"Direct involvement of experienced partners who bring commercial and practical solutions to complex matters", is one client's view of the qualities of Bahar & Partners, while another praises the firm for "keeping small but focused transaction teams".Bahar & Partners is a renowned powerhouse in the capital markets in Indonesia under founding partner Wahyuni Bahar....
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"Direct involvement of experienced partners who bring commercial and practical solutions to complex matters", is one client's view of the qualities of Bahar & Partners, while another praises the firm for "keeping small but focused transaction teams".
Bahar & Partners is a renowned powerhouse in the capital markets in Indonesia under founding partner Wahyuni Bahar. A rival partner comments: "Bahar is an expert in capital markets, just a quality lawyer." Under his stewardship the firm is constantly involved in high profile transactions.
One example saw the team recently appointed as legal counsel to local shipping company PT Rig Tenders Indonesia, an indirect subsidiary of one of the major marine-related services' companies in Malaysia. PT Rig Tenders Indonesia mainly offers marine vessels' transportation services to the energy sector involving coal, oil and gas.
Another highlight for the capital markets team was advising Trust Energy Resources, an affiliate of Tata Power. Trust Energy Resources is India's largest private power utility group in terms of its investment in an Indonesian public listed company. The firm advised on corporate matters and capital markets compliance and regulatory matters.
The M&A team also advised Tata Motors, the largest automobile manufacturer company for commercial vehicles and passenger cars in India.
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Bahar & Partners have "deep knowledge and excellent analysis on the legal opinion on matters we entrusted them on", comments a client of the firm. The Bahar & Partners team has highly regarded practitioners that are experienced in advising project finance investors whether nationally in Indonesia or internationally in cross border transactions....
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Bahar & Partners have "deep knowledge and excellent analysis on the legal opinion on matters we entrusted them on", comments a client of the firm. The Bahar & Partners team has highly regarded practitioners that are experienced in advising project finance investors whether nationally in Indonesia or internationally in cross border transactions.
A leading partner in a rival law firm praised the team as "technically very strong", while a client adds that "Bahar have a collaborative culture, understand clients and try not to come to an immediate answer." One of the team's highly regarded practitioners is Yuliana Tjhai, commended by peers as "having good legal capacity."
The project finance team advised Indonesia Infrastructure Finance, a state-owned infrastructure company, in regard to providing schemes of dispute settlements in relation to a convertible loan agreement for project financing.
Bahar was also entrusted with representing a syndicate of local banks, jointly led by PT Bank Central Asia and PT Bank International Indonesia with regard to loan facilities (in the form of conventional loans and shariah facility) to PT Mandala Multifinance.
The loan facilities were provided through a syndication of a conventional loan and a murabaha (deferred sale) facility. The loan facilities will be used by the borrower as working capital.
Another notable highlight was representing Employee Provident Fund, a Malaysian government entity undertaking responsibility as a major shareholder of RHB Capital, in the planned acquisition of the private Indonesian bank PT Bank Mestika.
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