Message from Director General Francis Gurry World Intellectual Property Day - April 26, 2013
April 26 is World Intellectual Property Day. This year our theme is Creativity – The Next Generation. Creativity is common to the whole of humanity. Whoever we are, wherever we live, whatever our circumstances, we all have the capacity to create. And it is this human creativity and inventiveness that is responsible for improving our […]
Panera Bread choose SB Law as the legal service partner in Vietnam
Panera Bread is the leading food corporation over the world. Under the assessment of Fortune magazine, Panera Bread is ranked 50th in the reputable global company list. In the food industry, Panera Bread is ranked 5th, after Starbucks, McDonald’s, Yum! Brands, Chipotle and Cheesecake Factory. In 2013, this has been the first time that Panera […]
The representative of SB Law attended the Law Conference on Campus International Asie 2013
On the occasion of celebration of French year in Vietnam and 40-year anniversary of establishment of foreign affair between France and Vietnam, the Bar Association of Paris held the international law conference in Ho Chi Minh city. The main topic of the conference focused on the experiences of judicial reforming in Vietnam and France, the […]
World Bank Group: World Bank to Support Vietnam’s Reforms to Gain Economic Competitiveness
The World Bank Board of directors today approved the first Economic Management and Competitiveness Credit for Vietnam, EMCC 1, to help the country with economic management reforms for higher productivity and competitiveness. The EMCC 1, the first of a series of three operations, provides $ 250 million concessional financing to support reforms in seven policy […]
Foreign investors eye city's metro lines
The metro projects 3a, 3b, 4 and 6 in HCM City have caught the attention of many foreign investors, according to the HCM City Management Authority for Urban Railways. The city plans to develop seven metro lines from now to 2020. Except Metro Line No. 1 (Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien) and Metro Line No. 2 (Ben […]
Experience of SB Law in the field of foreign investment consultancy
With a strong team of more than 30 lawyers functioning under the leadership and guidance of the six partners, who have to their individual credit a strong background and exposure to a wide variety of corporate and commercial practice and intellectual property rights practice spanning for a decade, SBLAW has leveraged this experience and the […]
Property market remains in a fix
The property market remains gloomy and requires combined efforts by relevant players, including a restructure of investments by developers to recover, analysts said. Le Hoang Chau, chairman of the HCM City Real Estate Association, said the large inventory and bad debts by property companies are the most serious problems."To resolve them, developers must first of […]
Government to reduce corporate income tax
A proposal to reduce corporate income taxes was raised during a discussion about amendments in the Corporate Income Tax Law on March 18.Currently, a flat 25 percent income tax rate is applied to businesses of all types. The NA Finance and Budget Committee suggested that there be a tax reduction schedule through the year 2020 […]
Vietnam Issues Circular Guiding Establishment of ETFs
The Ministry of Finance has issued Circular 229/2012/TT-BTC guiding establishment and management of Exchange-traded fund, the document will become effective from September 1, 2013.ETF share will have par value of VND10,000 each and its minimum trading unit (creation unit) is 100,000 shares, used for portfolio swap among ETFs and founding members, investors. For stock index […]