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A decree guiding the implementation of the Enterprise Law usually has a relatively long lifespan before it needs to be amended. Therefore, the Government's issuance of Decree No. 296/2026/ND-CP (Decree 296) only about a year after the effective date of Decree No. 168/2025/ND-CP (Decree 168) has attracted the attention of the business and legal community in Vietnam.
Changing the address of the head office is often considered one of the simplest procedures in the life cycle of a business. However, for enterprises engaged in conditional industries, a change that seems to be related to only one line of address on the Enterprise Registration Certificate (ERC) can cause the application for a license to be returned, goods cannot be cleared from customs and business activities to be interrupted.
Following Part 1, after clarifying the rationale and professional pressures that are being placed on lawyers in Vietnam, Part 2 of the article continues to approach the issue from a policy and institutional perspective. On the basis of referring to international experience, the article analyzes the gaps in the Draft Law on Lawyers (amended) in 2026 and proposes recommendations to build a safe, healthy and sustainable legal practice environment.
In the process of building the Socialist State under the rule of law in Vietnam, the team of lawyers has increasingly played a central role in protecting justice, human rights and legitimate interests of individuals and organizations. However, along with that development is a significant increase in occupational pressure, from competitive pressure, revenue pressure, professional responsibility pressure to digital transformation pressure
During the discussion session at the National Assembly on November 25, 2025, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh stated the orientation to review and tighten the conditions for opening majors for a number of specific fields such as medicine and law in order to concentrate training resources at qualified institutions. Behind this orientation is a bigger question: how to ensure the quality of human resources in professions where professional errors can directly affect the legitimate rights and interests of people and organizations .
Determining the Foreign Ownership Limit (FOL) has long ceased to be a technical issue for public companies. For many businesses, FOL can determine the ability to attract strategic investors, expand international capital, or even influence future capital raising plans. However, this is also one of the contents that makes businesses confused in the process of complying with the current securities law .
Today, competition between businesses takes place not only in product quality but also in the ability to occupy consumer perception. Therefore, phrases such as "No. 1 in Vietnam", "unique in the market", "best solution", "leading brand", "No.1", "leading brand" or "best choice" appear more and more popular in advertising campaigns.
The Law on High Technology 2025 (effective from July 1, 2026) identifies the development of high technology and strategic technology as a strategic breakthrough for rapid and sustainable socio-economic development and improving national technological autonomy. On that basis, the Draft Decree detailing a number of articles and measures for the implementation of the Law on High Technology ("Draft") continues to concretize many important contents related to high-tech research and development, high-tech enterprises, high-tech research and development centers, etc hi-tech parks, as well as the state management mechanism for high-tech activities. In general, the Draft shows that Vietnam not only wants to attract investment or application of high technology, but also aims to gradually master, exploit and commercialize technology.
When the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 21/2026/QD-TTg on the list of strategic technologies and the list of strategic technology products , many people may see this as a mere technical document to identify priority areas for investment and development support. However, if we look deeper into the structure of the list, the accompanying explanatory reports and the "big problems" proposed by ministries and sectors, it can be seen that this is actually a relatively clear outline of the development model that Vietnam is aiming for in the coming decades.
In corporate legal consultancy activities, legal opinion/advisory memorandum is often considered as the "final product" showing the professional capacity of lawyers and law firms. It is not only a written response to a legal question, but also a basis for businesses to make decisions on management, investment, transaction or risk handling.
For many years, reforming investment and business conditions has always been considered one of the important focuses of the process of reforming economic institutions in Vietnam. From major reviews in the spirit of Government Resolutions to recent administrative procedure reduction programs, the goal throughout is to reduce compliance costs, create a more favorable business investment environment for businesses, and promote economic growth.
The Law on Support for small and medium enterprises No. 04/2017/QH14 after 8 years of implementation has contributed to the formation of the first legal framework for activities to support business groups accounting for more than 98% of Vietnamese enterprises . However, in the face of rapid changes, capacity building for small and medium-sized enterprises ("SMEs") has become an urgent requirement. Therefore, the Ministry of Finance is consulting on the Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on SME Support ("Draft"), in order to improve the mechanism to support SMEs in a more substantive and effective way.
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