LEADCO – Vietnam Legal Counsellors is a full-service law firm, providing a wide
variety of legal services for both individuals and business/organizations in Vietnam and abroad.

The firm was established in 1992 as one of the first law firms operating in Vietnam since the Renovation “Doi Moi” policy.

In Vietnam, LEADCO ranks among top leading local law firms. Professionalism, excellence and high commitment have made us the firm of choice for many leading companies, law firms, and organizations in Vietnam and over the world. The Firm’s business criteria are to maintain the highest ethical standards to Clients.

Thanks to teaming up a group of consultants who are profound and experienced in
various areas of business consultancy and legal practices, LEADCO has confirmed its own
position and capability in offering wide-range professional consultancy services as
follows:

• Legal Practice
• Business Consultation and Project Development
• Intellectual Property (IP) Agent

Over the past few years, LEADCO has always given priority to constantly improve its
staff’s professional skills and expertise by sending its lawyers to overseas training courses and seminars to equip them with up-to-date international practices. LEADCO
has also set up and maintained a network of specialists in different fields to complement its dynamic team.

The staff at LEADCO enjoys equal opportunity and encouragement to expand their knowledge and experience. LEADCO is always able to form highly flexible and effective teams of lawyers, specialists, and paralegals.

The management manner of LEADCO is progressive, transparent, and concentrated on creating value for Clients while providing an energetic and efficient working environment for its staff.

Areas of Practice and Services

With the aim at providing effective and efficient legal services with the highest standards of professionalism and integrity for Clients, LEADCO remains in the position as a leading firm among Vietnamese law firms.

Having worked with such diversified Clients, and with a strong team and depth of expertise, LEADCO is able to offer a full range of consultation services to Clients. We focus on the following areas of practice and services:

Legal Practice

• Foreign investment and Cross-border investment
• Tax, banking, securities and investment trust
• Land, construction and real estate development
• Corporate and commercial issues
• Privatization and corporate restructuring
• Labor and employment
• Litigation and arbitration

In this field, we offer a full range of legal services to Clients as well as deliver strategic advice to help Clients achieve their business goals.

Services

• Providing Clients with legal advice and necessary supports to set up business;
• Drafting and/or reviewing business documents, including contracts and agreements in compliance with laws and regulations of Vietnam;
• Providing Clients with legal advice and supports to effectively carry out the administrative procedures in fields of land use right certificate, business licenses, expatriate labors, banking loans, etc.;
• Offering Clients legal supports to restructure business organizations, including mergers and acquisitions, securitization, holding company and acquiring shares in domestic enterprises;
• Offering retainer legal consultancy service to help Clients effectively deal with problems and obstacles in the course of their doing business;
• Supplying in-house lawyers, advisors and solicitors to Clients to timely deal with internal matters arising from corporate management and daily business;
• Studying on the Vietnamese laws, legal system and environment in legislative reform projects;
• Conducting studies on business law and legal environment of other countries in order to assist domestic enterprises to expand their business abroad safely and legally;
• Representing or assisting Clients in negotiation and intermediation process to settle the disputes arising from businesses;
• Being attorney at law to protect legitimate rights and interests of Clients in progress of settling disputes at the Courts or Arbitration

Business Consultation and Project Development

• Foreign and domestic projects
• Market/sectoral surveys/report
• Feasibility study and due diligent report
• Official Development Assistance (ODA) projects and projects funded by NGO’s and Aid Agencies
• Legal reform and capacity building projects for the Vietnamese Government
• Institutional/legal research and analyses

Particularly, in the business consultation and development-related area, LEADCO has accumulated a lot of experiences and achievements from utilizing our strengths in business management, legal expertise in legal reform projects and studies, along with good relationships with both INGO’s/aid agencies and Governmental agencies. Hereunder is a demonstration of our typical services.

Services

• Providing consultation and introduction to foreign investors on legal system, investment and business environment in Vietnam;
• Conducing the legal, sectoral and market studies and researches to assist clients identifying and seeking the most appropriate business opportunities and partners;
• Assisting Clients to set up investment projects, including identification of the needs of investment, analysis of prevailing local policies and investment promotion, preparing documents, etc.;
• Recommending and introducing potential projects calling for investments; recommending suitable IZ’s, EPZ’s and Open Economic Zone, and potential partners;
• Assisting foreign investors and/or their local counterparts to carry out the administrative procedure to obtain the Certificate of Investment and run projects in Vietnam;
• Providing a wide-range of investment support services, including due diligence reports, feasibility-study reports and EIA;
• Assisting Clients to set up and implement the most appropriate public relation strategy for business promotion;
• Participating in ODA and Technical Assistance on institutional reform, legislative building, capacity building, literature review, legal research and socio-economic survey, etc.;
• Supplying qualified independent consultants or services to ODA and TA Projects wholly or partly in a period of project cycle;
• Executing independent researches, supervision, monitoring, analyzing and evaluating toward ODA and TA projects.

Intellectual Property (“IP”) Agent

• Trademarks, Industrial Design, Patents, Utility Solutions, Copyright, Appellations of Origin, Domain names, Geographical indication
• Licensing and Technology Transfer
• Franchising and distribution
• Trade secrets and unfair competition
• IP enforcement and litigation

Our Intellectual Property division deals with all aspects of IP rights in Vietnam. With extensive legal and technical experience of our patent & trademark attorneys and a fully computerized IP management system, the Firm is able to offer superior services to Clients at competitive rates.

Services:

• Searching registrations of Trademarks, Patents, Utility Solutions, Industrial Designs;
• Advising and representing Clients to file applications for registration of IP objectives in Vietnam and in foreign countries, including: Trademarks, Patents, Utility Solutions, Industrial Designs, Appellations of Origin, Copyright, Domain names;
• Advising and representing Clients in disputes related to IP rights in litigation;
• Drafting, reviewing and advising on contracts of Licensing, Technology Transfer, Franchising and Distribution;
• Providing consultation and taking enforcement for protection of trade secrets and for fighting against unfair competition, counterfeit and infringement;
• Providing advice on matters related to copyright and neighboring rights.

Primary ILN Contact:

PHAN NGUYEN TOAN Email: pntoanleadco@hn.vnn.vn

For further information about the firm and its members, please visit the firm website at http://www.leadco.vn