VIAC or SIAC? Choosing the Right Forum for Your Vietnam-Related Contracts.

DFDL, in collaboration with Blackstone & Gold, is pleased to host a webinar on “VIAC or SIAC? Choosing the Right Forum for Your Vietnam-Related Contracts.”

Short blurb

Vietnam continues to attract substantial foreign investment across infrastructure, real estate, energy, manufacturing and trade, bringing growing dispute risk. Yet the dispute resolution clause is too often treated as boilerplate, even though forum choice affects availability of urgent protection, the speed and costs of resolving disputes and enforceability against assets.

Join DFDL and Blackstone & Gold for a practical session on choosing the right forum for Vietnam-related contracts in light of the new VIAC Rules 2026, effective 1 July 2026. We will benchmark VIAC against SIAC across six criteria: speed, cost, arbitrator pool, interim relief, multi-party and multi-contract disputes, and enforceability. A case study will bring these issues to life and show how forum choices can play out when a deal turns sour. We will also touch on a development that could reshape Vietnam's dispute resolution landscape: the planned international finance centres in Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City, and the independent dispute resolution body designed to serve them.

Ideal for in-house counsel, investors, developers, financiers and private practitioners handling Vietnam-facing transactions.

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