Capital Markets

Introduction

Effective access to capital is vital for economic growth, especially for Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest economy. With the Indonesia’s capital markets’ rapid growth in recent years, fuelled by regulatory reforms, system automation and market expansion, high calibre legal practitioners are required to keep abreast of such growth and changes.

Depth of experience

Our capital markets practitioners regularly advise Indonesian, international and multinational clients from a variety of industries on a broad range of capital market issues, both from the conventional and sharia perspectives. Our team members are experienced in handling local and cross-border capital markets transactions, including:

initial public offerings (IPOs);

rights issues;

corporate and government bond issuances (including exchangeable and convertible bonds) and warrants;

medium term notes;

commercial papers;

sukuk;

listings on the Indonesian and foreign stock exchanges;

employee stock option programs; and

acquisitions of publicly listed companies.

The team has also had considerable experience advising the Indonesian Ministry of Finance on capital markets transactions, including on several high-profile cross-border bond issuances over recent years and retail sukuk.

Our expertise and understanding of the Indonesian market enables us to provide innovative and commercially-oriented solutions to suit our clients’ unique needs and circumstances. Our lawyers have acquired invaluable experience working with all the key Indonesian capital markets regulators, including the Financial Services Authority (OJK) (formerly Bapepam-LK), Bank Indonesia, the Ministry of Finance, the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX), as well as key capital markets players, underwriters, investment houses and banks.