Tony Budidjaja

Tony is an internationally-recognized legal practitioners with more than 24 years of practice. He has extensive experience and expertise in cross-border Banking, Finance, Capital Market, Securities, Insolvency, Corporate Restructuring, and Commercial Dispute Resolutions. He is one of the few legal practitioners in Indonesia who is qualified as both capital market legal consultant and tax court attorney. Tony has successfully handled some of the most high-profile and complex matters with both international and domestic corporate and government clients. Tony is also an accredited arbitrator and mediator. He is registered in a number of international institutions, such as AIAC, SCMA, and HKIAC, as well as BAKTI (Badan Arbitrase Perdagangan Berjangka Komoditi).

• Advising one of the largest Chinese state-owned banks in providing a USD 150,000,000 loan facility to a subsidiary of one of the Indonesian giant groups for the development and establishment of a coal-fired power plant and a special terminal in Southeast Sulawesi;
• Advising and assisting various off-shore major international banks and financial institutions in connection with a financing of coal purchase in Indonesia worth more than USD 500,000,000 for a development of 3 x 138 MW Coal-fired Power Plant in Philippines;
• Advising and assisting one of the largest Singaporean banks in preparing securities documents in connection with the refinancing of 38 Indonesian-owned shipping vessels worth approximately SGD 31,000,000; 
• Advising one of the largest US-based private equity firms in providing Series – A investment in the amount total around of USD 10,000,000 to several Indonesian E-Commerce based companies; and
• Advising a Thai bank, on the potential dispute with its borrower, one of the largest textile company in Thailand, concerning the allegation that the Client has processed transactions instructed by unauthorized representative of the borrower.

• Banking
• Capital markets: Debt
• Financial restructuring
• M&A
• Restructuring and insolvency

• Banking
• Financial services
• Natural resources
• Real estate
• Shipping

• Asia-Pacific Forum for International Arbitration (AFIA) – Country Representative for Indonesia;
• Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), Indonesian Chapter – Executive Vice Chair;
• MedArbid Indonesian Academy of Independent Mediators and Arbitrators (MedArbid) – Chairman; 
• Indonesian Mediation Centre (BAMI) – Co-chair of International Relations Division;
• Indonesian Mediators Association (AMINDO) – Co-chair of International Relations Division; 
• ICC International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) – Commission on Arbitration 
• International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Indonesia National Committee – Co-Chair of Commission on Arbitration & Commercial Law;
• International Cotton Association (ICA), Indonesian Country Focus Group Member; 
• Asian International Arbitration Center (AIAC) – Mediator and Arbitrator (since 2014);
• Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA) –Member BAKTI Indonesian Commodities Arbitration Body (BAKTI) – Member; 
• Indonesia National Board of Arbitration (BANI) – Member;
• Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) – Foreign Representative; 
• International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC) – Individual Member; 
• Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SIArb) – Fellow; 
• Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution (AIADR) – Fellow IFA International Fiscal Association - Corporate Member; 
• Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) – Arbitrator;
• Indonesian Institute for Conflict Transformation (IICT) – Mediator; and
• Indonesia Business Council for Sustainable Development (IBCSD) – Mediator.

• Bachelor of Law degree, University of Tarumanagara, Indonesia (1996);
• Master of Law degree, University of Leiden, Netherlands (2001); 
• Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration (Dipl. CIArb), Oxford (2006).