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Date: Tue 16 May 2023 Time: 1.00pm-7.00pm Venue: The Four Seasons Hotel Jakarta, Jl. Gatot Subroto Kav 18, Capital Place, Jakarta, 12710

The role of general counsel and senior in-house legal advisors is constantly evolving to meet the rapidly changing demands of organisations in today’s business world. In addition to overseeing the day-to-day legal challenges affecting the business and managing legal staff, in-house lawyers are expected to diversify their service offering in order to overcome a growing list of commercial challenges. Whether it is managing internal investigations, defending their company in cross-border disputes, handling complex data or adapting to the shifting trends in M&A, the required skillset of the profession is developing at an exponential rate.

The Legal 500’s GC Summit Indonesia invites the most esteemed in-house counsel from the country’s most prolific companies to discuss their changing roles as in-house leaders and the challenges, issues and opportunities they are set to face in 2023 and beyond. Between comprehensive panel discussions, presentations and the opportunity to meet and engage with fellow in-house counsel, GC Summit Indonesia promises to be a practical, forward-looking event bringing together the region’s top legal minds.

Agenda

1.00pm – 1.30pm Registration

1.30pm – 1.40pm  Welcome Address and Opening remarks

  • Joe Boswell, global editor – Powerlist Series, The Legal 500
  • Randi Ikhlas Sardoni, group general counsel, Hijra

1.40pm – 2.30pm Understanding and overcoming data protection and cyber security challenges and the path to compliance

  • Andera Rabbani, associate, Hogan Lovells DNFP
  • Mochamad Kasmali, partner, Hogan Lovells DNFP
  • Ulfah Diah Susanti, junior expert policy analyst on personal data protection, Ministry of Communication and Informatics
  • Raditya Kosasih, chairman, Association of Indonesian Personal Data Practitioner (APPDI)
  • Sonny Supriyadi, head of pricing and data analytics, PT Bank Maybank Indonesia Tbk

2.30pm – 3.00pm ESG for General Counsel

  • Kresna Panggabean, partner, TNB & Partners
  • Shamim Razavi, partner, Norton Rose Fulbright Australia
  • Tias Karina, associate, TNB & Partners
  • Shoghil Arputhaselan, sustainability advisor and practitioner

3.00pm – 3.30pm Fintech in Southeast Asia 

  • Bernardus Billy, partner, Makes & Partners
  • TIAN Sion Yoong, partner, WongPartnership LLP

3.30pm – 3.45pm Coffee Break  

3.45pm – 4.00pm Many different hats: the role of the General Counsel

  • Ton van den Bosch, partner, Clyde & Co

4.00pm – 4.50pm The Eye of the Storm: Crisis prevention, response and reaction. How to manage legal risks in a time of crisis.

  • Suang Wijaya, partner, Eugene Thuraisingam LLP
  • Eugene Thuraisingam, managing partner, Eugene Thuraisingam LLP
  • Ruth Liew, group head of legal, Karma Group Global
  • Ton van den Bosch, partner, Clyde & Co
  • Seradesi Sumardi, general counsel, L’Oreal
  • Wahyu Setiawan, legal director, Red Doorz

4.50pm – 5.00pm Closing Remarks

  • Joe Boswell, global editor – Powerlist Series, The Legal 500

5.00pm – 6.00pm Networking Drinks     

Speakers

Ton van den Bosch, partner, Singapore, Clyde & Co

Ton van den Bosch is a partner in the Singapore office of global law firm Clyde & Co. He has more than 15 years of experience with international law firms in Singapore, Amsterdam, New York and Jakarta and around 10 years of experience as General Counsel, first of a global oil & gas contractor and, more recently, of a global listed container terminal operator headquartered in the Philippines.
Ton is a member of the board of the Dutch chamber of commerce in Singapore and a regular author and speaker on topics related to project development, corporate finance and restructurings and he is a contributing author of the handbook “Indonesian Bankruptcy Law” (Jakarta, Tatanusa, 1999, ISBN 979-8409-05-01).
Ton has been recognised by The Legal 500 for his work in the energy, upstream, infrastructure and ports sectors for four consecutive years. Ton is admitted to the Dutch bar, qualified to practise in England and Wales, registered as a foreign lawyer in Singapore and he has a strong reputation in the upstream, offshore, FPSO, renewables, agri, logistics, ports and terminals sectors in frontier and emerging markets in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and ASEAN.

Mochamad Kasmali, partner, Hogan Lovells DNFP

Mochamad Kasmali (Kasmali) is a Jakarta-based partner in the Hogan Lovells Corporate & Finance practice group. He is an accomplished lawyer in the energy and resources sector, with a wealth of experience and knowledge in mining, oil & gas, power, environmental, forestry, land, and employment matters.

Kasmali’s main areas of practice includes energy & natural resources – M&A and corporate matters, regulatory requirements relating to business licence and other matters, forestry and environmental matters, real estate development – land due diligence, M&A and JVA in the sector, construction-related matters and general corporate, including FDI, M&A and employment.

Before joining Hogan Lovells, Kasmali was the Managing Partner of one of the leading law firms in Jakarta. Kasmali also worked at Newmont Indonesian subsidiary companies as Senior Corporate Counsel for almost 10 years. He gained considerable commercial experience and technical expertise being involved in day-to-day mining operations, environmental and forestry issues, and employment matters.

Kasmali’s main areas of practice includes energy & natural resources – M&A and regulatory requirements relating to business licence, forestry and environmental matters, real estate development – land due diligence, M&A and JVA in the sector, and construction related matters, general corporate, including FDI, M&A and employment.
Before joining Hogan Lovells, Kasmali was the Managing Partner of one of the leading law firms in Jakarta. Kasmali also worked at Newmont Indonesian subsidiary companies as Senior Corporate Counsel for almost 10 years. He gained considerable commercial experience and technical expertise involved in day-to-day mining operations, environmental and forestry issues, and employment matters.

Andera Rabbani, associate, Hogan Lovells DNFP

As the associate leading on data privacy and cybersecurity matters in Hogan Lovells DNFP, Andera’s in-depth and practical understanding of Indonesia’s personal data protection law regime allows him to provide a comprehensive suite of high quality services to his clients.

Andera advises clients across a broad range of sectors to ensure compliance with, and understanding of, the provisions relating to the collection, processing, retention, offshore transfer and deletion/removal of personal data, as well as data breaches. In addition, Andera has also assists clients in reviewing and drafting their localised privacy policies.

Ruth Liew, group head of legal, Karma Group

Ruth is presently the Head of Legal of Karma Group, looking after the Group’s hospitality and development legal portfolio in Asia and Europe. Prior to her role in Karma Group, she was practising as a Construction Dispute lawyer in an international law firm.

Ruth’s legal portfolios includes managing disputes matters, compliance, property acquisitions and support various legal matters arising from the operation of the company.

Suang Wijaya, partner, Eugene Thuraisingam LLP

Suang Wijaya’s record as lead counsel includes securing an acquittal for a domestic helper accused of numerous theft charges and persuading the Court of Appeal to permit a novel application for financial relief consequential upon foreign divorce. Suang regularly advises on high-value contentious matters including shareholder and corporate disputes, fraud and asset recovery, employment disputes and professional disciplinary processes.

In 2014, Suang graduated with First Class Honours from the National University of Singapore. Drawn to the firm’s commitment to access to justice and the upholding of fundamental liberties, he joined Eugene Thuraisingam LLP. In 2018, after three years in practice, Suang became a partner of the firm.

Suang has interests in civil and criminal procedure and has published in both these areas. Recently, he co-authored the annotations of Criminal Procedure Code 2010 published by Lexis Advance®.

Eugene Thuraisingam, managing partner, Eugene Thuraisingam LLP

Eugene Thuraisingam is the managing partner of Eugene Thuraisingam LLP, a Singaporean law firm specialising in international arbitrations and criminal investigations. With over two decades of experience, he is no stranger to the realm of high-value and cross-border disputes. He regularly handles international arbitrations in the Singapore International Arbitration Centre for clients in the Southeast Asia region. Most recently, Eugene was named one of Asia’s Top 15 litigators by ALB and rated as a litigation star in the practice area of white-collar crime.

In addition to his commercial practice, Eugene Thuraisingam has litigated many seminal cases involving fundamental liberties that have since found their way into Singaporean constitutional textbooks. These cases cover a wide spectrum of issues including freedom of speech, the constitutional right to counsel and the exercise of prosecutorial discretion. ETLLP has played an instrumental role in advancing novel arguments and the development of the law.

Ulfah Diah Susanti, junior expert policy analyst on personal data protection, Ministry of Communication and Informatics

Ulfah Diah Susanti holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in IT management. She is currently assigned as Policy Analyst for data protection. On several occasions, she also participated in issues surrounding Personal Data Protection and Cross border-data, including holding a multistakeholder workshop on cross-border data flow for DEWG G20 in July 2022. She actively participated in bilateral and multilateral negotiations related to PDP, such as Indonesia-Uni Emirat Arab CEPA, IEU-CEPA, IJEPA, and WTO JSI on e-commerce. She also did not miss to attend the issues surrounding PDP and CBDF in the APEC, ASEAN, and other forums.

Raditya Kosasih, chairman, Association of Indonesian Personal Data Practitioner (APPDI)

Raditya Kosasih is the Co-Founder and former Chairman of APPDI (Asosiasi Praktisi Pelindungan Data Indonesia/Indonesian Association of Data Protection Professionals). He is also currently working as Head of Governance, Data Protection and Privacy Office at GoTo Group. Kosasih previously worked for a top-tier law firm and several government agencies, such as UKP4 and BKPM. Kosasih has a Bachelor of Law from Universitas Indonesia and LLM in Law and Digital Technologies from Leiden University, The Netherlands. Kosasih is nominated as Data Privacy and Protection Lawyer of the Year 2023 from ALB South East Asia Law Awards.

Sonny Supriyadi, head of pricing and data analytics, PT Bank Maybank Indonesia Tbk

A versatile Pricing professional and international speaker with global exposure who thrives on a challenging environment, Sonny Supriyadi has led global projects in numerous countries in Asia, Europe and North America, teaching them to lead local organisations for their Business & Process Transformation. He has extensive expertise in Pricing and an extremely strong financial background.

Joe Boswell, global editor - Powerlist Series, The Legal 500

Joe Boswell has been a part of The Legal 500’s editorial team, specialising on the in-house legal community, for more than seven years. He now heads The Powerlist team, acting as chief editor for the over 40 separate editions of the GC Powerlist series which serve as The Legal 500’s flagship title celebrating the world’s top in-house counsel, as well as Global Editor for The Legal 500’s Private Practice Powerlist Series.

During the course of researching for the GC Powerlist series, Boswell has interviewed a vast number of world-renowned general counsel, chief legal officers, and legal directors about overcoming the challenges they face, their legal innovations, and how they see the general counsel role progressing in coming years. As well as this, he is a regular speaker at Legal 500 summits, roundtables, award ceremonies and other events, and often writes in-depth reports on business and legal issues.

Boswell is an alumnus of both the University of Sussex in The United Kingdom and the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in The Netherlands.

Randi Ikhlas Sardoni, group general counsel, Hijra

Randi is a seasoned General Counsel in the financial services industry and has been practicing law since 2010 at a prominent Indonesian law firm in Jakarta, later dedicating his career as in-house counsel to the financial services industry. He has worked in a stated-owned bank (Bank Negara Indonesia), and as General Counsel at multinational life insurance companies (Panin Dai-ichi Life and Great Eastern Life). Currently he is the Group General Counsel at Hijra, a leading sharia compliant and driven financial technology group of companies in the Digital Bank and Peer to Peer Lending space, where he leads dozens of lawyers and a compliance squad of the group companies.
 
Randi also holds position as Legal Advisor at the AASI (Association of Indonesia Sharia Insurance) and the IIS (Islamic Insurance Society) where he is actively involved in providing input for the regulations related to insurance business in general and sharia insurance business in particular.
His works has been acknowledged  by the Legal500 in prestigious publications such as the GC Powerlist – Southeast Asia and shortlisted as the In-House Rising Star Southeast Asia Awards. In his spare time, Randi enjoys playing golf and tennis and do some pro bono teaching for law school students.

Bernardus Billy, partner, Makes & Partners

Billy BERNARDUS is a Partner of Makes & Partners, a member of WPG. Billy holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the Faculty of Law, Catholic University of Parahyangan, in Bandung, Indonesia. Billy began his career as a junior associate in a prominent law firm in Jakarta with intensive focus on civil and commercial litigation and general corporate matters.

He joined Makes & Partners Law Firm in 2012 and, in 2017, became its youngest partner. Billy has handled many international and cross-border commercial transactions and is specialising in international capital market transactions (144a and Reg S transaction) such as global notes offering, medium term note offering, international private placement and initial public offering.

Billy has been recognised as the Leading Lawyer Rising Star by International Financial Law Review (IFLR) 1000 in 2019 as well as 2020 for his practice in capital markets and M&A.

TIAN Sion Yoong, partner, WongPartnership LLP

Tian Sion Yoong is a Partner in the Financial Services Regulatory, the Derivatives & Structured Products, and the FinTech Practices at WongPartnership LLP.

His main practice areas are financial services regulatory, FinTech, blockchain, and derivatives & structured products (both transactional and regulatory).

Sion Yoong regularly advises the gamut of Fintech providers. In the regulatory space, he also advises financial institutions on the regulatory landscape in Singapore, including licensing and regulatory requirements applicable to financial market infrastructures, banks, securities dealers, financial advisers and other financial intermediaries, and derivatives trade reporting, clearing, trading and margin requirements. 

In the derivatives transactional space, he has assisted numerous clients (including general corporates and regulated entities such as banks, insurance companies and REITs) with the preparation, review and/or negotiation of their derivatives documentation, including the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) master agreements, confirmations and credit support and collateral management documentation.

Sion Yoong also has experience with bond issuances, structured note programmes, securitisations and other forms of structured finance. He also has prior experience as in-house counsel in a major investment bank supporting its foreign exchange (FX), rates and credit trading businesses in both transactional and regulatory matters.

Sion Yoong is a recommended lawyer in The Legal 500: Asia Pacific – The Client’s Guide to the Asia Pacific Legal Profession for the areas of Financial Services Regulatory and Structured Finance, Derivatives and Securitisation. In addition, his expertise in Banking & Finance Regulatory matters and Securitisation & Derivatives has been recognised by Chambers Global Guide 2022 and Chambers Asia-Pacific Guide 2022, where he is ranked as an up and coming lawyer.

In the regulatory space, he has advised financial institutions on the regulatory landscape in Singapore, including licensing and regulatory requirements applicable to financial market infrastructures, banks, securities dealers, financial advisers and other financial intermediaries, and derivatives trade reporting, clearing, trading and margin requirements. He has also advised a number of FinTech providers (including prospective digital bank, crowdfunding platforms, robo-advisers and payment service providers), blockchain platforms, cryptocurrency/digital token exchanges, dApp and DeFi projects, metaverse and game companies, as well as initial coin offerings (ICO)/security token offerings (STO) and issuers of stablecoin and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), on various licensing, regulatory and transactional matters.

 

Seradesi Sumardi, general counsel, L'Oreal

 

 

Kresna Panggabean, partner, TNB & Partners

Kresna Panggabean is a corporate and commercial lawyer at TNB & Partners, an Indonesian law firm associated with global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright.

Kresna has more than 18 years’ experience advising companies across the energy and resources, technology and healthcare sectors on mergers and acquisitions, regulatory issues, compliance strategies, and general corporate affairs. He has an extensive employment law practice and also provides litigation support.

Kresna’s particular industry focus is mining, resources and agribusiness.  He has presented workshops and published articles to help clients navigate Indonesia’s mining regulations.

Shamim Razavi, partner, Norton Rose Fulbright Australia

Shamim Razavi is an award winning and highly regarded energy, resources and commercial lawyer based in Sydney.

He specialises in cross-border M&A in the energy sector but also works on regulatory and operational matters including on strategic aspects of contentious matters. He has extensive experience working with corporations and governments in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond, and leads our Sydney-based Japanese practice.

Shamim is noted for his ability to translate commercial needs into practical and legal reality, for his client-focus and delivery of results. Clients recommend his “extensive knowledge combined with business acumen” (Asia Pacific Legal 500). 

Tias Karina, associate, TNB & Partners

Tias Karina is a corporate lawyer based in Jakarta. Tias’ practice focuses on technology, infrastructure, and energy as well as financial institutions with extensive experiences on issues related to data privacy and sustainability energy. She assists clients in various M&A transactions and advises on regulatory compliance and general corporate matters.Tias graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Indonesia in 2015 and completed a master degree with specialisation in TMT law from the Queen Mary University of London in 2020.

Shoghil Arputhaselan, sustainability advisor and practitioner

Shoghil has been gaining experience and specializing for over 14 years in sustainability advisory and practice implementation across stakeholder management, ESG due diligence, and operational transformation and risk. In addition, he is a social impact analyst with experience in the social space for more than 19 years in several community settings in Southeast Asia.

During his career since August 2008, Shoghil has been exposed to numerous circumstances turning challenges into opportunities in public listed companies and multinational companies. Across Southeast Asia, he has been assisting businesses in building the bridge to envisioned future state in business sustainability and/or sustainability initiative(s) by developing, implementing, reviewing, analyzing and assessing the organizations’ structure and/or function(s) aligning with international standards, industry standards and/or local regulations. Shoghil has been working in the following industries: Pulp and Timber, Forestry, FMCG, FSI, Energy, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Trading, Healthcare (Sports Medicine), Hospitality, Property Development and Construction, Brokerage Firm, Tourism, and IT.

 

Wahyu Setiawan, legal director, Red Doorz

Wahyu marks his professional career both as in-house and external counsel in energy and technology industries, and currently serves as Legal Director for RedDoorz. He previously worked as Legal Counsel for Grab Indonesia where he represented the company in a landmark case and contributed to a successful SPAC transaction. He also sits as the Board of Supervisors of Vaksinasi Merdeka Foundation which helps to expedite Covid-19 vaccination program in Indonesia. He obtained his Master’s Degree from University of Southern California, and is a Member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

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