Jakarta, Indonesia Corporate & Investment Law Firm

Bahar & Partners

Menara Prima 18th Floor
Jl. Lingkar Mega Kuningan Blok 6.2
Jakarta 12950
Indonesia

+62 (21) 5794-7880

+62 (21) 5794-7881

www.baharandpartners.com

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Law Firm Overview

Bahar & Partners in Jakarta, Indonesia, provides legal services in the field of corporate law. Currently, Bahar & Partners provides legal services in the fields of Investment and Natural Resources, Infrastructure, Securities, Banking and Finance, Governance, Business Competitions and Commercial Disputes, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and Aviation and Maritime.

In line with its specialization in the field of corporate law, the mission of Bahar & Partners is to develop a highly competent legal consultant office which is responsive in providing legal services to its clients. To achieve such mission, Bahar & Partners recruits only legal consultants with high scholastic achievements from both domestically and internationally well-known universities. Realizing that formal education from universities alone is insufficient to produce reliable legal consultants, Bahar & Partners continuously conduct internal training programs designed to supplement our legal consultants’ academic capabilities with logical thinking process in dealing with real-life cases.

Bahar & Partners currently employs 30 lawyers in its office. All lawyers in Bahar & Partners are qualified to practice Indonesian law. The highly skilled lawyers and historical journey experienced by our firm created great values and has proven determination which remains with our firm in present time and will continuously develop throughout the upcoming future.

In each of its areas of service, Bahar & Partners has handled various domestic as well as international transactions involving diverse parties, both domestic and foreign parties, such as the Indonesian government, state-owned entities, private companies, banks, securities companies, mutual funds, and other institutions.

Practice Areas

Additional Practice Areas: Infrastructure; Power Supply; Toll Road; Airport/ Seaport; Real Property; Water Treatment and Supply.

Practice Areas Description

- Transportation

In line with the rapid development in the global economy, the world aviation and maritime industries have increased in number significantly. By capitalizing on the already proven capabilities of the firm in corporate law and in combination with our significant experience and understanding in aviation and maritime matters, Bahar & Partners believed that its aviation and maritime practice group has established its existence in Indonesia. Our commitment and dedication have been proven to lead to success as our firm has been entrusted to represent our clients in many diverse cases.

- Aviation & Maritime

In line with the rapid development in the global economy, the world aviation and maritime industries have increased in number significantly. By capitalizing on the already proven capabilities of the firm in corporate law and in combination with our significant experience and understanding in aviation and maritime matters, Bahar & Partners believed that its aviation and maritime practice group has established its existence in Indonesia. Our commitment and dedication have been proven to lead to success as our firm has been entrusted to represent our clients in many diverse cases.

- Investment

Bahar & Partners Investment Practice serves many of the major companies from various business sectors in connection with their most complex and important business transactions. We offer integrated legal services for potential foreign investors planning to invest in Indonesia. In fact, foreign investment is the original specialization of the firm. Our clients will benefit from consistent experience and the quality we provide.

- Natural Resources

Through the major deals we have handled in the Natural Resources practice area, Bahar & Partners is recognized as a pre-eminent law firm in a particular business sector. We have consistently studied this practice area and honed our lawyers’ skills in order to achieve a global reputation for being creative and responsive in handling natural resources related transactions. We offer multidisciplinary resources and deep industrial knowledge in this area to provide and deliver value-added solutions for our clients.

- Litigation

Based on our experience, we found that corporate litigation is closely related to the implementation of good governance in business practice, which has the fundamental intention of achieving the highest levels of prosperity for the stakeholders. In order to assist our clients to accomplish conducive growth in their business, we help them to resolve claims and disputes through the best possible mechanism to avoid the costly and timely dispute resolution procedures. We assist our clients to resolve disputes to reach a beneficial settlement as early as possible.

- Business Competition

Law No.5/1999 Concerning the Prohibition of Monopolistic Practices and Unfair Business Competition (Undang Undang Tentang Larangan Praktek Monopoli dan Persaingan Usaha Tidak Sehat) was enacted as one of the Government’s responses to restore the economy and the market after the economic crises in 1998. Nowadays, the Government is attempting to enhance the implementation of legal provisions required to promote the conduciveness and fairness in market practice.

- Governance

Globalization has driven business to implement good governance in their daily operations. The implementation of good corporate governance will directly influence the business to achieve success in expanding the market and strengthen their business organization.

- Capital Market

As a corporate legal firm, Bahar & Partners recognizes the important role that the capital market plays in the development of the Indonesian economy. We provide advice in relevance to capital market activities, including initial public offerings, rights issues, bond issuance and other capital market transactions both local and international. The firm has represented a wide variety of domestic and international public companies.

- Infrastructure

In line with the government’s initiatives to encourage foreign investment in Indonesia, domestic demand for infrastructure projects has increased quite significantly. The key to success in today’s infrastructure industry demands a thorough understanding of the intricate regulatory schemes and uncertain government policies.

- Power Supply

We advise project companies and sponsors to negotiate their participation terms in a consortium. We also assist EPC Contractors in preparing and negotiating the EPC Contracts as well as their arrangements with other third parties. In certain cases, we also act as an independent expert to assist our clients in solving their disputes.

- Toll Road

Bahar & Partners has broad experiences and involved in numerous tolls road projects in Indonesia. We advise and assist our esteemed clients on all aspects of toll road projects, starting from preparing bidding documents, negotiating financial support arrangements, preparing joint venture agreements as well as concession agreement with the Government.

- Airport/ Seaport

Bahar & Partners has been involved in various investment deals in connection with the development and privatization plan of major airports and seaports in Indonesia. We advise and assist our clients with regard to their investment plans, joint venture schemes, as well as legal issues pertaining to the development of airports and seaports in Indonesia. We also have experiences in advising clients to develop and operate special ports in Indonesia.

- Real Property

Bahar & Partners possesses an extensive knowledge and experiences in all legal aspects related to real estate projects in Indonesia. Our business-oriented approach identifies all relevant legal issues and weaves our clients’ business considerations into their resolutions. Among our clients are international corporations, local buyers and sellers of real property, and investment and property-management companies. Our past real estate practices include acquisition, company reorganization, construction contract, negotiation of project financing, and debt restructuring.

- Water Treatment & Supply

Bahar & Partners has been involved in several water treatments and water supply projects. As a legal counsel, we have represented our clients in the shares acquisition of major water companies in Indonesia. We also deal with several issues under the cooperation agreements, concessions, and the operation of municipal water systems. As a multi-disciplinary firm, we have professional resources to address broad scope of questions and to provide our clients with a full range of legal services.

- Banking & Finance

As a corporate legal firm, Bahar & Partners recognizes the important role that banks and other financiers play in the development of the Indonesian economy. Our Securities, Banking & Finance practice area offers the full range of securities, banking and financial legal services.

- Corporate Finance

Our team has an extensive experience in advising matters related to corporate finance, structure finance and securitization, which involved our firm in conventional and sharia-based transactions such as general corporate transactions, leveraged buy-out and loan refinancing, issuance of senior secured notes, securing a syndicated financing facility and the procurement of other credit facilities.

- Debt Restructing

Attorneys of Bahar & Partners deliver a totally high effort with remarkable results in advising and overcoming the challenges inherent with debt restructuring projects. We have been entrusted as legal counsel of well-recognized creditors, which consist of leading business actors in various sectors of business, involving great amount of debt worth and erratic debt restructuring exercises.

- Project Finance

In line with improving the quality of infrastructure provision in Indonesia, we have assisted several project companies in dealing with prime contracts and agreements. We have advised a wide range of companies engaging in various sectors such as mining, toll road, gas supply, electricity, property and other infrastructure projects.

- Private Equity

We have experienced working with clients with regard to the assistance in establishing an offshore private equity funds and the formation of collective investment Contract with Limited Participation. Bahar & Partners also has experiences in providing legal consultations to prominent private equity companies with regard to their business operations and investments in Indonesia.