Frequently Asked Questions

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Company Deed Of Amendment

A company deed of amendment is mandatory whenever there are changes to the composition of shareholders’ ownership, leadership structure (i.e., directors or commissioners), capital structure (authorized or paid-up capital), the company’s legal domicile, line of business activities, etc.

A company deed of amendment is essential under the Indonesian legal framework to ensure legal recognition, compliance with applicable regulations, transparency in corporate governance, fulfillment of contractual obligations, risk management, and proper recordkeeping of significant changes within a company.

Failing to execute a company deed of amendment may result in various legal consequences and sanctions, as follows:

• Administrative Sanctions
• Loss of Legal Standing
• Non-Compliance Consequences
• Legal Challenges
• Voidability of Actions

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Company Liquidation

Company liquidation under Indonesian law refers to a structured legal process by which a company closes its operations, distributes its remaining assets, and ultimately dissolves (winds up) its legal existence. It involves various stakeholders and requires compliance with specific legal procedures outlined in Indonesian company and bankruptcy laws.

We can assist you every step of the way in the process of liquidating (winding up) your company, from initiation to completion.

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Document Translation

Documents translation is crucial for businesses, individuals, and organizations needing documents translated from one language to another, often for legal, administrative, or commercial purposes.

Let’s partner with us for expert Translation Documents services in Indonesia. Whether you require translations for business contracts, personal documents, or legal agreements, we are here to assist you with professionalism and dedication.

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Legalization & Notarization of Documents in Indonesia

Legalization & Notarization of Indonesian documents are crucial that ensure the validity, authenticity, and official recognition for various purposes. In Indonesia, documents must undergo legalization or attestation by the Indonesian government, sometimes requiring notarization by a licensed notary public. This process is essential for validating documents for use both domestically and internationally.

The essential steps typically include:

• Legalization at the Ministry of Law and Human Rights.
• Legalization at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• Legalization at the relevant Embassy or Consulate.

Additional actions may be necessary, such as translating the document into English or another foreign language, notarizing the document, and obtaining legalization from other government institutions.
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Real Estate / Property & Land Acquisition

We help individuals and corporations navigate the complexities of real estate/property and land acquisition transactions in Indonesia. Whether you are buying, selling, investing, or leasing commercial property or land, our experienced lawyers are here to assist you with expert legal guidance and support to make the process smooth and stress-free.

Our Services Include:

• Due Diligence and Property Document Assessment
  We verify property ownership, titles, and any related issues that may affect the transaction.
• Negotiation and Contract Drafting
  We assist in drafting and negotiating favorable terms and conditions for property or land acquisition transactions, including purchase or lease agreements to protect your interest and adhere to Indonesian legal requirements.
• Legal Compliance and Documentation
  We guide and advise you through legal requirements for property or land acquisition and ensure that all documentation such as title deeds is properly prepared, reviewed, and submitted.
• Title Transfer and Registration
  We oversee the transfer of property or land titles and registration, ensuring compliance with Indonesian land regulations (agrarian law).
• Dispute Resolution
  In case of property or land disputes, our experienced lawyer provides strategic representation in negotiations, mediation, or litigation proceedings to protect and safeguard your rights and interests.

Protecting your Intellectual Property (IP) rights is critical for maintaining control over your creations and maximizing profitability. It protects against unauthorized use, builds brand identity, attracts investment, and promotes long-term business sustainability. By protecting your IP rights, you ensure that your hard work and creativity are properly rewarded, thereby contributing to the success of your business.

Our mission is to protect, enforce, and leverage the intellectual property assets of our clients to their maximum potential. Our team of seasoned legal professionals is dedicated to providing comprehensive and tailored legal solutions that meet the unique needs of each client.

We assist clients with Intellectual Property (IP) legal advice, negotiation, and relevant agreement documents, searching, registration, protection, and enforcement of the following IP areas:

• TRADEMARK
• PATENT
• COPYRIGHT
• INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
• DISPUTE SETTLEMENT ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (IP) MATTERS THROUGH INDONESIAN COURT.

Why should you protect your Intellectual Property (IP) Rights?

• Exclusive Control Over Your Creations
• Maximizing Revenue and Profitability
• Encouraging Innovation and Creativity
• Preventing Unauthorized Use and Infringement
• Building Brand Identity and Trust
• Securing Investment and Funding
• Facilitating Business Expansion
• Long-Term Business Sustainability

We assist clients in the business transaction roadmap, share, and asset acquisition transactions, reorganizations, mergers & acquisitions. Providing a comprehensive identification of legal issues, ensuring regulatory compliance, and document preparation before entering into deals and transactions.

Types of Merger & Acquisitions transactions under Indonesian Law which we can assist you:

• Integration Merger
  Two or more companies merge, all assets and liabilities are legally transferred to one of the companies, and the remaining company is legally liquidated.
• Consolidation Merger
  Two or more companies merge to form a new company, and the existing companies are legally liquidated after the merger, all assets and liabilities are transferred to a new company.
• Shares or Assets Acquisitions
  A company or individual acquires shares of another company resulting in a change of control in that company.

How do we assist you with Merger & Acquisitions (M&A):

• We conduct legal due diligence to identify potential legal risks and liabilities
• We provide legal advice on legal compliance, which may encompass security laws, antitrust regulations, investment laws, and related regulations
• We structure the M&A deal to optimize benefits for your company, taking into consideration your business objectives, legal consequences, and other legal consideration
• We evaluate legal risks and propose mitigation strategies, which may involve legal procedures, representations, warranties, and other protective measures.

Why do you need our legal assistance on your Merger & Acquisitions (M&A) transaction?

• We make sure that the legal aspects of the M&A transaction are adequately addressed and that your business interests are safeguarded
• We minimize the potential legal risks of minor errors and negligence that could potentially jeopardize the transaction
• We provide tactical advice during negotiation
• We provide valuable legal guidance on how best to structure the transaction, conduct thorough due diligence, and identify both risks and opportunities

Legal Due Diligence (LDD) is a legal examination or legal audit to make sure that the upcoming business transaction is worthy, it is a critical part of any upcoming transaction and it needs to be done thoroughly.

We provide legal due diligence to support clients with a clear legal perspective on any upcoming business transaction or other legal matters. This involves a comprehensive examination of client or counterpart business, corporate documentation, business operation license or permits, material contracts, assets, HR or employment matters, intellectual property, and historical as well as current legal disputes, along with elaboration on potential legal challenges that may affect the success of upcoming transactions.

Why do you need to conduct legal due diligence?

• the ultimate goal is to check under the hood and verify that everything is in order
• to obtain a legal perspective on your company or the target company
• identify the ‘deal-breaking’ issues
• you should consider one question: “is there any legal reason why we should or should not acquire this company?”
• minimize the risk of unforeseen legal liabilities after the transaction has been completed

The following are the phases of legal due diligence:

• Preparation
  This phase is setting the goals and priorities. We consistently prioritize crucial data to determine which information is most important.
• Legal Examination
  Our lawyers are collecting facts and documents to seek legal findings and to formulate a legal opinion to make sure that the upcoming business transaction is worthy. Our lawyers will structure the legal examination around the primary question or objectives. This is also an opportune moment to assist our lawyers in grasping the overall picture of your company.
• Result (Report and Legal Opinion)
  A report of the legal due diligence highlighting the most significant legal findings and a clear legal opinion will be provided by our lawyers.

Selected Project Handled:

• Assisting in Legal Due Diligence for a Malaysian company to conduct the acquisition of an Indonesian mining company.
• Assisting in Legal Due Diligence for an Indonesian construction company to conduct the acquisition of another Indonesian construction company.

Taking the role of our client’s corporate legal counsel and helping our clients navigate the increasingly complex Indonesian regulatory landscape, we do general commercial work and regularly advise on the full life cycle of business matters.

Corporate legal compliance is the most priority legal concern for all sizes of companies and across all sectors and industries. With the potential legal risks of non-compliance being a great issue in the near future, a company needs to make sure that they are doing business legally and mitigate potential legal issues so that the business will run smoothly.

Our lawyers possess extensive technical experience in providing advice, guidance, preparing documentation, and legal compliance on a broad range of issues arising from day-to-day operational activities related to general and commercial matters.

Our goals are to simplify complex legal matters, defend and safeguard our clients’ business interests, minimize potential legal risk, and maximize results for our clients.

Why do you need our General Corporate, Legal Advisory & Legal Compliance service?

• We assist the legal corporate works at any stage of your corporate business practice
• we prepare and manage the draft, review, and negotiate a legally binding agreement or contract on behalf of your company
• We help you to create and advise the framework for how a company is run and managed under the Indonesian complex legal landscape
• We advise you to ensure your company’s legal compliance under the Indonesian regulatory regime
• We assist you with your business transactional matters
• We represent you during the negotiation of your business partner to close the deal
• We regularly update the new implementing Indonesian laws and regulations that affect your company’s business

We provide legal advice on all forms of commercial contracts and arrangements to support our clients’ day-to-day and strategic business activities with specialist expertise across all sectors under the Indonesian regulatory regimes.

We can assist you in all phases of business arrangements, including contract negotiation, contract drafting, contract review, and contract execution, from a simple contract to a complex transaction agreement.

Our experienced lawyers in representing clients to prepare and review many types of contracts enable us to provide valuable insight from multiple perspectives tailored to our client’s unique needs.

Our lawyers can help you with a wide range of commercial and contract law needs, including but not limited to:

Those lists of legal contracts are non-limiting, meaning that we can prepare and provide you with such legal contracts at your request, depending on your unique needs.

Why do you need our lawyer’s assistance to draft, negotiate, or review a contract?

• help prevent a breach of contract and other disputes
• ensure the contract is legally valid and enforceable
• create a clear reflection of the understanding, duties, and obligations of the parties to the agreement
• ensure the contract reflects what the parties intended
• incorporate beneficial terms that a party may have overlooked
• defend and safeguard your business interest.

Legal expertise plays a crucial role in ensuring efficient operations, safeguarding interest, and maximizing opportunities. Whether you are an investor or a corporation seeking strategic legal advice on your particular situation, our lawyers possess extensive experience across diverse industries so that we can offer the best practical, clear, and commercial legal solutions based on your unique needs and long-term objectives, with due regard to the changing legal and applicable law.

Built on our expertise and experience, we have advised and provided legal opinion to our clients with numerous legal and business matters, ranging from individual clients to corporations.

Among the most common ways we provide legal advice to our clients are by supporting:

• Legal advice regarding foreign investment or company establishment matters in various forms of characteristics;
• Legal advice on general corporate matters;
• Legal advice on such business transaction matters;
• Legal advice on litigation and legal dispute matters;
• Legal advice on restructuring/reorganization, bankruptcy & insolvency matters;
• Legal advice on employment & industrial relation matters;
• Legal advice on individual and family matters;
• Legal advice on taxation matters.

What is Legal Opinion?

Legal Opinion is a document prepared in writing by our lawyers or legal consultant that contains legal knowledge, legal analysis, and legal recommendations for:

• clients who wish to understand such legal issues and potential legal risks they will or are currently facing;
• clients who wish to understand such applicable regulations related to their business activities and how to ensure legal compliance under the Indonesian law.

Suppose you are a company or individual business owner intending to enter into an important business transaction or any legal matter with another Indonesian company (PT). In that case, you may wish to conduct research or check on your counterparty’s profile first.

It is important to conduct preliminary checks on your counterparty background profile before having such a transaction with them, this is because some businesses may be unreliable such that they do not perform their obligations, whether these are contractual, administrative, or illegal which may lead to serious business losses.

The company registry in Indonesia comprises detailed information on the legal background of the Indonesian company (PT), as it is registered in the Indonesian Ministry of Law and Human Rights.

The report contains the following:

• Company Status and details

• Legal entity type and status
• Company domicile
• List of business activities
• Date of deed changes

• Capital and Shareholder details

• List of shareholders
• List of directors and commissioners
• Amount of authorized and paid-up capital

• History of the Indonesian company (PT)

• All changes in the capital
• All changes in shareholders, directors, and commissioners
• All changes in the deed

Suppose you are a busy business owner or a company dealing with several legal corporate matters and need Indonesian legal assistance from legal experts, as well as you wish to focus on your business. In that case, you may need our corporate client’s retained legal service.

We are aware of the need businesses have for comprehensive, continuous, and in-depth legal expert support. We provide our clients with a retainer service to address all of you legal needs. Rather than working on a project basis or an hourly basis, we are always available to our clients and meet your needs.

Our lawyers will manage all legal matters for the corporate client on non-litigation works, providing practical advice, and a more timely, cost-effective, strategic, and satisfying quality of work.

We have regularly assisted and advised some Indonesian companies, as well as multinational companies from overseas, and businesses based on a retainer legal service fee scheme in their daily business activities.

What is included in the Retainer Legal Service Fee? Here are the following:

• General Corporate & Commercial Legal Advisory
  As your company’s legal counsel, we assist the legal corporate works at any stage of your corporate business practice.
• Compliance, License & Business Operation Legal Assistance
  We help you to create and advise the framework for how a company is run and managed under the Indonesian complex legal landscape.
  We advise you to ensure your company’s legal compliance under the Indonesian regulatory regime.
  We assist you with your business transactional matters.
• Contract Drafting and Review
  We prepare and manage the draft, review, and negotiate a legally binding agreement or contract on behalf of your company.
• Negotiation
  We represent your company during the negotiation with your business partner to close the deal.
• Employment and Industrial Relations
  We provide practical legal advice to your company on employment and industrial relations matters.
  We prepare the draft and review your company’s employment contract.
  We represent your company in the first stage of an employment dispute.
• Preliminary Legal Action
  We represent your company to defend and safeguard your company’s rights against your counterparts, starting from preparing and executing the Demand Letter and negotiation stage.
• Intellectual Property Rights
  We protect your company’s intellectual property rights, starting from screening, licensing, registration, renewal matters, and contract cooperation with other parties.
• Legal Training
• We provide your company with legal training activity in various legal areas.

Why should you consider our Retainer Legal Service Fee scheme? Here are the benefits:

• Cost Predictability
  You know exactly how much you will be spending on legal services each year, allowing for better budgeting and financial planning.
• More Cost Effective and Efficiency
  You can prevent expensive cost legal problems solving.
• Our Legal Support Whenever You Need
  You can get our advice whenever you need legal support, which will allow you to greater productivity. You are more likely to seek legal advice early on, which can help you prevent potential legal risks from escalating into costly disputes.
• Risk Mitigation
  That is no longer the case when it comes to disputes, as expenses can skyrocket far more than the initial disputed amount.
• A Trusted Legal Advisors, an extension of your team
  You can get a different perspective by having a neutral person assist, review the facts, and advise you objectively.
• Unlimited Access
  You have unlimited access to legal advice and support throughout the year, without worrying about additional costs for each interaction.
• Time Savings
  You can save time by having legal matters handled efficiently and effectively by our experienced professionals, allowing you to focus on running your business.