David is a Herbert Smith partner seconded full-time to Herbert Smith’s associated Indonesian law firm, Hiswara Bunjamin & Tandjung. He is fluent in Bahasa Indonesia, both spoken and written and has worked in Jakarta since the early 1990s, advising on a broad range of major cross-border commercial and financial transactions.
His areas of practice are mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, capital markets/securities and natural resource projects in Indonesia.
His main regular clients include Goldman Sachs, Rio Tinto, BP, BHP Billiton, Hutchison Whampoa, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, H.J. Heinz, Diageo/Guinness, Akzo Nobel, Orica (formerly ICI Australia), Hewlett Packard, Securicor, Mitsui and Mitsubishi Corporation.
Credentials
- Rio Tinto/BP on the high profile mandatory divestment of a majority interest in world-class coal mine, PT. Kaltim Prima Coal, to Indonesian investors and related litigation
- Hutchison Ports on the privatisation and operations of Jakarta’s international container port
- Mitsui on the proposed acquisition of an interest in giant Tangguh LNG project
- Goldman Sachs on numerous international securities offerings by Indonesia based issuers, and its Indonesian business activities generally
- BP, Sumitomo and Mitsui on the disposal of their interests in its joint venture petrochemical company in Indonesia, PT Petrokimia Nusantara Interindo (PT PENI)
- Akzo Nobel on the sale of its Indonesian carbon disulfide production facility and restructuring of associated distribution business