Clifford Chance is renowned as a top-rate firm for its activity in Indonesia and Southeast Asia as a whole. The firm offers services across a wide array of practice areas within the jurisdiction, including capital markets, bank financing, M&A, construction, restructurings and dispute resolution. With a large pool of practitioners capable of operating on Indonesian matters, the practice regularly acts for clients in complex, cross-border issues that are often high-profile or high-value. Melissa Ng leads the firm’s Indonesia Group and handles M&A work for her longstanding clients. Thomas England specialises in leverage and acquisition finance, restructuring and insolvency, while Shaun Langhorne focuses his practice on complex, multi-stakeholder and cross-border restructuring matters across the region. In addition, Gareth Deiner is practiced in the debt capital markets sector and Matthew Buchanan is expert in construction matters concerning infrastructure.
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Key clients
- Home Credit Group B.V.
- CVC Capital Partners
- Star Energy Group Holdings Pte Ltd
- PTT International Holding Limited
- PT Medco Energi Internasional Tbk
- Tolaram Group Inc.
- Indonesia Investment Authority
- Navis Capital Partners
- BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Credit Suisse and Mandiri Sekuritas, and underwriters DBS, OCBC and UOB Kay Hian
- PT Jayamas Medica Industri Tbk
- Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, Standard Chartered Bank and Barclays as Placement Agents
- Barclays, ANZ and SCB
- BNY Mellon
- Macquarie Aircraft Leasing Services
- ICBC International Leasing Co., Ltd
- SMBC Aviation Capital Limited
- Avolon Aerospace Leasing Limited
- Perusahaan Listrik Negara (Persero) PT
- ACEN Corporation
Work highlights
- Advising each of the individual lessors and the ad hoc group of aircraft lessors on the restructuring of the Indonesian state-owned and listed airline PT Garuda Indonesia (Persero) Tbk and certain of its subsidiaries.
- Advised the joint lead underwriters BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Credit Suisse and Mandiri Sekuritas, and underwriters DBS, OCBC and UOB Kay Hian on the US and international aspects of PT Trimegah Bangun Persada Tbk's initial public offering and listing on the Indonesia Stock Exchange.
- Advised Home Credit Group B.V. on its agreement to sell 100% of its Philippines and Indonesian consumer finance businesses to a consortium of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group affiliates, led by Krungsri Bank, in deals worth approximately €615m.
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Melissa Ng