LITIGATION AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Litigation and dispute resolution 

BFSC Law Firm (“BFSC“) is considered as one of the leading Law firms in Vietnam for investors, enterprises and corporations to choose when they face any disputes needed to be resolved.

We have represented for many clients in the resolution of business and commercial disputes through methods of negotiation, mediation without court proceedings and arbitration court proceedings, international arbitration, including numerous disputes resolved through the mechanism of dialogue – mediation without court proceedings or through the resolution mechanism of Arbitration and International arbitration. We have represented for many clients in the resolution of business, commercial and investment disputes in courts and judgment enforcement agencies (enforcement agencies). We also represent for many clients in resolving administrative claims over investment, corporate governance, taxation, competition, monopoly and other State management activities.

We have resolved many complicated disputes in Vietnam and cross-border disputes involving investment, real estate, construction, pharmaceutical and medical products, financing, banking, maritime, international trade, infrastructure, energy.

BFSC also established and developed a specialized division of civil lawyers to provide legal services to entrepreneurs, corporate managers and foreign individual investors living and working in Vietnam. This division provides legal services mainly related to: visa, nationality, work permit, residence permit, household registration, personal income taxation, marriage, child raising, house purchasing, land, inheritance, divorce, resolution of disputes over property, housing, land, stocks, etc., and other legal issues for clients such as foreign investors, entrepreneurs and senior managers of corporations, enterprises, State management agencies. BFSC’s lawyers have also provided defense in many criminal cases in which the offenders are investors, entrepreneurs, managers of enterprises, State management officials for committing crimes on taxation, securities, smuggling, transfer pricing.

All BFSC’s lawyers are highly respected by state management agencies of competition, taxation, customs, finance, procedure agency and arbitration organization for our their knowledge, experience, and ability to provide services of international quality with extensive understanding of Vietnamese laws and international laws as well.

Our expertise in the litigation and dispute resolution includes:

Arbitration & ADR

Advising on all industrial real estate lease transactions of industrial park projects, with arbitration as a method of dispute resolution.

Advising and mediating a dispute related to transition procedures arising from the acquisition of all contributed capital worth US $15.2 million in total of co-owners of an industrial real estate project where the buyer is a Vietnam-based enterprise operating in multiple industries.

Advising and acting as a representative in the arbitration of a dispute related to the payment of a construction contract worth US $10.5 million between a foreign contractor operating in Vietnam and a Vietnamese foreign-invested enterprise.

Advising and acting as a representative in the arbitration proceedings of a dispute over the quality of goods in a goods sale and purchase contract worth US $8.6 million between a foreign-invested enterprise and a domestic enterprise.

Advising and acting as a representative in the implementation of procedures for recognition and enforcement in Vietnam of a foreign arbitral award worth US $5.5 million related to a Vietnamese export entrustment enterprise.

Litigation & dispute resolution

Advising a Vietnamese leather shoes manufacturer in the anti-dumping lawsuit initiated by the European Commission against the Vietnamese leather and footwear industry.

Advising a Vietnam-based shipbuilding enterprise on a dispute worth US $80.6 million with a Dutch partner over a shipbuilding contract.

Advising a Vietnam-based energy enterprise in the case where it fell into arrears of land rent worth US $1.1 million for the land area it rented for project implementation.

Advising a Vietnam-based infrastructure construction enterprise in a dispute worth US $7.3 million over the payment to a joint venture contractor.

Advising on the management of a Vietnamese company in a case of suspected securities manipulation.

Legal advisor in an internal dispute related to control and management of a business among groups of shareholders of a company on VNR500 list.

Representing a group of investors in a criminal case involving criminal offenses in securities activities.

Representing foreign customers in the arrest of seagoing vessels passing through Vietnam’s territorial waters to enforce a foreign arbitral award.

Advising a foreign-invested enterprise in a dispute worth US $3.1 million with a Vietnamese enterprise on compensation for damage from a goods processing contract.

Consulting a competition-related case involving a multinational company regarding its commercial activities in the Vietnamese market.

Representing foreign customers in settling contract disputes contributing capital to invest in real estate business for US $20 million at the Court.

Representing a mining company in a mining rights dispute for US $5 million arising from the transfer of mining rights.

Legal advisor in an internal dispute related to control and management of a business among groups of shareholders of a company on VNR500 list.

Representing a group of investors in a criminal case involving criminal offenses in securities activities.

Representing foreign customers in the arrest of seagoing vessels passing through Vietnam’s territorial waters to enforce a foreign arbitral award.

Representing a foreign customer in resolving a contract of sale and purchase of goods with a Vietnamese manufacturing company with a dispute value of more than US $ 2 million.

Representing a Korean-invested enterprise operating in the field of construction, electrical system design in the dispute of building a trade center with a Korean retail group in Vietnam.

Representing the business in the dispute of land use rights and property ownership of a 1000m2 house with the address of Phu Nhuan District, Ho Chi Minh City.

Solving disputes about infringement by monopolizing useful solutions for products supporting people with mobility impairments.

Settlement of a dispute on an investment transaction in Can Tho through court proceedings between an FDI enterprise and a Vietnamese enterprise with a total value of the dispute over US $ 5 million. The case was resolved through pre-trial negotiation procedures.

Resolve two contract disputes with the value of each contract of more than US $ 02 million related to the supply of input materials between Vietnamese enterprise.

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