Vietnam is undertaking a major overhaul of its competition law framework to bring it into line with current international practice The fifth draft Law on Competition has been submitted to the Standing Committee of the National Assembly for review ...

Recent years have seen players in the Vietnamese banking sector making extensive efforts to recover non-performing loans or bad debts The Government has issued new regulations to improve the processes for recovering and handling bad debt in Vietnam and has implemented a framework to facilitate the ...

A decree that aims to improve the corporate governance regime for public companies in Vietnam has been issued and comes into effect August 2017 Our team reports on the key changes ...

Various new foreign exchange regulations governing the use of all types of foreign currency accounts including investment accounts of Vietnamese enterprises and their investors have recently come into effect The changes will affect current and potential foreign investors as well as foreign-invested ...

Allens has advised Healthscope Limited, one of Australia's leading private healthcare operators, on the sale of its Asian pathology operations in Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam to funds managed by ...

Vietnam's adoption of the new Law on Land 2013 will have several implications for foreign investors. ...

Dismissing employees whether for under-performance or misconduct has always been a difficult task in Vietnam given the strongly pro-employee labour legislation However the Government has recently issued new legislation in an attempt to level the playing field and create a clearer avenue for ...

A new Law on Enterprises aimed at making it easier to do business in Vietnam implements key changes to the regulation of all companies operating in Vietnam and will allow companies greater freedom in the activities they may conduct Partners Linh Bui and Robert Fish Senior Associate Chi Ha and ...

The long-anticipated changes to the rules on foreign investment in Vietnamese credit institutions allowing greater levels of foreign investment particularly in the case of weak banks will soon come into effect Partner Robert Fish and Senior Associate Linh Bui report ...

Allens has been awarded the title of Vietnam Law Firm of the Year for 2015 by leading international legal directory Chambers Global. The award was announced at a ceremony in Hong Kong last night. T ...