Joel R. Hogarth
9 Raffles Place
#22-01/02
Republic Plaza 1
Singapore, 048619
Phone: +65-6593-1866
Fax: +65 6593-1801
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David Makarechian
9 Raffles Place
#22-01/02
Republic Plaza 1
Singapore, 048619
Phone: +65-6593-1868
Fax: +65 6593-1801
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Bertie Mehigan
9 Raffles Place
#22-01/02
Republic Plaza 1
Singapore, 048619
Phone: +65-6593-1888
Fax: +65 6593-1801
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Ratih (Ipop) Nawangsari
9 Raffles Place
#22-01/02
Republic Plaza 1
Singapore, 048619
Phone: +65-6593-1822
Fax: +65 6593-1801
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Huey Yann Thong
9 Raffles Place
#22-01/02
Republic Plaza 1
Singapore, 048619
Phone: +65-6593-1828
Fax: +65 6593-1801
PROFESSIONALS
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Indonesia
After avoiding the worst of the current global economic crisis, Indonesia has continued its impressive economic growth. Its abundant natural resources, combined with ambitious legal and bureaucratic reform, have positioned it as one of Asia’s most attractive investment destinations for foreign investors. At the same time, thriving Indonesian companies are now looking to expand their reach beyond the local borders.
O’Melveny features a robust Indonesia practice. We offer the kind of institutional grasp of regional legal, business, and cultural practices that comes with more than 50 years of collective on-the-ground experience handling complex deals and ground-breaking cases. Since the opening of our Singapore office in August 2008, our team has had a hand in more than 20 significant Indonesia-related transactions, including the restructuring of the operating companies of a leading Indonesian coal producer—an effort that included the largest Indonesia IPO to date—and our representation of Asia Pulp and Paper’s Indonesia subsidiaries in their ongoing restructuring of US$6.5 billion of debt.
Whether representing clients on large-scale restructurings, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, or advising in relation to raising capital, financing options and strategic investments, we are able to offer effective and complete advice to clients entering the Indonesian market, as well as Indonesia-based clients doing business outside of Indonesia.
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Key Facts
- Our team includes US, UK, Singapore and Indonesian-qualified lawyers experienced with Indonesia work (including some who are native Indonesian lawyers with language and cultural fluency). O’Melveny & Myers LLP is not licensed to practice law in Indonesia.
- Two of our Singapore-based attorneys recently received recognition from Chambers Asia for their work as international counsel in Indonesia in the categories of Banking & Finance and Corporate/Commercial.
- FinanceAsia awarded us “Best Indonesia Deal” of 2009.
- Our Indonesian practice attorneys’ capabilities span from mergers and acquisitions, private equity, strategic investments, banking and finance, debt capital markets and investment funds.
- Through the work that O’Melveny has undertaken in Indonesia, we have developed close and effective relationships with many of Indonesia’s leading law firms.
- Our Indonesia practice group is part of an integrated team with our colleagues in O’Melveny’s five Asia offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo. As intra-Asia commerce continues to grow, having a strong Asia-wide platform is a key to serving both Indonesian companies and multinationals in their cross-border business endeavors.
Practice Strengths
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Banking and Finance and Debt Capital Markets
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Our Indonesia team has worked on a large number of banking and finance transactions in Indonesia. We are as comfortable with lender-side and borrower-side transactions as we are with "event-driven" financings, such as acquisition finance and investment finance. We also regularly advise corporate clients on a range of different financing options such as high-yield debt, export credit, securitizations, syndicated loans, and project financing. Some of our highlight transactions include advising on a syndicated facility for a major Indonesian petrochemical producer company; advising on the issue of high-yield bond to construct a high-end serviced apartment building in Jakarta’s central business district; and advising on project financing for the first-ever submarine cable developed by an Indonesian communication company.
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Indonesia
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Investment Funds
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We are building a team in Singapore that is focused on the structuring and establishment of private equity and other alternative investment funds in Asia. We represented one of the world’s largest private equity firms in its US$ 2.9 billion emerging markets private equity fund that. The first investment made by the fund was into an oil exploration company with a substantial focus in Indonesia. We also advised a UK-based fund of funds on its investment into an Indonesia-focused private equity fund.
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Litigation and Dispute Resolution
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Our attorneys have vast knowledge and experience in handling litigation and dispute resolution matters involving Indonesia. Coupled with the strong relationships that we have with a number of experienced local counsels and professional organizations, we are well-equipped in understanding the setting and we manage the process effectively in handling litigation and dispute resolution matters in Indonesia. We are currently representing a major media company in Indonesia in arbitration arising from a dispute with a foreign company in relation to a certain shareholders’ arrangement.
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Mergers and Acquisitions
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We have extensive experience in many sub-areas of mergers and acquisitions including inbound and outbound mergers and acquisitions, auctions, structured divestment programs, and privately negotiated transactions. Our experiences range from representing Indonesian parties in their overseas acquisition, as well as acting for large multinationals in their merger and acquisition into Indonesia. We represented the selling shareholders in the high-profile divestment of Indonesia’s second-largest coal mining contractor company. We have also represented a major Indonesian corporate group in their overseas acquisition of US-based and Canadian-based distressed companies.
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Private Equity and Strategic Investments
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Leading private equity funds regularly rely on our Indonesia team to advise them and their portfolio companies on structured investments in the region. Our fluency with debt, equity, and other financial instruments permits us to negotiate and structure investments to achieve our clients’ investment goals in Indonesia. Some examples of the structures that we have tailored for our past deals are: hybrid preference share issuance with cash controls, convertible exchanged bonds with escrowed equity, stapled and tranched mezzanine debt instruments, and structured derivative programs such as total return swaps and credit linked notes.
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Restructuring
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Our Indonesia team features some of the leading restructuring lawyers in Asia, who have extensive experiences in working with clients in all aspect of restructuring matters. In recent years, we have been involved in many-high profile Indonesia restructurings. We represented the bondholder steering committee in recent court composition proceedings initiated against a public Indonesian producer and exporter company. And we represented an ad hoc committee in the restructuring of US$207 million of senior mezzanine notes issued by a leading national onshore- and offshore-drilling contractor company in Indonesia.
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Asia Pulp & Paper Ltd.
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