Theodoor Bakker

Theodoor Bakker, FCIArb, has practiced law in Southeast Asia since 1984 and is a registered foreign lawyer in Indonesia. He is a member of Section on Arbitration of the ICC Jakarta Board and is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR. Until a few months ago he served as Vice Chairman of the EU-ASEAN Business Council, where he represented EuroCham Indonesia, on whose Executive Board he had sat since inception.

• Acted for Macquarie Group Ltd in relation to a USD 216m million aircraft financing to PT Lion Mentari;
• Acted for Expro International Group Holdings, and its Indonesian subsidiary, PT Expro Indonesia, in relation to the Indonesian law aspects of Expro’s USD 1.4 billion global debt restructuring;
• Acted for Deutsche Investitions-und Entiwicklungsgesellschaft mBH for its multimillion dollar investment in PT Verena Multi Finance tbk, a publicly listed Indonesian automotive financing firm.

• Banking
• Capital markets: Derivatives
• M&A
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Securitisation

• Aviation
• Financial services
• Government and public policy
• Natural resources
• Real estate

• Amsterdam

• PERADI, BANI, SIAC, HKIAC, CIArb

• Master of Law, Leiden University (1978)