Our Services

Areas In Which The Office Has Been Established Itself As A Leading Practice Include

YC’s lawyers collectively work together in several areas of the legal practice, presenting a collection of experiences in dealing with legal issues that clients encounter. This practice of working together aids in the basis of the quality of work we provide.

The role and approach that is done by YC towards our client are as follows:

Utilizing approach that emphasizes the importance of the best interest of the client, shareholders, management and stakeholders.
Producing a legal opinion that relates to the field of business of the client.
Providing a legal opinion that strengthens the bargaining position of the client.
Improving cost-efficiency for the client, maximizing the client’s strength, and reducing the client’s risk.
Proposing a draft of a transaction that is efficient in terms of taxes.
Giving a legal opinion that weighs all commercial aspect, finance, risk mitigation, technical and procedural.
Actively taking the initiative and provide solutions for issues that may arise, i.e. approaching the client as well as the client’s team and other supporting professions.
Conducting legal due diligence and risk mitigation reviews for various efforts and activities and client business transactions conducted by the client.

The role and approach that is done by YC towards our client are as follows:

Producing a legal opinion that relates to the field of business of the client.

Providing a legal opinion that strengthens the bargaining position of the client.

Proposing a draft of a transaction that is efficient in terms of taxes.

Improving cost-efficiency for the client, maximizing the client’s strength, and reducing the client’s risk.

Utilizing approach that emphasizes the importance of the best interest of the client, shareholders, management and stakeholders.

Giving a legal opinion that weighs all commercial aspect, finance, risk mitigation, technical and procedural.

Actively taking the initiative and provide solutions for issues that may arise, i.e. approaching the client as well as the client’s team and other supporting professions.

Conducting legal due diligence and risk mitigation reviews for various efforts and activities and client business transactions conducted by the client.

A Preeminent Corporate Practice

Yuvens & Co enjoys a global reputation as one of the world’s leading business law firms. Our deep experience means we regularly handle many of the largest, most complex and demanding transactions in the Indonesia. We counsel both public and private acquirors and targets, advising on a wide range of corporate matters, including:

Mergers and Acquisitions
Private Equity and Strategic Investments
investation
Spin-offs and Split-ups
Securities Offerings and Other Capital-Raising Transactions

In addition, we are recognized as a leading firm for:

Takeover Defense
Shareholder Activism
Corporate Governance

A National and International Litigation Practice

Yuvens & Co has represented clients in some of the world’s largest and most complex disputes, including domestic and cross-border deal litigation, corporate governance disputes, white collar and regulatory defense, commercial, securities and, bankruptcy litigation, complex settlements, appeals, and arbitration. We also assist our clients with sensitive internal and law enforcement investigations. In addition, our litigators engage in significant pro bono activity at both the trial and appellate court levels, write and speak in areas of expertise, and teach at the nation’s top law schools.

Our Approach to Litigation

A tight-knit group of approximately 10 lawyers, we approach each matter with intensity, thoroughness and creativity and build teams appropriate to the circumstances. We approach our clients’ legal issues within the larger framework of their strategic, business, and financial goals. We specialize in matters that require careful attention, tested experience, and a high degree of expertise. We handle litigation at all stages, from pre-suit counseling and investigations through trials and appeals. Engagements undertaken by the firm are at all times afforded the direct personal attention of partners possessing relevant expertise. Our approach is to achieve the best result for the client as quickly as possible. We regularly take cases to trial and win before judges, arbitrators and juries. But we also know when it makes sense to settle, and we have structured some of the largest and most complex litigation settlements to date.

In addition, we regularly represent boards, audit committees, and special committees charged with conducting special investigations in response to whistleblowers or governmental inquiries.

Pro Bono

Yuvens & Co has an active pro bono litigation practice. Our lawyers are encouraged to take on pro bono matters with the full support of the firm and many take advantage of this opportunity. We have represented abused women seeking protection, indigent criminal defendants in the state and federal courts, immigrants seeking asylum, and non-profit organizations challenging government action.

Yuvens & Co’s executive compensation and benefits attorneys work closely with the most senior executives of our largest clients to address the most sensitive issues facing public and private companies both in the deal and non-deal contexts.

Management succession, board composition and similar issues are essential to the success of business combinations, and executive compensation arrangements often are the foundation of people-based businesses. Our practice continues to evolve as tax rules, securities laws and corporate governance standards relating to executive compensation continue to expand in response to scrutiny by shareholder activists and the popular press.

Yuvens & Co’s intellectual property practice focuses primarily on supporting the firm’s leading mergers and acquisitions practice in light of the critical importance of intellectual property issues in the current environment. While our group has extensive experience representing companies at various stages of growth, from early start-ups to mature public companies, our practice primarily involves public company M&A and complex corporate carve-outs and spin-offs, as well as joint ventures, strategic alliances, licensing, and other strategic commercial agreements. We work closely with our corporate group and advise clients across a wide range of industries.

We offer a full range of real property services, including assisting with purchase and sale agreements, leasing agreements, title searches and registrations, conveyancing, and real property dispositions and bequests. We also provide effective and reliable advice on the complex rules governing property ownership by non-nationals in Indonesia, an area of the law that appears set for liberalization in the near future.

Our M&A practice provides advice on transaction structure, preparation of purchase-and-sale and related agreements, management, and succession, legal due diligence reporting, formation of new entities, preparation of the necessary internal corporate documents and approvals, and completion of regulatory filings. With a wealth of experience amassed over the years in a wide variety of industries, we are strategically placed to provide you with all that you need to successfully plan and conclude your merger or acquisition

YC maintains a strong practice of banking and other forms of financing activities, from traditional corporate banking for many different big industries, micro-financing, to small business that has been massively developed in Indonesia, sharia banking, and now fintech financing that requires a deep understanding of how digital technology functions at its high-speed rate. In addition, other forms of financing such as lease finance, venture capital, factoring, and consumer finance still play an important role in supporting industries, trades, and improvement of people’s lives.

Although Indonesia’s robust financial institutions have enabled the country to largely withstand the effects of the Global Financial Crisis, Indonesia has nevertheless experienced an upswing in the number of bankruptcies and restructurings.

The scope and depth of our legal practice enable us to advise clients considering strategic investments in distressed assets, debt restructurings, and complex recapitalization schemes.

As an archipelagic nation, Shipping and Maritime are of the utmost importance to the Indonesian economy. To accommodate the needs of ship owners, charterers, and maritime insurers, we provide advice on all aspects of shipping law, including ship finance and security, sale & purchase, dispute arising out of charter parties, bills of lading, insurance, and collisions, and all other admiralty matters.YC is one of the small numbers of law offices with substantial expertise in the maritime and shipping sector. In particular, Our Managing Partner, Maryo Yuvens Imanuel Donda is acclaimed as an expert in maritime and shipping law.

The Indonesian mining industry has been going through a period of profound change since the adoption of the new mining law in 2009. Our longstanding reputation with policymakers, regulators, State-owned companies, and leading industry groups provides us with important insights into the latest government policies and industry positions. Our full-service and pragmatic approach to problems allows us to deal effectively with all types of mining-related issues, including regulatory advisory work, the acquisition of land titles and settlement of boundary disputes, and compliance with forestry and environmental laws and regulations.

The Indonesian oil and gas industry is equally complex and requires expertise in a wide variety of areas, including shipping and transportation, foreign investment restrictions, trade and construction regulations, manpower, public procurement rules, antitrust and environmental laws. With our unique breadth of knowledge and experience, we can assist clients with some of the most complex oil and gas projects.

With our extensive experience in all aspects of land acquisition and title due to diligence, corporate and M&A, credit, and financing, as well as manpower, YC can provide a full range of legal services tailored to suit our clients’ commercial interests in this area.In addition to reviewing hotel management and ancillary arrangements, for many international hotel management filings.

YC has advised on Indonesia’s hotel regulatory regime, health and safety laws, timeshare arrangements, fractional ownership, and condotel/branded residence arrangements, as well as spa and fitness club licenses, golf course management agreements and hotel supply and construction matters. 

In addition to reviewing hotel management and ancillary arrangements, for many international hotel management filings, YC has advised on Indonesia’s hotel regulatory regime, health and safety laws, timeshare arrangements, fractional ownership, and condotel/branded residence arrangements, as well as spa and fitness club licenses, golf course management agreements and hotel supply and construction matters.