International Law Firm in Vietnam

ANT Lawyers is an international law firm in Vietnam with international standards, recognized by Legal500, IFLR1000.

 

ANT Lawyers is Vietnam exclusive member of Prae Legal, an international law firm network, providing full ranges of legal services

Prae Legal Network provides clients with access to global legal resources through its vast network of well-established 242 law offices in trade centers in 129 countries.

Our respectable and influential professionals are experienced in all fields of law. We are ready to provide legal solutions to companies and people all around the world for their legal needs. We can help when you would do business transactions in the most challenging parts of the world.

Prae Legal provides comprehensive legal expertise in almost all major practice and industry areas. We have general and subject specific legal expertise that could be applied to different needs of each industry. An industry will be interested in legal developments affecting its own business and legal environment.

Vietnam International Law Firm

Together with global law firm partners, ANT Lawyers has the capability to provide in depth legal assistance in the following practice areas:

-Agricultural & Agribusiness

-Antitrust, Competition and Trade Group

-Automotive

-Aviation

-Banking and Financial Services

-Business Crimes and Compliance

-Capital Markets

-Construction and Infrastructure

-Corporate Organizations and Securities

-Employee Benefits and Pensions

-Employment and Labor Law

-Energy and Natural Resources

-Environmental

-Government Affairs

-Health Care Industries

-Immigration

-Insolvency, Bankruptcy and Restructuring

-Insurance and Reinsurance

-Intellectual Property

-Life Sciences

-Litigation, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution

-Media, Entertainment and Sports

-Mergers and Acquisitions

-Private Equity

-Project Finance

-Real Estate

-Tax

-Technology, Outsourcing and Privacy

-Telecommunications

-Products Liability and Toxic Tort

-Trademarks, Copyrights, Trade Secrets and Unfair Competition

-Product Liability and Product Safety

-Cross-Border Transactions

-E-Commerce & Technology

-Product Liability and Product Safety

ANT Lawyers is a law firm in Vietnam with English speaking lawyers, located in the business centers of Hanoi, Danang and Ho Chi Minh City to provide convenient access to our clients. Please contact us via email ant@antlawyers.vn or call our office at +84 28 730 86 529 for legal service in Vietnam

 

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Anti-dumping of Goods Imported to Vietnam

Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Vietnam has carried out investigations to apply anti-dumping measures against some commodities imported into Vietnam.

The law of Vietnam also has a number of law documents governing this matter in detail. Specifically, ordinance No. 20/2004/PL-UBTVQH11 issued on April 29th, 2004 of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly and the Decree No. 90/2005/ND-CP issued on July 11th, 2005 governs the anti-dumping matters and the regulations on the implementation of several articles of the ordinance on anti-dumping of goods imported to Vietnam.

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In terms of content, ordinance 20/2004 regulating the anti-dumping measures; procedures, contents of investigation for application and the application of such measures against dumped goods imported into Vietnam. Decree 90/2005 regulating the implementation of some articles of the Ordinance 20/2004 on the anti-dumping investigation agency, the Council that handling anti-dumping cases; procedures, contents of investigation and the application of anti-dumping measures to goods imported into Vietnam.

On December 24th, 2015, Ministry of Industry and Trade of Vietnam has received written request from 4 Vietnam companies about applying anti-dumping measures to galvanized steel products imported into Vietnam from People’s Republic of China (including Hong Kong) and South Korea.

The requesting parties (4 Vietnam companies) believe that quantity and prices of the product under investigation and other factors have created negative impact their goods consumption, leaded to negative effects on production activities; for example, domestic goods’ market share has decreased, loss ratio has increased, price of domestic products has fell and inventory has risen… Moreover, increasing import products brings about damage to domestic industry. Hence, an investigation has been implemented by the investigation agency, which is the Vietnam Competition Authority (VCA), under the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The VCA will publicly hold a consultation with related parties before finishing the investigation stage. The Vietnam Ministry of Industry and Trade will apply anti-dumping tax which comes into effect retroactively in order to prevent the considerable increase of dumping goods in Vietnam that have caused damages to the domestic industry.

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Renew the validity of protection titles to subject matter of industrial property

According to the Law on Intellectual Property in Vietnam, the subject matter of industrial property rights shall comprise inventions, industrial designs, designs of semi-conducting closed circuits, trade secrets, marks, trade names and geographical indications.

Rights to an invention, industrial design, layout design, mark shall be established on the basis of a decision of Intellectual Property Office of Vietnam to grant a protection title in Vietnam or the recognition of international registration pursuant to an international treaty of which Vietnam is a member. The remaining being: (i) rights to trade name shall be established on the basis of lawful use thereof; (ii) rights to a trade secret shall be established on the basis of lawful acquirement of the trade secret and maintaining confidentiality thereof.

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How are term and scope of protection of the right to an arising object on the basis of granting of a protection title?

Firstly, protection titles shall be valid throughout the entire territory of Vietnam. This provision means the validity of title is only territorial. It means titiles granted by any country will only take effect within its territory and are not accepted in other countries or other titles granted by Intellectual Property Office of Vietnam will take effect throughout the entire territory of Vietnam.

Secondly, regarding each industrial property object, validity of protection titles are different. Such as validity of the invention patent is 20 years from the grant date but the timeline to calculate until the end of 20 protection years is filing date. Regarding utility solution patent, the validity shall be 10 years and the calculation until the end of 10 years is same as calculation of invention patent. It should be noted that validity of invention patent and utility solution patent may not be extended. However, industrial design patent, certificate of registered mark may be extended. In particular: (i) industrial design patent shall be shall be valid from the grant date until the end of five years after the filing date and may be extended consecutively with each time of 5 years. Therefore, industrial design patent may be extended up to 15 years; (ii) certificate of registered mark shall be valid from the grant date until the end of ten years after the filing date. However, this object has a special feature that it is able to extend repeatedly and consecutively the validity with each time of 10 years. Therefore, this object may be extended validity forever.

Regarding certificate of registered geographical indication, it shall have indefinite validity starting from the grant date because of its characteristic of sign used to identify a product as originating from a specific region, locality, territory or country. Reputation of products bearing a geographical indication shall be determined by graphical conditions, including natural factors (climatic, hydrological, geological, topographical and ecological factors and other natural conditions); Human factors (skills and expertise of producers, and traditional production processes of localities…).

In addition, one of objects having specific validity is certificate of registered design of semi-conducting closed circuits. Certificate shall be valid from the grant date until the earliest date among the following: (i) the end of ten years after the filing date; (ii) the end of ten years after the date the layout design was first commercially exploited anywhere in the world by a persons with the registration right or his or her licensee; (iii) the end of fifteen years after the date of creation of the layout design.

Having said that, when the owner of industrial property object is granted protection title, it should be noted at time of expiration of title to apply for the extension in order to guarantee interests as well as benefits that industrial property objects brings. The owner could contact IP department of ANT Lawyers and patent, trademark and other IP attorney will be assisting the client to review the matters and provide relevant advice.

How ANT Lawyers Could Help Your Business?

The changes of laws will be monitored by ANT Lawyers. For advice or service request, please contact us via email ant@antlawyers.vn or call +84 28 730 86 529

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ANT Lawyers Joined with International Law Firms in Hong Kong on Dec 7th, 2018

In order to meet the legal demand arising from oversea investors, ANT Lawyers representative, Managing Partner Mr Tuan Nguyen has signed cooperation agreement with other international law firms in Hong Kong on Dec 7th, 2018 to provide legal support and service across numerous countries.

The lawyers are from Hong Kong SAR, the United Kingdom, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan, Macau, China (Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu) have met up and discussed cooperation plan. The cooperation is expected create a platform for communication and cooperation to provide legal support and services to global enterprises, optimizing the business environment, promoting interconnection, investment and trade cooperation. At the formal event, the eleven representatives of the participated international law firm signed the Memorandum of Understanding, and promised to strengthen legal cooperation and exchanges in policy analysis, legal research, and legal services to provide comprehensive services for investors.

The cooperation signing ceremony was participated by the representatives of Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (“HKSAR”) and the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, the governors, members and other professionals to witness this important moment. Ms. Tan Huizhu – Deputy Director of the Basic Law Committee of the HKSAR; GBM, GBS, JP and Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress – Mr. Tan Yaozong; GBM, GBS, JP and Vice Minister Vice Minister of Legal Department of Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the HKSAR – Mr. Liu Chunhua attended the ceremony as guest.

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Business Lines in the Food Industry of Vietnam

With a population of about 90 million people, Vietnam is a potential market for food industry.

ANT Lawyers Co., Ltd consults and instructs customers to register the appropriate lines of business in the food sector under the provisions of the code system of national economic sector (Decision 10/2007/QD-TTg).

No	Business lines	Code
1	Wholesale of agricultural and forestry raw materials (except wood, bamboo) and live animals;	4620
2	Wholesale of rice;	4631
3	Wholesale of food;	4632
4	Wholesale of beverage;	4633
5	Wholesale of a variety of goods;	4690
6	Retail of victuals, food, beverage, tobacco and pipe tobacco accounting for a large proportion in shops;	4711
7	Retail of victuals in specialized shops;	4721
8	Retail of food in specialized shops;	4722
9	Retail of victuals, food, beverage, tobacco, pipe tobacco in the market;	4781

ANT Lawyers is Vietnam exclusive member of Prae Legal, an international law firm network, providing full ranges of legal services in Vietnam

For Vietnam legal matters or services, the clients could reach ANT Lawyers, the exclusive Vietnam law firm members via email at ant@antlawyers.vn or call the telephone at +848 35202779.

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International law firm in Vietnam

ANT Lawyers is Vietnam exclusive member of Prae Legal, an international law firm network.

International Law Firm Networks

Prae Legal Network provides clients with access to global legal resources through its vast network of well-established 242 law offices in trade centers in 129 countries.

Our respectable and influential professionals are experienced in all fields of law. We are ready to provide legal solutions to companies and people all around the world for their legal needs. We can help when you would do business transactions in the most challenging parts of the world.

Prae Legal provides comprehensive legal expertise in almost all major practice and industry areas. We have general and subject specific legal expertise that could be applied to different needs of each industry. An industry will be interested in legal developments affecting its own business and legal environment.
For Vietnam legal matters or services, the client could reach the Vietnam law firm members via email at vietnam@praelegal.com or ant@antlawyers.vn or contact the Vietnam law firm member directly via office telephone at +848 35202779.
We have the ability to provide in depth legal assistance in the following practice areas:

• Agricultural & Agribusiness
• Antitrust, Competition and Trade Group
• Automotive
• Aviation
• Banking and Financial Services
• Business Crimes and Compliance
• Capital Markets
• Construction and Infrastructure
• Corporate Organizations and Securities
• Employee Benefits and Pensions
• Employment and Labor Law
• Energy and Natural Resources
• Environmental
• Government Affairs
• Health Care Industries
• Immigration
• Insolvency, Bankruptcy and Restructuring
• Insurance and Reinsurance
• Intellectual Property
• Life Sciences
• Litigation, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution
• Media, Entertainment and Sports
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Private Equity
• Project Finance
• Real Estate
• Tax
• Technology, Outsourcing and Privacy
• Telecommunications
• Products Liability and Toxic Tort
• Trademarks, Copyrights, Trade Secrets and Unfair Competition
• Product Liability and Product Safety
• Cross-Border Transactions
• E-Commerce & Technology
• Product Liability and Product Safety
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ANT Lawyers is a Vietnam law firm with international standards, recognized by IFLR1000 on Financial and Corporate practice.  We are an exclusive Vietnam member of Prae Legal, the global law firm network covering more than 150 jurisdictions.  The firm provides a range of legal services as following to multinational and domestic clients.

Commercial
Dispute Resolution
Debt Recovery
Employment
Foreign Investment
Intellectual Property
International Trade and Taxes
Infrastructure and Project
Civil Matter

This publication is designed to provide updated information of legal matters, and does not constitute professional advice.

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International law firm in Vietnam

ANT Lawyers is Vietnam exclusive member of Prae Legal, an international law firm network.

International law firm in Vietnam 

Prae Legal Network provides clients with access to global legal resources through its vast network of well-established 242 law offices in trade centers in129 countries.
Our respectable and influential professionals are experienced in all fields of law. We are ready to provide legal solutions to companies and people all around the world for their legal needs. We can help when you would do business transactions in the most challenging parts of the world.
Prae Legal provides comprehensive legal expertise in almost all major practice and industry areas. We have general and subject specific legal expertise that could be applied to different needs of each industry. An industry will be interested in legal developments affecting its own business and legal environment.
For Vietnam legal matters or services, the client could reach the Vietnam law firm members via email at vietnam@praelegal.com or ant@antlawyers.vn or contact the Vietnam law firm member directly via office telephone at +848 35202779.
We have the ability to provide in depth legal assistance in the following practice areas:

Agricultural & Agribusiness
Antitrust, Competition and Trade Group
Automotive
Aviation
Banking and Financial Services
Business Crimes and Compliance
Capital Markets
Construction and Infrastructure
Corporate Organizations and Securities
Employee Benefits and Pensions
Employment and Labor Law
Energy and Natural Resources
Environmental
Government Affairs
Health Care Industries
Immigration
Insolvency, Bankruptcy and Restructuring
Insurance and Reinsurance
Intellectual Property
Life Sciences
Litigation, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution
Media, Entertainment and Sports
Mergers and Acquisitions
Private Equity
Project Finance
Real Estate
Tax
Technology, Outsourcing and Privacy
Telecommunications
Products Liability and Toxic Tort
Trademarks, Copyrights, Trade Secrets and Unfair Competition
Product Liability and Product Safety
Cross-Border Transactions
E-Commerce & Technology
Product Liability and Product Safety

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