SSEK Law Firm

Arbitration and dispute resolution, banking and finance, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, mining and natural resources, projects and project financing, real estate, restructuring and insolvency, TMT, fintech and digital economy

Foreign Legal Advisor

Michael S. Carl joined SSEK in 2004 and has more than 30 years of experience practicing law in Southeast Asia, principally in Indonesia. His practice is oriented toward corporate law and foreign investment, energy and mining, finance, insolvency and restructurings, mergers and acquisitions and technology. Michael is particularly well known for his work with clients on the fast-changing Indonesian regulatory environment.

Michael is a graduate of Harvard University and holds law degrees from leading universities in the United States and Indonesia. He is fluent in Indonesian.

Prior to joining SSEK, Michael was associated with the international law firm Baker & McKenzie in its Singapore and Bangkok offices, where he handled capital markets and investment transactions and represented Indonesian and Thai companies in US capital markets offerings and debt restructurings. He was also previously associated with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP as part of the firm’s capital markets group.

English, Indonesian

California State Bar

Interlex Group

American Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia

Harvard University, B.A., history

University of Hawaii, M.A., economics

University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law, J.D.

East-West Center, Hawaii, graduate fellow

Atma Jaya University, S.H. (Indonesian law degree)