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Our client, a subsidiary of a leading multinational company based in Singapore, is a global pioneer in native advertising. As they expand their innovative revenue growth solutions across the advertising ecosystem, they rely on ECOVIS OC Law for expert legal support in Vietnam.
To expand into the Vietnamese market, our client needed to establish a subsidiary and sought a local law firm with in-depth knowledge of Vietnamese laws and business practices. They required services that met international standards and experience in working with foreign partners. ECOVIS OC Law was selected for its comprehensive support in the areas of incorporation, local tax compliance, labour and reporting services in Vietnam.
ECOVIS OC Law successfully assisted the client in their Vietnamese investment by providing comprehensive support in several key areas:
With extensive experience and a professional team, ECOVIS OC Law effectively facilitated the client’s subsidiary establishment and business operations in the Vietnamese advertising market. The client expressed high satisfaction with the quality of services provided.
ECOVIS OC Law continues to provide high quality, internationally standardised legal services, local tax compliance and reporting to our clients. Our strong working relationships with our clients have established our reputation and credibility among legal practitioners in Vietnam and the international community.
Explore how ECOVIS International can support your business expansion with expert legal services in Vietnam. Contact us today for a tailored solution to your business needs.
Our client in Germany, a major player in the logistics sector, was looking to expand its operations into Vietnam. To ensure a seamless and compliant establishment in this new market, they turned to Ecovis for expert assistance.
Our client needed expert guidance to navigate the complexities of setting up a business in Vietnam. This included selecting the appropriate business model, understanding the various forms of investment, obtaining the necessary permits for expatriate staff to work legally, and ensuring compliance with local tax and accounting regulations.
ECOVIS OC Law, with its extensive expertise in legal and business consulting, provided a comprehensive range of services:
The client was fully satisfied with the high quality consultancy services provided by ECOVIS OC Law. The professional guidance and support enabled them to effectively establish and operate their business in Vietnam. ECOVIS OC Law’s expertise in navigating the complexities of the Vietnamese market and regulatory landscape was critical to the client’s successful expansion.
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Working with celebrities or public figures involves risks. If the talent’s reputation suffers, the bad image will reflect on the company. Celebrity endorsement contracts manage this risk with a morals or conduct clause. The experts at Pryor Cashman LLP* explain why this is particularly important in connection with AI.
One of the key considerations when engaging with talent (a celebrity, actor, singer, or other public figure) is that the value of the association between a company or person and that talent is wholly dependent on the talent’s reputation. Of course, when entering into an agreement, one’s reputation can be vetted and appear intact. It is what might happen later, over the course of the relationship, that can be a cause for concern. To shield against that risk, talent agreements of all kinds (endorsement, co-branding, license, and sponsorship agreements), especially since the MeToo era, will typically include a “morals” or “conduct” clause.
Speak to us if you have any questions about AI risk and morals clauses.Dyan Finguerra-DuCharme, Partner, Pryor Cashman LLP*, New York, USA
The purpose of a morals clause is to provide an express remedy against talent whose conduct adversely affects the association with the relevant talent and, accordingly, the potential success of a motion picture, television series, marketing campaign, or product (thus jeopardising the value of the accompanying investment and the goodwill associated with a corporate brand).
The dawn of artificial intelligence (AI) technology has seen the birth of “deep fakes” (or as SAG-AFTRA calls them, “digital replicas”), which are (at a high level) AI-generated versions of a celebrity, typically a video or photograph that appears to be real with the celebrity expressing a particular view or encouraging consumers to unwittingly fall victim to a scam. The possibility of a deep fake creates a potential complication as to what constitutes (or, rather, should constitute) “conduct” in order to ensure that the purpose of the morals clause is met.
Would you like to know more about AI risks in celebrity endorsement deals? Read the article “Artificial Misconduct: Morals Clauses in the Age of AI” here: https://www.pryorcashman.com/publications/artificial-misconduct-morals-clauses-in-the-age-of-ai
The advent of AI has brought new challenges for talent and companies of all kinds engaging talent, each of whom must recognise that false and deceptive information about and/or involving talent and which can therefore harm his/her/their reputation has become not just possible, but rather incredibly easy. As a result, it is now more important than ever for both parties to an agreement involving the use of someone’s persona to anticipate and guard against such concerns and pre-emptively establish remedial protocols to address such issues in the unfortunate event that they occur.
Dyan Finguerra-DuCharme, Partner, Pryor Cashman LLP*, New York, USA
Email: dfinguerra-ducharme@pryorcashman.com
Simon Pulman, Partner, Pryor Cashman LLP*, New York, USA
Email: spulman@pryorcashman.com
Laure Sawaya, Special Counsel, Pryor Cashman LLP*, New York, USA
Email: lsawaya@pryorcashman.com
*Ecovis cooperates with Pryor Cashman LLP (www.pryorcashman.com), a full-service, US-based law firm with offices in New York City, Los Angeles and Miami.