Date: 27 October 2026 (Tuesday)
Time: Indochina Time: 4PM-5PM
Webinar on Microsoft Teams
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.”
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 Blackstone & Gold and DFDL 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. They 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.
They 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.