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Linda Wiyati & Partners in Association with Clifford Chance Offices
DBS BANK TOWER, CIPUTRA WORLD ONE, 28TH FLOOR
JL.PROF. DR. SATRIO KAV. 3-5
JAKARTA 12940
Indonesia
Linda Wiyati & Partners in Association with Clifford Chance > The Legal 500 Rankings
Indonesia > Foreign firms Tier 1
Clifford Chance is renowned as a top-rate firm for its activity in Indonesia and Southeast Asia as a whole. The firm offers services across a wide array of practice areas within the jurisdiction, including capital markets, bank financing, M&A, construction, restructurings and dispute resolution. With a large pool of practitioners capable of operating on Indonesian matters, the practice regularly acts for clients in complex, cross-border issues that are often high-profile or high-value. Melissa Ng leads the firm’s Indonesia Group and handles M&A work for her longstanding clients. Thomas England specialises in leverage and acquisition finance, restructuring and insolvency, while Shaun Langhorne focuses his practice on complex, multi-stakeholder and cross-border restructuring matters across the region. In addition, Gareth Deiner is practiced in the debt capital markets sector and Matthew Buchanan is expert in construction matters concerning infrastructure.Practice head(s):
Melissa Ng
Other key lawyers:
Key clients
Home Credit Group B.V.
CVC Capital Partners
Star Energy Group Holdings Pte Ltd
PTT International Holding Limited
PT Medco Energi Internasional Tbk
Tolaram Group Inc.
Indonesia Investment Authority
Navis Capital Partners
BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Credit Suisse and Mandiri Sekuritas, and underwriters DBS, OCBC and UOB Kay Hian
PT Jayamas Medica Industri Tbk
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, Standard Chartered Bank and Barclays as Placement Agents
Barclays, ANZ and SCB
BNY Mellon
Macquarie Aircraft Leasing Services
ICBC International Leasing Co., Ltd
SMBC Aviation Capital Limited
Avolon Aerospace Leasing Limited
Perusahaan Listrik Negara (Persero) PT
ACEN Corporation
Work highlights
- Advising each of the individual lessors and the ad hoc group of aircraft lessors on the restructuring of the Indonesian state-owned and listed airline PT Garuda Indonesia (Persero) Tbk and certain of its subsidiaries.
- Advised the joint lead underwriters BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Credit Suisse and Mandiri Sekuritas, and underwriters DBS, OCBC and UOB Kay Hian on the US and international aspects of PT Trimegah Bangun Persada Tbk’s initial public offering and listing on the Indonesia Stock Exchange.
- Advised Home Credit Group B.V. on its agreement to sell 100% of its Philippines and Indonesian consumer finance businesses to a consortium of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group affiliates, led by Krungsri Bank, in deals worth approximately €615m.
Linda Wiyati & Partners in Association with Clifford Chance > Firm Profile
The firm: Clifford Chance is one of the world’s pre-eminent law firms, with significant depth and range of resources across five continents. As a single, fully integrated, global partnership, it prides itself on its approachable, collegial and team-based way of working. The firm always strives to exceed the expectations of its clients, which include corporates from all the commercial and industrial sectors, governments, regulators, trade bodies and not-for-profit organisations. It provides them with the highest quality advice and legal insight, which combines the firm’s global standards with in-depth local expertise.
Types of work undertaken
Capital markets: the capital markets practice concentrates on securities transactions and other products sold into the capital markets. The practice is founded on a full-service US and UK securities law capability, complemented by local securities law expertise in each of the key financial centres. It provides practical, integrated legal advice covering the full spectrum of global capital raising activities including public and private domestic and international offerings of traditional debt and equity securities as well as convertible and other derivative and structured securities.
Corporate: the corporate practice handles some of the world’s largest and most complex M&A transactions. It combines global transaction capability with a full service of English, US and civil law expertise in the key financial centres across Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. In addition to mainstream M&A, the firm also encompasses leading specialist practices in: commercial contracts, competition and antitrust, communications, energy, healthcare, financial institutions, funds, investment banking, insurance, media and technology, and private equity.
Finance: Clifford Chance’s finance practice is the leading international finance practice of any law firm. The practice provides highly commercial and practical advice across the full spectrum of financial products including syndicated lending and leveraged and acquisition finance, asset finance, derivative products, project finance, financial regulatory, insolvency, restructuring and structured finance.
Litigation, dispute resolution and risk management: the firm has experience in virtually all segments of the business and financial markets across multiple jurisdictions. The lawyers work with clients to resolve disputes efficiently and effectively – whether through arbitration, litigation or other techniques.
Real estate: Clifford Chance’s leading real estate practice offers UK, European, Asian and US real estate capability. The practice advises the real estate industry’s leading players on the entire property ‘life-cycle’ from the initial acquisition, development, leasing, joint venturing and financing through to the final exit, as well as tax structuring, PFI/PPP, corporate outsourcing, planning, environment and litigation.
Tax, pensions, employment and incentives: Clifford Chance has one of the world’s largest international tax groups within a single law firm. The firm is uniquely placed to provide leading edge advice to clients, and the practice is structured on an integrated global basis. Local tax groups within the practice work closely with areas such as securitisation, securities, M&A, corporate restructuring, private equity, real estate and funds.
The pan-European VAT group advises on all areas of VAT and has particular strength advising on novel and complex issues in the structured finance, financial services, corporate finance and real estate sectors.
The team of experienced employment, employee benefits, ERISA, immigration and pensions specialists work with clients from a wide range of sectors to address local and cross-border issues.
International offices: Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Bangkok, Barcelona, Beijing, Brussels, Bucharest, Casablanca, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Jakarta*, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Munich, New York, Paris, Perth, Prague, Rome, São Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Warsaw, Washington, D.C., Riyadh**
*Linda Widyati & Partners in association with Clifford Chance
**Clifford Chance has a co-operation agreement with Abuhimed Alsheikh Alhagbani Law Firm in Riyadh
Staff Figures
Number of partners : 550 Number of other fee-earners : 3,300Legal Briefings
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