1. What is a corporate lawyer?

Corporate lawyers are defined as the ones who help businesses resolve all the legal issues related to that business. In the operational structure, the corporate lawyer plays a role of “legal and compliance department” of the enterprise which is responsible for controlling and resolving all legal issues arising in the process of operating the business related to customers (contracts, debts...), employees (salary, regime, insurance...), internal relationships (members/shareholders, reconciliation and development...), state agencies (licenses & administrative procedures, taxes...).

2. Enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City

Ho Chi Minh City is a centrally-run city of the special urban type of Vietnam. Located in the transition zone between the Southeast and Southwest, the city currently has 16 districts, 01 city and 05 districts, with a total area of 2,095 km2. As of May 2022, Ho Chi Minh City has the largest number of operating enterprises in the country (about 268,000 enterprises, accounting for 31%). In production and business activities, the practical requirement of all businesses is carrying out transactions and relations under the laws and practice, bringing the highest benefits; at the same time, preventing and resolving disputes effectively, and minimizing damage. Therefore, hiring Corporate Lawyer is an ideal solution to ensure legal safety and help businesses develop sustainably..

3. The Role of Corporate Lawyer in Ho Chi Minh City

Businesses in Ho Chi Minh City, whether large or small, all need a Corporate Lawyer who would assist them as a legal fulcrum. Enterprises should hire permanence lawyers to be consulted promptly to solve the problems arising in production and business activities or at least retain lawyers when drafting, negotiating, and signing contracts, especially large-value contracts. When contract performance begins to show signs of violation and disagreement emerges, the business has to have a lawyer on its side to be consulted in time to resolve the legal problem in its best interest. As such, a Corporate Lawyer in Ho Chi Minh City can:

• Helping businesses comply with the law

Corporate Lawyer in Ho Chi Minh City are permanently present in the operation of the business. This permanence helps Corporate Lawyer in Ho Chi Minh City quickly identify all different legal issues, such as violations or the risk of disputes, that may affect the operation of the business. A Corporate Lawyer in Ho Chi Minh City provides essential legal advice and guidance to help businesses get away of legal problems or avoid legal violation in the first place.

• Help businesses prevent legal risks, avoid lawsuits

Any business is vulnerable to disagreements with partners, workers, government agencies, or even internally. In such circumstances, the Corporate Lawyer in Ho Chi Minh City would offer sensible solutions, in good faith, mutually beneficial for the parties to reach an agreement without filling a lawsuit. This also helps businesses save time, effort, and money, allowing them to focus on business development.

• Help businesses avoid bad debts, recover outstanding debts

Bad debts are a financial burden on the business. Lawyers will help businesses from the first stage such as assessing the capacity of partners, negotiating to sign contracts, and monitoring the performance of contracts to reduce bad debts. In addition, there are many debts that the enterprises themselves cannot collect, so the participation of lawyers in assisting enterprises in collecting debts is necessary. With legal knowledge, experience, and necessary skills, Corporate Lawyer in Ho Chi Minh City will create more opportunities of successful bad debts recovery.

• Helping businesses grow strongly, brand positioning

A brand is an intangible asset that plays an extremely important role for each business; it is the factor that marks the success of the business in the market. In Vietnam in general and in Ho Chi Minh City in particular, Brand issues always receive much attention from businesses. A Corporate Lawyer in Ho Chi Minh City with solid professional knowledge and extensive experience in intellectual property issues, as well as protection of Trademarks (Trademarks) and other intellectual property objects, is a useful solution for businesses in Ho Chi Minh City to be able to build the most effective and sustainable development strategy along with improving the value of enterprises in the market.

4. Limitations of businesses that do not retain Corporate Lawyer in Ho Chi Minh City

Many businesses have not paid enough attention to legal issues in doing business and signing contracts. In many cases, due to a lack of legal knowledge, businesses have to bear the risk of suffering heavy losses that could have been avoided. In the absence of a corporate lawyer, a business can:

• Failing to comply properly and sufficiently with the provisions of law, facing legal constraints on administrative sanctions, criminal liability, etc.
• Failing to identify risks, failing to properly perform contracts/agreements with partners/customers, leading to fines, compensation for contracts...
• Failing to comply with contracts and regulations with employees, leading to disputes with employees;
• Unable to control and preserve the legitimate rights and interests of members/shareholders, leading to complicated disputes within the enterprise;
• Confounding or making hasty decisions when working with public authorities, customers and employees leads to not only the financial loss but also the declining reputation of the company.

5. Reasons to Hire a Corporate Lawyer in Ho Chi Minh City

Most businesses now set up departments/divisions or recruit specialized/part-time labelers to perform administrative/legal work. Depending on the size and business of the enterprise, it appears that the administrative and legal departments play an important role in helping to resolve the labor, administrative, and legal issues that arise every day. However, this department can hardly shoulder the responsibility of ensuring legal safety for all activities of the business, especially in complex disputes, or in other words, can’t replace the role of a lawyer, specifically:

• Enterprise lawyers have in-depth legal knowledge in the field of business, trade, labor, contract, and tax... approach the text quickly; think, identify and comprehensively solve complex legal problems, high thinking.
• Corporate lawyers act as a legal department. For small and medium enterprises, this is the optimal choice for businesses in terms of funding because businesses do not need to operate a multi-personal apparatus like the legal department but still receive professional advice from a team of experienced lawyers and experts.
• Corporate lawyers resolve disputes. Disputes are problems that may occur during the operation of an enterprise, disputes are often found in the fields of labor, goods trading, construction, borrowing, contract performance... When a dispute arises, the lawyer will be the one who can employ their education and aptitudes to handle it by making a judgment, mediation, drafting documents, negotiating, or participating in the Court/Arbitration to protect the interests of the business and minimizing the damages in the best way.

6. Criteria for selecting Corporate Lawyer in Ho Chi Minh City

Corporate Lawyer in Ho Chi Minh City who are dedicated, prestigious, and professional must meet the following important qualities:

• Being ethical and dedicated to the work, for the legitimate purpose of the client;
• Having extensive knowledge of corporate, commercial, labor, investment, contract, tax, and other related laws;
• Being high thinking,  being able to identify and solve complex legal problems comprehensively.
• Having deep knowledge and experience which accumulated in the process of consulting to solve corporate legal issues;
• Working with a dedicated team to be able to coordinate and support each other in the best way, thereby offering the optimal plan for clients;
• Understanding of the market and put professionalism first.

7. The task of Corporate Lawyer in Ho Chi Minh City

Corporate Lawyer in Ho Chi Minh City helps businesses in efficiently resolving problems and save risks, including the following main tasks:

1. Regular consulting services

• Consulting content:

• Counseling on investment, business, finance, action, administration, and tax at the request of the enterprise;
• Counseling on and drafting documents related to household management activities at the request of the enterprise;
• Counseling on, drafting, and adjusting economic contracts, civil contracts related to the production and business activities required by the enterprise;
• Counseling on legal and practical solutions for businesses in the process of negotiating and negotiating contracts with partners;
• Counseling on the guidelines, directions, and procedures for settlement related to contractual disputes between enterprises and partners;
• Counseling on legal issues arising in the course of business activities of the enterprise;
• Providing forms of administrative documents.

• Consulting form: For each consulting content, the corporate lawyer in Ho Chi Minh City and the client will agree to choose one of the following forms of consulting:

• Express the content of the consultation via email or delivery letter;
• telephone consultant

2. Case-by-case service

Corporate lawyers in Ho Chi Minh City provide services according to the case including but not limited to the following services:

• Representing clients in contacting the competent authorities to carry out the procedures related to the application for a license in Vietnam;
• Representing clients in resolving disputes arising out of the contract or related to the contract between the client and any third parties;
• Appointing an attorney and/or professional to represent or defend the legitimate rights and interests of the business before the Court or Arbitration Center;
• Debt recovery for businesses;
• Other legal services.

8. Phong & Partners Law Firm provides online corporate consultant lawyer service in Ho Chi Minh City

a. The convenience of using online corporate consultant lawyer service in Ho Chi Minh City

Many businesses are still reluctant to use Corporate consultant lawyer service for many for many reasons which include legal cost and time consuming. However, as analyzed, businesses want to develop sustainably in a safe and proactive legal corridor in all transactions with partners, customers, agencies, employees, indispensable role of Corporate Lawyer. At the same time, in the era of global Internet coverage, the online corporate consultant lawyer service of Phong & Partners in Ho Chi Minh City will solve problems of not only far geographical distance but also time consuming for businesses with the following advantages:

• Flexible with time, even available for consultation after hours;
• Flexible in terms of time, can even be consulted outside office hours;
• Does not depend on regional space;
• There are many choices of consulting lawyers. Thus, it is possible to find a lawyer with real professional capacity, experience, and ethics;
• Clients have the right to video and audio record the advice of lawyers;
• Many employees in the company can participate in listening to lawyers through Zoom or Google Meet;
• All information will be kept confidential;
• Be transparent about service fees.

b. 5 issues to do when using the services of Corporate Lawyer in the form of online

To ensure the quality of online lawyers, clients need to:

• Requesting a qualified and experienced lawyer to directly advise - request the service provider to provide sufficient information about the online lawyer;
• Requesting lawyers and law-practicing organizations to be responsible for consulting content;
• Requesting to be recorded, videotaped the entire consulting content;
• Agreeing on the online lawyer fee in advance;
• Refusing to receive advice when the consultant is not a lawyer or is not a lawyer that he/she has registered for advice.

c. Online consultation process at Phong & Partners Law Firm

When using online consulting services at Phong & Partners Law Firm, customers need to follow the following process:

• Step 1: Contact Phong & Partners Law Firm and book your appointment via:

Phone number: 0236.3822678 - 0905 503 678

Email: phongpartnerslaws@gmail.com

• Step 2: Client provides basic requirements and preliminary information related to the case.
• Step 3: The client will be provided a detailed consulting quotation.

Note: In case the client agrees to use the service,  proceeding to the next steps.

• Step 4: Clients pay consulting fees before scheduling their consulting appointment
• Step 5: The lawyer would consult online based on the client’s appointment schedule or send the consulting letter to the Clients.
• Step 6: Clients feedback on consulting results and fulfill payment obligations (if any).

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Phong & Partners Lawyer in Ho Chi Minh City
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Tel: 0905.503.678
Email: phongpartnerslaw.hcmc@gmail.com
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