Corporate secretary services refer to the professional administration work that PLF provides as a support structure to our Clients – helping to reduce document processing time with higher accuracy.
Corporate Secretary
Corporate secretary services:
- Company seal keeping: PLF preserves the seal and monitors the stamping of documents at the Clients’ request;
- Preserving and managing documents: We scan and upload the e-copy of signed documents onto our CRM system so that our Clients can check and extract them easily.
How to proceed?
- Direct meetings with our team to clarify our Clients’ requirements and concerns regarding the document management;
- Provide a CRM account so our Clients can monitor the legal services and procedures as well as check, extract and upload documents at anytime and anywhere.
Thanh Bui (James)
Managing Partner
Lan Nguyen (Megan)
Senior Associate
Huong La (Anna)
Associate
Mai Le (Sica)
Junior Associate
Nguyen Nguyen (Tony)
Junior Associate
Canh Le (Billy)
Paralegal
Trinh Doan (Anna)
Senior Accountant
Y Phan (Rachel)
Accountant
Nguyen Banh (Mia)
Admin - HR
Thu Hua (Hana)
Communications Administrator
Ngan Ho (Isabel)
Communications Administrator
Most Frequent Questions & Answers
Finding expert guidance in our FAQs section, which address common concerns and provide insights into corporate legal, accounting, and secretarial matters.
Registering a 100% foreign-owned company in Vietnam is possible. However, foreign investment is subject to regulatory limitations applied on each specific business sector.
In most cases, investors shall implement the following steps to establish a company:
Step 1: Obtaining an Investment Registration Certificate, abbreviated IRC (if any non-Vietnamese investors).
Step 2: Obtaining an Enterprise Registration Certificate, abbreviated ERC or BRC for Business Registration Certificate.
The company is established but the following steps are required for regulatory compliance:
Step 3: Post establishment procedures.
Step 4: Obtaining sub-licenses (if any).
IRC stands for Investment Registration Certificate which shall be obtained (in most cases) when a foreign investor wants to set up a project (such as establishing a company) in Vietnam at the beginning.
ERC stands for the Enterprise Registration Certificate which every company in Vietnam must have. In other jurisdiction it is sometimes referred to as the “Incorporation Certificate” or “Company Certificate”.
Joint Stock Company (“JSC“) and Limited Liability Company (“LLC“) are the most common types of company in Vietnam since they offer the following advantages:
- Limitation in liabilities of their shareholders/ members/ proportionate to their capital contribution;
- Flexible management structure;
- Conversion from JSC to LLC and conversely is possible.
In general, there is no minimum capital required by law when registering a company in Vietnam. Only some conditional business sectors such as real estate trading, banking or education have specific capital requirements.
However, the capital shall be sufficient in light of the intended business sectors and scale of operation.
For non-conditional business sectors, we usually need from 6 to 8 weeks to setup a foreign-invested company and 1 week for a Vietnamese-invested one.
However, especially for foreign-owned companies, the time can be extended due to various reasons such as additional requirements from the licensing authorities.
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