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Date: Thu 25 Jul 2024 Time: 12.15pm-6.30pm Venue: Hotel Indonesia Kempinski Jakarta Jl. MH. Thamrin No. 1 · Jakarta 10310 · Indonesia

The Legal 500 is delighted to formally announce the third edition of GC Summit Indonesia, taking place on 25th July 2024 in Jakarta.

Join leading practitioners and esteemed in-house counsel for comprehensive panel discussions, presentations, and networking opportunities. The Legal 500’s GC Summit Indonesia will provide practical insights into the evolving role of in-house counsel and the challenges that in-house legal departments are set to face in 2024 and beyond.

In association with our partners for this event, the event will include a series of sessions covering a variety of cutting edge and up to date topics for discussion, such as:

  • Creating an ESG Roadmap: Reporting & disclosure obligations – How ready is your company?
  • Managing cross-border disputes
  • Opportunity in complexity and volatility – getting deals done in Indonesia
  • Beyond the General Counsel role: charting a purposeful career path
  • The impact of artificial intelligence on the legal world
  • Building an effective governance programme
  • Data: from compliance to capitalization
  • Managing internal investigations
  • Navigating an ever-changing employment landscape

Drawing on the vast experience of our highly accomplished speakers, this event will provide practical, hands-on advice to all in-house counsel.

It is a must-attend event for any in-house lawyers in Indonesia looking to reach the next level of their professional development.

Agenda

12.15pm – 12.50pm  Registration 

12.50pm – 1.00pm Welcome Address and Opening Remarks

  • Dewi Savitri Reni, partner, SSEK Law Firm
  • Joe Boswell, global editor – Powerlist Series, The Legal 500

1.00pm – 1.50pm Revolutionizing Work: Navigating Indonesia’s New Employment Frontiers

  • Vinay Ahuja, partner, managing director, Indonesia & Singapore, head of regional banking and finance for Indonesia and Singapore
  • Afriyan Rachmad, partner, Nusantara DFDL Partnership
  • Sri Wahyu Ningsih, partner, Nusantara DFDL Partnership

1.50pm – 2.20pm Financing and restructuring in Indonesia

2.20pm – 3.00pm Going Digital: Practical guidance on cybersecurity challenges in the world of AI

  • Harun Reksodiputro, partner, Ginting & Reksodiputro in association with A&O Shearman
  • Saranpaal Calais, partner, A&O Shearman, Singapore
  • Anna Gamvros, partner, A&O Shearman, Sydney

3.00pm – 3.20pm Coffee Break

3.20pm – 4.10pm Managing International Disputes

  • Bryan Bernadi, partner, AFS Partnership Law Firm

4.10pm – 4.40pm Placing the focus on Fintech and data management

4.40pm – 5.30pm The in-house perspective and changing role of in-house counsel

  • Randi Ikhlas Sardoni, group general counsel, Hijra

5.30pm – 5.35pm Closing Remarks

  • Joe Boswell, global editor – Powerlist Series, The Legal 500

5.35pm – 6.30pm Networking Drinks

Speakers

Dewi Savitri Reni, partner, SSEK Law Firm

Dewi Savitri Reni (Vitri) is a partner at SSEK Law Firm. She has a broad practice and extensive experience advising major Indonesian companies and Fortune 500 entities. Vitri has received numerous accolades and awards for her work.
Vitri earned her LL.M. from the UC Berkeley School of Law, which she attended on a Fulbright scholarship, and is admitted to practice law in both Indonesia and New York.
Vitri sits on the Ethics Committee of the Indonesian Fintech Association (AFPI) and the Young Singapore International Arbitration Centre (YSIAC) Committee and is head of the Continuing Legal Education Committee of the Indonesian Bar Association (Peradi SAI).

Harun Reksodiputro, partner, Ginting & Reksodiputro in association with A&O Shearman

Harun is a distinguished expert in corporate and commercial law and recognised as one of the leading M&A lawyers in Indonesia.
Offering expertise in public and private M&A, capital markets, corporate restructurings, and antitrust, Harun has played a key role in some recent groundbreaking deals.
His extensive experience extends across various sectors including TMT, FIG and fintech, infrastructure, energy transition, and healthcare. Harun maintains strong working relationships with multinational corporations and Indonesian conglomerates as well as government entities and officials.

Vinay Ahuja, partner, managing director, Indonesia & Singapore, head of regional banking and finance for Indonesia and Singapore

Vinay is a seasoned Partner and Group Leader of the Regional Banking & Finance Practice Group, with expertise in fintech and technology. With an impressive 18 years of transactional and advisory experience, including more than a decade in Southeast Asia with DFDL, Vinay has advised a diverse range of clients, including domestic and international banks, sponsors, private and institutional investors, insurance companies, development banks, governments, agencies, and state-owned enterprises.
His extensive experience spans domestic and cross-border finance transactions such as commercial and institutional lending, acquisition and leveraged finance, project finance, securitization and structured finance, derivatives, secured and unsecured transactions, as well as regulatory advice and compliance. Vinay not only leads the firm’s Indonesia Practice but also serves as the head of the India Desk, solidifying his expertise in these regions. Additionally, he cultivates and manages key client relationships while serving as one of the firm’s sector leaders in the Banking and Finance domain

Joe Boswell, global editor - Powerlist Series, The Legal 500

Joe Boswell has been a part of The Legal 500’s editorial team, specialising on the in-house legal community, for more than seven years. He now heads The Powerlist team, acting as chief editor for the over 40 separate editions of the GC Powerlist series which serve as The Legal 500’s flagship title celebrating the world’s top in-house counsel, as well as Global Editor for The Legal 500’s Private Practice Powerlist Series.
During the course of researching for the GC Powerlist series, Boswell has interviewed a vast number of world-renowned general counsel, chief legal officers, and legal directors about overcoming the challenges they face, their legal innovations, and how they see the general counsel role progressing in coming years. As well as this, he is a regular speaker at Legal 500 summits, roundtables, award ceremonies and other events, and often writes in-depth reports on business and legal issues.
Boswell is an alumnus of both the University of Sussex in The United Kingdom and the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in The Netherlands.

Randi Ikhlas Sardoni, group general counsel, Hijra

Randi is a seasoned General Counsel in the financial services industry and has been practicing law since 2010 at a prominent Indonesian law firm in Jakarta, later dedicating his career as in-house counsel to the financial services industry. He has worked in a stated-owned bank (Bank Negara Indonesia), and as General Counsel at multinational life insurance companies (Panin Dai-ichi Life and Great Eastern Life). Currently he is the Group General Counsel at Hijra, a leading sharia compliant and driven financial technology group of companies in the Digital Bank and Peer to Peer Lending space, where he leads dozens of lawyers and a compliance squad of the group companies.
Randi also holds position as Legal Advisor at the AASI (Association of Indonesia Sharia Insurance) and the IIS (Islamic Insurance Society) where he is actively involved in providing input for the regulations related to insurance business in general and sharia insurance business in particular.
His works has been acknowledged  by the Legal500 in prestigious publications such as the GC Powerlist – Southeast Asia and shortlisted as the In-House Rising Star Southeast Asia Awards. In his spare time, Randi enjoys playing golf and tennis and do some pro bono teaching for law school students.

Afriyan Rachmad, partner, Nusantara DFDL Partnership

Afriyan is a Partner at Nusantara DFDL Partnership, an Indonesian law firm and a DFDL collaborating firm. He is a projects and infrastructure specialist with particular expertise in resources and infrastructure projects who advises clients on corporate & commercial matters, mergers and acquisitions, due diligence transactions including construction sectors.
He represents clients and assists government institutions and regulators on major infrastructure projects in the sectors of aviation, toll roads, electricity, and land and sea transportation, including mass rapid transportation, renewable energy and shipping. In addition, he also has experience in dispute resolution and litigation which includes arbitration proceedings, civil, employment/industrial relations, competition & anti-trust and criminal throughout various court levels in Indonesia.

Sri Wahyu Ningsih, partner, Nusantara DFDL Partnership

Sri is a Partner at Nusantara DFDL Partnership, an Indonesian law firm and a DFDL collaborating firm. Sri’s areas of expertise cover investment law, labour and employment, immigration, tourism, consumer protection, general corporate and commercial matters. She has advised numerous foreign clients on share and asset acquisitions operating in various sectors such as; mining, shipping, trading, tourism and hospitality, industrial and manufacturing.
Sri regularly assists foreign clients on the establishment of local subsidiaries (including joint venture companies and special purpose entities) to facilitate their market entry and business activities in Indonesia. This has included guiding clients through the complexity of the application process with the Indonesia Investment Coordinating Board and helping them secure the licenses and permits required under Indonesian law in alignment with their business objectives and contemplated activities.

Saranpaal Calais, partner, A&O Shearman, Singapore

Saranpaal is a technology and digital lawyer, advising clients in APAC on a wide range of strategic technology transactions including tech-driven collaborations and joint ventures, digital transformation projects, software development and licensing, cloud computing and complex commercial contracting. Saranpaal regularly advises on the tech and data aspects of fintech, ecommerce, payments, insurtech and digital assets, and well as on the commercialisation of emerging technologies including AI, blockchain, and advanced robotics. Saranpaal also advises on the operational aspects of mobile telecoms and digital infrastructure deals.

Anna Gamvros, partner, A&O Shearman, Sydney

Anna is Head of Asia Pacific Privacy and Cyber. Anna focuses on privacy and data protection; cybersecurity and breach response; technology agreements; cloud and digital transformation projects; and technology regulatory issues.

Anna is one of the leading data protection lawyers in Asia-Pacific and has worked on some of the largest and most high-profile cybersecurity breaches in the region involving a variety of threats and threat actors. She has experience in dealing with regulators across multiple jurisdictions in terms of both making data breach notifications and handling investigations with respect to data breaches and non-compliance with privacy laws.

Bryan Bernadi, partner, AFS Partnership Law Firm

Bryan Bernadi (Bryan) is a partner at AFS Partnership Law Firm. In more than 17 years of practice, Bryan has handled numerous high-profile cases and cross border commercial disputes from various industries. He specializes in commercial disputes, arbitration, and administrative law.

Bryan was awarded as one of the best alumni from Faculty of Law, Catholic Parahyangan University, graduated in 2008. He also finished postgraduate program from University of Pelita Harapan in 2015. In his college years he served as the Chief of Law Students Organization from 2007 to 2008. Bryan has been actively participating in the legal aid foundation since 2006. Bryan is a Member of the Indonesia Advocates Association (PERADI) and Member of Association Advocates of Indonesia Officium Nobile (AAI ON).

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