The term of “foreign investor” or “foreing-invested business” is quite similar between the Law on Enterprises 2005 and the Law on Investment 2005. At the time of issue, many people argued that Viet Nam has created a united and equal legal environment between types of enterprises and investment capital. However, over a short period of operation, the idea of a consistent and equitable legal environment has gradually disappeared.

From the end of 2010 until now, lawyers specializing in business and investment consultancy received many legal inquiries for Vietnamese enterprises to invest abroad, with different investment scales.