Our HCMC Office was established on May 2015. The HCMC Office provides extensive legal services to address various legal issues in Vietnam. It also advises our clients about legal issues arising in the process of doing business in Vietnam, such as compliance and labor affairs and dispute resolution issues, as well as assisting them in branching out into Vietnam by advising them on M&A transactions, real estate development projects and establishing subsidiaries in Vietnam. Our HCMC Office primarily deals with the following areas of practice: ・The establishment and reorganization of Japanese corporations’ bases in Vietnam, and their withdrawal from the country ・M&A ・Joint ventures ・Real estate and infrastructure projects ・Dispute resolution ・Compliance by Japanese corporations’ bases in Vietnam ・Financial transactions (e.g., loan agreements and the creation of various types of security) ・Antitrust and competition law ・Labor and employment law ・Intellectual property law ・General corporate law Our HCMC Office works closely with other AMT offices, such as our Hanoi, Tokyo and Singapore offices, to provide our clients with prompt and quality services. When necessary, it also collaborates with top tier, full service local firms in Vietnam such as VILAF, and relies on their assistance especially for projects such as large-scale M&A transactions and government licensing matters.