and a two-tier local government model that changed which authority an investor deals with. This update pulls the pieces into one working picture for investors…
Business registration in Vietnam is about to get lighter. The Ministry of Finance released a draft decree in June 2026 amending Decree 168/2025/ND-CP, and the direction is unmistakable: fewer paper copies, more database lookups, and a fully digital front door through VNeID. For foreign investors incorporating here, one proposed change matters more than the rest…
Outbound investment from Vietnam has a new foreign exchange rulebook. Circular 34/2026/TT-NHNN, signed by the State Bank Governor on 30 June 2026 and effective 31 July 2026, runs to 9 chapters and 38 articles and replaces the previous framework for moving capital abroad. For Vietnamese groups expanding regionally, the changes are procedural but unforgiving –…
Restructuring consulting in Vietnam is bought in two different rooms: the boardroom planning a reorganisation while the business is healthy, and the workout table where creditors already circle. The disciplines overlap but the mandates differ sharply. This guide covers both – corporate reorganisation and distressed restructuring – and how companies choose the right team for…
Tax consulting in Vietnam splits into four distinct services – compliance, planning, transfer pricing and dispute defence – and the firms that sell them are not interchangeable. This guide explains what each service delivers for foreign-invested companies, when to buy it, and the selection tests that separate genuine tax consulting from form-filling with a premium…
Capital markets consulting in Vietnam covers the work between a company’s growth ambition and a completed securities transaction: IPO readiness, bond programmes, private placements and listings at home or abroad. Securities firms, auditors and law firms each sell a piece of it. This guide maps the full scope so issuers can buy the right pieces…
M&A consulting in Vietnam is a crowded label: global consulting firms, investment banks, Big Four transaction teams and law firms all sell it, and they mean different things by it. This guide explains what M&A consulting actually covers on Vietnamese deals, how the providers differ, and how buyers and sellers assemble the right team without…
Industrial park development in Vietnam is the quiet star of the FDI boom: every factory relocating from China needs serviced land, power and logistics, and the developers who assemble those ingredients earn returns ahead of most real estate classes. This guide covers the phases, the licence chain and the economics for foreign developers and investors….
Renewable energy projects in Vietnam are moving into a new phase: the feed-in-tariff era is over, the national power plan allocates enormous new solar, wind and storage capacity, and revenue now comes through negotiated power purchase agreements, auctions and direct corporate offtake. For investors, the opportunity is larger than the FIT boom – but the…
PPP projects are how Vietnam builds the infrastructure the state budget cannot fund alone – and since the PPP Law was amended to revive build-transfer contracts and widen investor protections, the pipeline has reopened across transport, water and energy. Here is the process from proposal to financial close, and the terms that decide whether a…