8 Important Steps Guide to Establish Company in Vietnam

8 Important Steps Guide to Establish Company in Vietnam

It is possible for foreign investors to establish company in Vietnam. Foreign investors have the right to choose the appropriate forms of enterprise such as a limited liability company, joint stock company... with particular steps including:

Step 1: Register the investment project to establish company in Vietnam

Investors submit a registration file for an investment project to the business registration office of the province, city, or management board of an industrial, export processing, or high-tech zone for approval within 15 days (without additional time for clarification).

Step 2: Apply for Certificate of investment registration

Investors can apply for a business registration certificate in Vietnam by submitting a valid record to the Department of Planning and Investment within ten days of the investment project's approval.

Step 3: Apply for the certificate of business registration

After obtaining the business registration certificate, the investor shall submit the application for enterprise registration certificate to the enterprise registration office within 3 days.

Step 4: Publish the content of the business registration

Within 30 days of receiving the certificate of enterprise registration, the investor is required to disclose the following information about the company on the national enterprise registration portal:

i, Business lines;

ii, List of founding shareholders and shareholders being foreign investors for joint-stock companies.

Step 5: Registered business stamp

The form, quantity, and contents of the company's stamp are entirely up to the business. The following information must be displayed in the stamp's content:

-Company’s name;

-Business code.

After receiving the legal entity stamp and before using the business stamp, the enterprise must send a notice on the stamp of the enterprise to the business registration office for publication in the National Information Portal on the business registration.

Step 6: Notice of use of stamp

Investors send notices on use of stamp forms to the Investment registration agency after getting a stamp. The Investment registration agency stamps samples of businesses, branches, and representative offices for businesses, publishes the business's notice on the National Business Information Portal, and issues a receipt for the business following receipt of the record.

Step 7: Open bank account

Financial backers need to open two sorts of ledgers, to be specific the speculation capital record to get the venture sum and the exchange represent going through with everyday exchange in Vietnam.

Step 8: The post licensing procedures

For the conditional business lines:

Investors investing in conditional business lines as defined in Appendix 4 of the Investment Law 2014 are required to have professional liability insurance, a certificate of business qualification, practicing certificates, and other documentation… prior to directing business in Vietnam.