INDONESIA Law and Practice Contributed by: Chandrawati Dewi, Gustaaf Reerink and Bilal Anwari, ABNR Counsellors at Law
ABNR Counsellors at Law is Indonesia’s long - est-established law firm (founded 1967) and pioneered the development of international commercial law in the country following the reopening of its economy to foreign investment after a period of isolationism in the early 1960s. With more than 100 partners and lawyers (in - cluding three foreign counsel), ABNR is the larg - est independent full-service law firm in Indone - sia and one of the country’s top three law firms by number of fee earners, giving it the scale
needed to simultaneously handle large and complex transnational deals across a range of practice areas. ABNR also has global reach as the exclusive Lex Mundi (LM) member firm for Indonesia since 1991. LM is the world’s leading network of independent law firms, with mem - bers in more than 100 countries. ABNR’s posi - tion as LM member firm for Indonesia was re - confirmed for a further six-year period in 2018. ABNR is ranked as a Band 1 firm for antitrust/ competition by Chambers Asia-Pacific.
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
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
capital markets. In M&A 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.
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 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.
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