INDONESIA Law and Practice Contributed by: Chandrawati Dewi, Gustaaf Reerink and Bilal Anwari, ABNR Counsellors at Law
ABNR Counsellors at Law is Indonesia’s longest-es - tablished law firm (founded in 1967) and has played a pivotal role in shaping the development of interna - tional commercial law in the country, particularly dur - ing its economic reopening to foreign investment in the 1960s. Today, with a team of around 120 legal professionals – including 20 partners and three for - eign counsels – ABNR stands as Indonesia’s largest
independent, full-service law firm. ABNR has con - sistently maintained its position as a top-tier law firm since its establishment. As the exclusive Indonesian member of Lex Mundi since 1991 – the world’s lead - ing network of independent law firms with represen - tation in over 100 countries – the firm provides seam - less global reach for its clients.
Authors
Chandrawati Dewi was made partner at ABNR Counsellors at Law on 1 January 2009 and focuses her practice on M&A, foreign direct investment (FDI), competition/ antitrust, and capital markets. In M&A
Indonesia. He regularly reviews commercial agreements from an antitrust perspective and has been involved in corporate internal investigations relating to antitrust issues for a range of multinational clients with operations in Indonesia. Gustaaf also regularly assists international and regional law firms with Indonesian competition law aspects of global and foreign-to-foreign deals.
and FDI, she advises high-end domestic and international clients operating in various sectors, including agriculture and plantations, trading, multilevel-marketing, automotive, and groundside aviation. Dewi was joint head of the ABNR team that handled Grab’s acquisition of Uber’s South-East Asia assets, the largest deal ever of its kind in the region. In addition, she jointly led the team that worked on the Indonesian aspects of Global Infrastructure Partners’ USD5 billion acquisition of Equis Energy, the largest renewable energy deal ever.
Bilal Anwari is a partner at ABNR Counsellors at Law and is a seasoned commercial litigator and member of the firm’s disputes and ADR
department, whose diverse practice focuses on competition and antitrust, restructuring and insolvency, commercial litigation, arbitration and ADR, and anti-corruption and compliance. He is lauded as “Up and Coming” for competition/antitrust by Chambers Asia-Pacific. Bilal successfully defended Temasek Holdings, a Singapore state-owned enterprise and investment fund, over an allegation of cross-ownership in the telecommunications sector. He has handled numerous merger notifications and cases before the KPPU. Bilal undertakes competition compliance due diligence on the commercial arrangements and operations of clients, and advises on distribution and joint venture agreements.
Gustaaf Reerink is foreign counsel at ABNR Counsellors at Law, advising clients across a broad range of industries. The only lawyer in Indonesia to be ranked in the spotlight table as a foreign legal
consultant for competition/antitrust by Chambers Asia-Pacific, Gustaaf focuses on cartel, dominant position and merger control matters, and has worked on several landmark merger control cases in
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