Services

Finance & Projects

We have extensive experience assisting financial institutions, borrowers, developers and sponsors with a wide range of financing and project financing issues, including:

• Banking and finance. We advise financial institutions and major companies on commercial loans, syndicated loans, letters of credit, construction loans, project finance, asset-based instruments, and leasing and security arrangements. We also advise on corporate finance instruments, including convertible bonds, exchangeable bonds, floating rate notes and medium term notes.
• Bank regulatory compliance. We counsel clients on emerging legal issues in Indonesia’s rapidly changing financial markets.
• Debt restructuring and insolvency. We advise companies and creditors’ committees in major creditor-driven restructuring and voluntary restructuring initiatives. We help develop strategies for comprehensive restructuring plans and have extensive experience acting as liquidators.
• Shariah financing. Our involvement in Indonesia’s first US dollar Islamic bond issued in 2009 and the latest issuance of the Republic of Indonesia's USD 1 billion and the USD 2 billion sovereign sukuk under the USD 15 billion Global Medium Term Sukuk Certificates Program, in 2017, is testament to our capability in shariah finance.
• Energy, mining and infrastructure. We advise investors, developers, lenders, service contractors and offtakers in landmark transactions in the energy, mining and infrastructure sectors as well as power generation projects, both fossil-fuel based and renewable energy projects. We have worked on several of Indonesia’s private sector concessions for toll road and water project developments as well as oil and gas projects. We are also representing the sponsors and the project company in the mega project, first high-speed rail project in Indonesia, connecting Jakarta-Bandung.
• Climate change. As market leaders in climate change projects in Indonesia, we represent developers and carbon buyers in Clean Development Mechanism and Voluntary Carbon Market projects, covering renewable energy, agricultural waste, methane capture and combustion, and avoided deforestation (REDD/REDD+) projects. Our clients include project developers, carbon funds, multilaterals and foreign governments.

Securities & Capital Markets

A top capital market practice in the country, we provide companies, underwriters, financial institutions and investment banks with a wide range of services relating to both public and private debt and equity offerings, including capital market regulations. We assist in mergers, acquisitions and restructurings as well as the establishment of securities companies and venture capital companies.

We have been involved in several domestic and international public offerings by top Indonesian companies, including major state-owned enterprises. We have established relationships with regulatory agencies in the Indonesian capital market, providing advice during law-making processes and participating in the stock exchange committee.

Corporate, Compliance & Services (CCS)

• Business Establishment. Our services include planning and forming new corporate structures (such as limited liability companies and representative offices), reorganizing existing structures and group simplification projects.
• Corporate Maintenance. We coordinate and manage corporate housekeeping, such as calendaring annual corporate compliance requirements, preparing annual meeting minutes and filings, and handling director and officer replacements.
• Corporate Initiatives. We help clients undertake corporate initiatives, including restructuring of share capital or authorized capital, distribution of dividends, and licensing applications and filings to government authorities.
• Business Closure. Our services include planning the closure of corporate structures, revoking licenses and closure reporting to government authorities.

Corporate/Commercial

We advise clients on a wide range of corporate and commercial business legal matters with focused practices in the following areas:

• Private equity (Acquisitions)
• IT/Telecommunications/E-commerce
• Labor and employment
• Plantations/Forestry
• Insurance
• Real estate/Hotels and tourism
• Shipping

We also advise clients on:

• Mergers and acquisitions. We represent venture capitalists, multinationals, investment funds and private equity funds from start to finish in all types of M&A transactions regardless of size, complexity or location. Collaborating with senior foreign legal consultants and colleagues in other disciplines, we tailor our solutions to the relevant legal, regulatory and tax requirements.
• Foreign investment and joint ventures. We assist foreign companies in establishing joint ventures and investment structures across various industrial and service sectors. We help Indonesian companies orchestrate offshore transactions and obtain the necessary governmental approvals and licenses.
• Compliance/Regulatory matters. We advise businesses on general compliance and day-to-day legal issues.

Customs

Our customs team advises on structuring business models and agreements for the manufacture, supply, sale and movement of goods and services, both domestically and internationally. We advise on compliant trade practices.

Our lawyers work closely with specialist industry teams so we can knowledgeably advise clients on a wide variety of laws and regulations affecting cross-border and multijurisdictional trade transactions and activities. We help clients keep up with complex, rapidly changing and often conflicting import, export, customs and trade regulations that are set by the Government, and help them to overcome obstacles in implementing the business requirements.

Our team also helps clients in adversarial matters relating to customs and trade, in particular market-entry requirements (general and specific import restrictions or prohibitions), export controls and sanctions, supply chain structuring models, customs valuations, import export duties and preferential tariff issues, tariff classifications, customs benefits, e.g., waiver of duties, customs audits, customs objections and customs appeals, local content and contractual matters (such as advising on provisions in agreements to minimize implications from customs and trade aspects). We also have experience in litigating customs appeals at the tax court and civil reviews at the Supreme Court.

Commercial Litigation/Arbitration

We present clients in a wide range of civil and commercial disputes before the Indonesian courts, including contractual disputes, shareholders disputes and general commercial litigation. We also represent clients in bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings. We assist clients in formulating dispute strategies, assembling and analyzing facts and evidence, and taking matters to trial. We also represent clients in local and international arbitration of commercial disputes.

We present a wide range of employers of employment work, end to end, from "hire to fire." We field specialist practitioners with experience in both employment litigation, including termination strategy, bipartite negotiation, mediation and court representation as well as non-contentious employment advisory matters. Our team consists of locally qualified experts who are able to appear in Indonesian courts in relation to employment disputes.

We represent local and international clients navigate Indonesia’s challenging IP enforcement environment by providing full IP service covering both non-contentious and contentious matters. We assist clients to manage their IP portfolios to obtain proper protection up to enforcing their IP rights against various types of third party violations. We also assist in the exploitation of rights through licensing, franchising and commercial-related IP transactions.

Contacts

From the beginning to end of a project life cycle, we help our clients structure, develop, finance, sell and purchase a range of projects. From power (gas and renewables to battery storage and distributed energy generation, etc.), mining and resources, to roads, rail, airports, hospitals and hotels and all manner of social infrastructure, we provide the full spectrum of services they need.

We are known for our deep industry knowledge and innovative projects expertise – we have a history of delivering complex, multi-party, large-scale, long-term infrastructure projects around the globe, and across all industries and sectors. We bring commercial awareness, in-market trends and analysis to every deal across all sectors, all markets and all clients – project sponsors, suppliers, contractors, financiers, governments and the private sector.

We have been heavily involved in infrastructure projects in every industry, in projects involving both local and international participants, from the private and public sector, including acquisition financing for ports, electricity, mining, highway, to water resources. In relation to non-public funding sources, we are in the forefront of the development of the PPP sector (public-private partnership) and have provided advice in infrastructure projects funded by the private sector around the world.

We have represented clients over the years in relation to infrastructure, transport and other public financing projects, and we maintain very good relationships with key institutions and regulatory authorities in Indonesia. This allows us to utilize these relationships to provide support and guidance in relation to the regulatory and bureaucratic process in Indonesia.