Practice Areas

We have a broad mining legal practice conducted either on public or private lands in Indonesia. We assist our clients in the stages of mining exploration and development, in handling issues related to mining royalty and joint venture/partnership agreements. We also provide assistance to defend mining companies against administrative claims pursued by state agencies.

We have extensive experience in M&A transactions, representing both buyer and seller, designing and closing the take over deals. Since our establishment, we have regularly team up with global law firms on the Indonesian legal aspects of M&A deals, and involved in several major deals.

Highly skilled in this practice area, we are representing our clients either as debtors or creditors in commercial and consumer cases.

We represent clients in litigation and arbitration proceedings involving various types of disputes i.e disputes in the mining industry, facility construction, property, banking and finance litigation, corporate insolvency, and debt restructuring as well as disputes among shareholders.

Mining and Energy is a core area of focus for ADCO Law. Our lawyers are highly skilled at helping clients across the mining, energy and natural resources sector to take advantage of the opportunities, overcome challenges and protect their interests. Over 40 clients of our firm are active players in Indonesian natural resources industry, including mining and energy sectors.

We have a national reputation, regional strength and local experience to guide your business through every step of a project – from conception, construction to operation and maintenance. Our construction lawyers specialize in drafting construction contracts and resolving construction disputes.

Our lawyers possess substantial skill and experience in providing comprehensive corporate and commercial legal supports and advisory services to clients across a wide spectrum of industries. Combining commercial sensibilities and legal expertise, we assist our clients to structure, organize and implement their business ventures and investments, including structuring, financing and securing investments as well as establishing new projects in various industries.

We have advised commercial banks, investment banks, insurance companies, trust companies, private equity funds and hedge funds from both inside and outside of Indonesia.

We have a proven track record in helping clients deliver some of the national and global leading oil and gas projects across the full upstream and downstream lifecycle, from licensing and exploration to production, sale and decommissioning.

We have a deep understanding and special expertise in handling complex international disputes in the areas of infrastructure, energy, cross-border investments, trade and transport. We frequently represent multinational clients in disputes arising in Indonesia and Asia, either in courts or arbitration chambers.

We provides the clients with integrated legal governance and legal risk management, and compliance advice and solutions which allow them to compete with confidence.

We have extensive experience in covering clients’ needs in all aspects of Indonesian regulations, policy and common structures used in the plantation and forestry industries. We represent foreign investors, large and small domestic companies and individuals as well as state-owned companies engaged in this business.

We focus on the needs of our clients and are driven to provide multi-faceted approaches and practical solutions to complex matters. We frequently provide advice on cross-border and domestic restructuring and insolvency matters. We also have the competence to draw on the expertise of market-leading specialists and of knowledge diversity from both our contentious and non-contentious practice areas.

We are qualified in industrial, commercial and financial practices covering a variety of environmental challenges, including helping our clients manage environmental risk in the context of business transactions, and achieve compliance with environmental laws and regulations.

We assist clients not only in establishing labor management systems and handling human resource problems but also in resolving complicated employment disputes.

We have advised the most advantageous transaction structures from economic, tax and legal perspectives on matters involving five continents. We work with diverse parties including domestic and foreign investors on tax-exempts, pension plans and properties.

We are qualified in representing client in insurance matters, whether on the side of insurer companies or the insured parties. On certain insurance cases, we work based on contingency basis, where the client will pay only if they get commercial benefit out of engagement with the firm.

We have capabilities in maritime and shipping industry, either the commercial aspects (procurement, financing, ship registration) or disputes (delay, demurage, seaworthines, ship arrest etc).