GV Lawyers would like to introduce you an article by Lawyer Tran Huu Tien titled “Is the legal instrument the key or the lock when it comes to the disruption of the supply chain of goods due to the pandemic?” was published on the Vietnam Lawyers Electronic Journal on 26 August 2021. *** (LSVN) – The past days have witnessed many localities, including the leading economic centers of the South, restrict almost all activities to implement social distancing against the pandemic. Goods either slow down or come to a standstill. Markets, commercial centers, supermarkets… alternate between lockdowns and openings. Each piece of...

Administrative business governance and management

GV Lawyers would like to introduce readers an article by Lawyer Le Quang Vy titled: “Administrative business governance and management” published in the Saigon Economic Times No. 36-2021 (1,603) on 02 September 2021. *** During the epidemic, many state agencies as well as officials made mistakes in the process of administration, management, and performance of official duties. It happened that an agency issued three documents in one day to revoke two documents that had just been issued; or the case of a vice-chairman of the ward who behaves himself towards citizens in noncompliant with conduct standards; then the case that residents must...

Network information under the moral and legal perspective

GV Lawyers would like to introduce you an article by Lawyer Le Quang Vy titled “Network information under the moral and legal perspective” published in Saigon Economic Times No. 1,599) on 05 August 2021. *** Fake news rampant in the age of global social networks feel like duck in water. The situation of fake news causing social instability in Vietnam is evident in many forms, such as fabricating, defaming, cursing, insulting, slandering, bullying...

Advertising on national broadcast viewed from legal regulations to practical application

GV Lawyers would like to introduce to readers an article by our Lawyers, Le Quang Vy and Le Thi Hong Nga titled “Advertising on national broadcast viewed from legal regulations to practical application” published in the Vietnam Lawyers Electronic Journal on 16 August 2021. *** (LSVN) – Advertising is no longer a strange term for consumers, especially for television audience. Currently, in order for advertising to "ingrain" into each consumer, each onlooker, businesses often put their products on television with continuous and dense frequency. This has led many viewers from the sense of being interested and looking forward to TV ads to...

When prices dance

GV Lawyers would like to present you an article by Nguyen Cong Duy Thong and Tran Thi Cam Van, titled “When prices dance” published in Saigon Economic Times, Issue No. 32-2021 (1.599) on 05 August 2021. *** This wave of Covid-19 outbreak is more complicated and prolonged. Amid psychological panic, the residents’ rush to hoard food and supplies in tandem with some problems in the supply chain prompt supply to fall short of expectation at times. Taking advantages of this situation, many individual sellers and businesses raised selling prices to gain profits. The Law on prices stipulates that prices of goods must be publicly listed and...

Who Pays “Old Debts” After M&A?

GV Lawyers would like to present you an article by Assistant Attorney Tran Nguyen Phuong Anh titled “Who Pays “Old Debts” After M&A?” which was published in Saigon Economic Times on 08 July 2021.   *** May a company be released from the payment obligation for its debts by changing the shareholders and the company’s name? Who will be responsible for the debts the company had before an M&A deal? “Old debts” – one of the typical post-M&A disputes In early 2021, Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee requested relevant agencies to inspect Minh Quan High Technology Development and Investment Joint - Stock Company...

What is large and small when it comes to the charter capital?

GV Lawyers would like to introduce to our readers an article by Lawyer Do Duc Anh titled “What is large and small when it comes to the charter capital?” was published in Saigon Economic Times No. 27-2021 (1,594) on 01 July 2021.   ***   Registering a charter capital of VND500,000 billion is suspected, so is it possible to register the one worth VND1 million? Recently, there has been a lot of buzzing public opinion about an enterprise registered for establishment with a charter capital of VND500,000 billion (about USD21.7 billion) in Ho Chi Minh City. Actually, the charter capital of USD21.7 billion is not...

International trademarks protection – legal lessons for Vietnamese enterprises

We would like to introduce an article by Lawyer Le Quang Vy and Paralegal Le Kieu Phuong Cac, titled “International Trademark Protection – Legal Lessons for Vietnamese enterprises” was published on the Vietnam Lawyer electronics magazine on 12 June 2021. *** (LSVN) – Intellectual property rights (“IPR”) is a legal term used to refer to the rights of the subject to intellectual property, including copyright and related rights to copyright, industrial property rights and rights to plant varieties [1]. Depending on different intellectual property objects, the prerequisites for protection, scope and content of IP rights for each intellectual property object will be...

Does the legal representative have joint obligations to corporate debts?

GV Lawyers would like to introduce our readers an article by Lawyer Do Duc Anh and Ms. Truong Ngoc Mai titled “Does the legal representative have joint obligations to corporate debts?” was published in Saigon Economic Times No. 24-2021 (1,591) on 10 June 2021. *** The Covid-19 pandemic has not passed, many businesses have not only fallen into a state of business stagnation or even paralysis, but also entangled in "pressed" debt disputes leading to court proceedings. Who will pay this debt? The term “legal representative of the enterprise” (Legal Representative) is quite familiar to business people and administrators. It can be seen...

Who is the real author between a conceiver of creative ideas and a ghostwriter?

GV Lawyers would like to introduce an article by Lawyer Le Quang Vy and Paralegal Vo Tran Hoang Sa titled “Who is the real author between a conceiver of creative ideas and a ghostwriter?” published on Vietnam Lawyer Journal dated 15 April 2021. (LSVN) - It is about the copyright dispute between the family of Writer Huu Mai and the family of General Vo Nguyen Giap related to “the Memoirs of General Vo Nguyen Giap” ghostwritten by Writer Huu Mai; or the frustration of Writer Vo Dieu Thanh when he accepted to write memoirs for a famous person ...