Our work

Widyawan & Partners is one of Indonesia's leading full-service law firms. Specialising in Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions, and Projects & Infrastructure, we offer access to the types of challenges that other organisations would struggle to match. With colleagues and offices across the world, our global reach and collaborative approach allows us to offer an exceptional range of legal services to our international client-base.

Our formal association with leading international firm Linklaters means that we can provide clients with seamless worldwide legal guidance. As experts in both international and Indonesian law with an excellent knowledge of the Indonesian regulatory environment, we have a strong record of executing seamless transactions in Indonesia. Furthermore, our capacity to deliver a streamlined client service on a global level allows us to deliver a consistently exceptional degree of customer service – providing our colleagues with a uniquely forward-thinking working environment. As a result, our Lawyers have worked with many of the largest domestic and international corporations on some of the industry’s most pressing issues, providing the whole team with a deep and current understanding of the market.

Banking & Finance

We provide leading advice on Indonesia's financial regulatory framework, creating appropriate business and investment structures for the firm's clients. Areas that we specialise in are:

  • Banking
  • Corporate Finance
  • Project Finance & Leasing
  • Secured Lending
  • Insurance
  • Debt Restructuring
  • Securitisation

Capital Markets

We act on behalf of issuers, arrangers and underwriters on many debt and equity issues, including IPOs, secondary offerings, mutual funds, convertible bonds, note issues, swap transactions and other derivative products. Adhering to the highest standards, all of our Indonesia practice Capital Markets Lawyers are licensed by the Capital Market and Financial Institutions Supervisory Board of Indonesia (Bapepam). Maintaining sector-leading knowledge in the field, this team are deeply experienced in advising on public takeovers, insider trading and other regulations affecting listed companies.

Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions

As one of Indonesia's earliest corporate practices, we have over 30 years of experience in advising clients on their most important and complicated cross-border deals. Tapping into this wealth of knowledge, we are capable of guiding both new entrants to the market and long-standing market participants on the intricacies of the Indonesian legal system and international law regulations. The core sectors that we support clients in, are:

  • Financial Institutions (Banks & Insurance)
  • Energy & Infrastructure (including Mining and Oil & Gas)
  • Private Equity
  • Healthcare
  • TMT (including Fintech)
  • Retail & Consumer
  • Food & Beverages
  • Pharma & Life Sciences

Energy & Natural Resources

We represent major international domestic energy and natural resources companies, investors, lenders, underwriters, traders and governments. Playing a vital role in establishing, financing and operating new projects, we have worked across a vast array of areas including:

  • Oil & Gas
  • Energy
  • General Mining
  • Agriculture & Plantations
  • Water

Infrastructure & Projects

We also have a proven track record in acting for governments, sponsors, contractors and financiers on major infrastructure projects in Indonesia. Maintaining an industry-leading level of expertise in project finance, public procurement, environmental law, construction, agrarian law, competition law and local regulations, we are fluent in projects affecting:

  • Construction
  • Telecommunications
  • Transport