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On November 20, 2025, Abbott Laboratories officially reached an agreement to acquire Exact Sciences Corporation with an enterprise value of up to $23 billion . Abbot is a well-known name in the nutrition industry in Vietnam. Although the deal is carried out entirely abroad, many questions arise whether this "giant" of the healthcare industry will be forced to carry out the procedure of notifying economic concentration with the Vietnamese authorities before completing the transaction?
The Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM) is held every year in accordance with the law to ensure the right to participate in governance and supervision of shareholders, especially minority shareholders. In addition to the annual meetings, the General Meeting of Shareholders may hold extraordinary meetings when needs arise during the operation of the enterprise. These meetings play a central role in the adoption of important decisions, directly impacting the company's development direction, organizational structure, and business activities. However, not all resolutions passed at the General Meeting of Shareholders are automatically legally effective. Some serious errors can lead to the risk of the resolution being requested to be canceled.
Mergers and acquisitions are an important strategy to help listed companies expand their scale, optimize resources, and strengthen their competitive position in the market. However, this process has many potential legal, financial and operational risks if not strictly managed through the merger contract. In this article, we will clarify the important legal notes that listed enterprises need to consider when drafting and executing a merger contract so that this procedure can take place smoothly and with little risk in practice.
The Law on Recovery and Bankruptcy 2025 was passed at the 10th National Assembly session and will take effect from March 1, 2026 , not only completing the legal framework in handling businesses in impasse and crisis, but will also feature new principles: prioritizing production recovery, business glasses of enterprises in order to create conditions for enterprises to "return" to the market when they are still able. This is the first time in legislative history that Vietnam has established the procedure for restoring business activities as an independent institution, which is relatively fully regulated, comprehensively and has a legal position equivalent to and in addition to bankruptcy procedures.
In the context of the Law on Personal Data Protection 2025, which has formally established the legal framework for the appointment and operation of Data Protection Officers (DPOs), practical implementation in Vietnam continues to raise a number of complex issues. These include the DPO’s right to cease performing assigned duties, the choice between an internal and outsourced DPO model, questions of legal liability, and mechanisms to ensure functional independence. The Q&A section below addresses common challenges arising during the appointment process and provides structured legal and governance perspectives on managing the DPO role in Vietnam.
Current practice shows certain limitations in the current food safety management and supervision mechanism, especially the control from production, processing to circulation in the market. Recent incidents of contaminated food have raised big questions about the responsibility and management efficiency of state management agencies in controlling and supervising food safety.
Administrative procedure reform is considered the 'backbone' of the modern investment environment. However, practice shows that in Vietnam, many businesses still face cumbersome and inconsistent procedures - even going against the spirit of reform. The gap between policy and practice is therefore still quite far.
The year 2025 will witness strong legal fluctuations unprecedented in Vietnam's legislative history. The National Assembly, together with the Government of ministries, departments and branches, has issued a record number of new laws, decrees and circulars that have created a "fierce flow" of Vietnamese law. Although it opens up opportunities to improve the business and investment environment, this event poses many challenges for the business community. From the perspective of a companion, sticking with businesses through these fluctuations, we would like to offer some thoughts on the multi-dimensional impact of legal flows in 2025, and at the same time suggest some solutions to help businesses proactively "steadily row" in the face of big waters. not to be swept away or drowned in the context of many uncertainties today.
For the pharmaceutical industry, specifically for today's pharmacy chains, the stored data block is not just a type of transaction information between drug sellers and drug buyers, but also health data - a sensitive form of data under the new law and is required to be more strictly protected. However, there are gaps in the way pharmacies collect and separate their data management that can expose these businesses to legal risks even as they strive to demonstrate compliance with current laws.
In the days adjacent to the Lunar New Year, which should be a time of exciting trade, many business households and small businesses are worried about the rapid changes in legal policies.
Today, insurance products are considered an integral part of the lives of individuals and organizations, playing a role in supporting both individuals and organizations in reducing risks and financial stability. Along with the increase in demand and the emergence of complex and potentially risky transactions, the completion of relevant legal regulations is considered one of the top priorities.
For many years, the first-to-file principle has been considered the pillar of the trademark protection system in Vietnam. This principle brings transparency, simplicity and high predictability to business entities: whoever applies first, if the protection conditions are fully met, will be entitled to the establishment of rights. However, the practice of resolving trademark disputes increasingly shows that this principle no longer operates in isolation. In parallel with registered trademarks, trade names – an object of rights that do not need to be registered – are playing an increasingly important role, even potentially undermining the ability of the dossiers under examination to be granted trademarks.
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