Vietnam Business Merger and Acquisition (M&A) Forum in 2020 was held with the theme “Rising in a new normal state”. The M&A Forum 2020 offers many perspectives on Vietnam’s M&A market in the past year and prospects for the coming year. Will the M&A wave explode in Vietnam in 2021? Legal change in 2021 In…
New investment channels such as Forex, cryptocurrencies are attracting a lot of attention from investors. Although there are many life-changing opportunities, investing in these investment channels still has many risks. Therefore, the addition of legal provisions related to this investment channel is very important. There are still loopholes in the legal regulations, and the problem…
In 2019-2020, real estate, banking, agriculture, retailing are the Vietnam M&A most attractive fields. Masan’s transactions were nominated as the most featured transactions in the year. The article shall figure out 10 featured M&A cases in 2019-2020. Within the topic “Arise in the new normal” in Vietnam 2020 M&A forum, organizers and the council have…
Pursuant to Article 70 of the Law on Foreign Trade Management regarding the order, procedure of investigation into the trade defense case and Article 79 of the Law on Foreign Trade Management regarding bases for investigating to the application of anti-dumping measures, dated December 11st, 2020, the Ministry of Industry and Trade issued Decision No….
According to experts at the Vietnam M&A Forum on November 24, the Vietnam merger-acquisition (M&A) market in the near future will strongly recover as investors are in a “hidden” stage to wait for some necessary conditions. Positive prospects According to the Vietnam M&A Market Report 2019 – 2020, in the period of 6/2019 – 10/2020,…
Mr. Masataka Sam Yoshida, Global Director of cross-border M&A transactions company, RECOF Corporation, said that in the M&A trend of Japanese investors in Southeast Asia, Vietnam achieved the highest number of deals with 33 deals in 2019. 1.5 times higher than the previous year. Vietnam M&A Forum 2020 with the theme Rising in a new…
E-commerce is flourishing while new investment channels are blooming and becoming more attractive to investors. However, Pham Duy Khuong, managing director of ASL Law warns investors of the risks and consequences of emerging investment channels including Forex. The forex market is a decentralised global market for the trading of currencies, with the nature of forex…
Lawyer Pham Duy Khuong of ASL LAW joined the first session of the Vietnam M&A Forum 2020 with other lawyers and experts sharing their thoughts about the opportunities and challenges of Vietnam’s M&A market in the new normal. Phan Duc Hieu, deputy head, Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) One factor driving M&A activities is…
In order to transform the world energy industry into a clean energy economy, renewable energy technologies must be provided globally. However, globalize clean energy sources is not an easy target to reach. A recent obstacle of this industry is the barrier of the intellectual property system which makes access to clean energy in developing countries…
The rapidly increasing number of franchisees in many sectors will go against the core principle of a standard franchise model. This issue causes many legal risks to the development of franchise in Vietnam. With the development of e-commerce, new investment channels have appeared. They are becoming more diverse and more attractive to investors when traditional…