Hiswara Bunjamin & Tandjung (HBT) is an Indonesian commercial law firm based in Jakarta. The firm provides high quality and innovative Indonesian legal services to an international standard, based on informed and commercially relevant local knowledge and advice. HBT has five Indonesian partners. In addition, Herbert Smith corporate partner David Dawborn is on long-term secondment to HBT, as Senior Foreign Counsel.
David has advised on a wide range of major transactions and projects in Indonesia since the early 1990s and is fluent in Bahasa Indonesia. Herbert Smith senior associate Brian Scott, who worked previously in the corporate division in London and Singapore, is also now based at HBT in Jakarta.
HBT provides legal services across all aspects of Indonesian commercial and corporate law, with particular expertise in the following areas:
- M&A
- foreign and domestic investment
- energy, oil and gas, mining and power
- banking and finance and debt restructurings
- capital markets (debt and equity)
- privatisations and infrastructure
- corporate and business structuring
- telecommunications, media and technology
- employment and industrial relations
- competition and consumer protection
- intellectual property
- disputes
The firm represents a wide range of blue chip multi-national corporations and financial institutions investing and operating in Indonesia. The firm’s disputes practice is focused on representing the interests of foreign parties in Indonesian litigation and arbitration proceedings.
HBT works closely with Herbert Smith’s Asian offices, in particular with Singapore which has a well-developed South-East Asian practice, and Herbert Smith Tokyo in representing the interests of many large investments and business interests of Japanese corporates in Indonesia. It is further supported by our European offices and by our alliance partners Gleiss Lutz and Stibbe.
- For further information about our Jakarta practice please contact David Dawborn.
Accolades
Asia Law Firm of the year award
Global Chamber Awards 2007
Ranked first tier for six consecutive years in Projects and Energy, Indonesia
Asia Pacific Legal 500, 2004-2009
Ranked first tier for two consecutive years in Corporate/ M&A, Indonesia
Asia Pacific Legal 500, 2008-2009
Ranked first tier in Dispute Resolution, Indonesia
Chambers Asia, 2009
Ranked first tier for three consecutive years in Banking, Indonesia
IFLR 1000, 2007-2009
Ranked first tier for two consecutive years in Mergers and Acquisitions, Indonesia
IFLR 1000, 2008-2009
This “fully committed group” has made its mark through its “deeply experienced and excellent team of lawyers.” Benefiting from a close relationship with international firm Herbert Smith, Hiswara Bunjamin & Tandjung’s local partners and foreign consultants offer truly international expertise. The team works on transactions concerning projects and natural resources, granting deals “plenty of partner time and attention with further support from a great group of juniors,” report clients. The firm also serves a range of Japanese clients.
Chambers Asia, 2009
"They're the only show in town really, because what you've got is English-qualified lawyers bringing international-standard legal advice to clients in the Indonesian market, which is quite rare," comments one client. "We get the perfect mix of legal advice combined with a commercial perspective on how those laws are applied in practice."
IFLR 1000, 2009
"High praise is reserved for the team at Hiswara Bunjamin & Tandjung, clients stating that 'David Dawborn is an invaluable recourse; his experience as a foreign lawyer working in Indonesia is without parallel’… Partners Iril Hiswara and Sakurayuki and International counsel Brian Scott are also recommended."
Asia Pacific Legal 500, 2009
“Clients praise the team’s value for money and describe it as ‘very dependable’. One added: ‘we are comfortable using the firm for large deals, including acquisition financings’. Another praised the firm’s response times in comparison to its competitors and also said: ‘their advice and approach is commercial and being an relatively new firm, they tend to go to the extra mile for clients. Senior foreign counsel David Dawborn is much liked by clients, one of whom said: for questions of Indonesian law, David is very responsive and quite fast’”
Asia Pacific Legal 500, 2007