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This year, Asian Legal Business has spotlighted 15 IP practitioners across Asia who are recognised to have excelled in the increasingly strategic field. Through a solid track record, they have demonstrated themselves as reliable solution providers to their clients, formidable competitors to their peers, and creative pioneers to their followers.

What strategies do you credit for your recog-nition as one of ALB Asia’s Top 15 Intellectual Property Lawyers?

I attribute this special recognition to clients that have put trust in us and given us the opportu-nity to handle and solve their various types of complex and challenging IP work over the last few years. They push us to hone our already diverse IP expertise to another level in delivering stra-tegic legal recommendations for actions with the most effective possible outcomes. This recognition is possible also because of the support from the team of IP professionals, who have a deep-rooted commitment to clients and relentlessly pursue new knowledge and experience.

How do you stay updated on industry trends, and how has this commitment influenced your success in intellectual property law?

I have been very fortunate to practice in a ﬁrm that has various industry focus groups and to be involved in discussions with lawyers specializing in several different practice areas. This allows me to learn and keep abreast of any new regulatory and legal trends in Indonesia relevant to IP issues. This also helps improve our services in solving IP legal issues from the perspective of the clients’ industry and business. The ﬁrm encourages anyone to be champions in speciﬁc industries and to commit to keeping up with any development through either proactive industry research; participation in legal forums; attending industry focus talks, conferences and seminars; and fostering close relationships within the industry community/associations. This unwavering effort has signiﬁcantly inﬂuenced the ﬁrm’s success in intellectual prop-erty practice by ensuring that we have the latest insights and knowledge necessary to provide our clients with comprehensive and effective legal representation.

What advice would you give to aspiring intellec-tual property lawyers looking to make a mark in the industry?

The level of the game in the local IP scene has changed a lot when I compare it with my early years of practicing more than 25 years ago. Nowadays, clients expect to be working with IP legal professionals with broad expertise beyond non-contentious and contentious IP work. Clients also expect lawyers to always have a practical commercial sense. In-depth industry knowledge of the clients’ business, including the ability to foresee potential risks and issues should there be regulation or law changes or relevant court decisions, is now a “must have”, especially in complex IP transactional work. Developing skills in the ﬁeld of data privacy, media, advanced technolo-gies and AI should also be a focus for aspiring IP lawyers to make a mark in the years to come. As IP laws are expected to change, IP lawyers also have the opportunity to contribute to the IP legal development framework in Indonesia. In short, it is deﬁnitely an exciting time for up-and-coming IP lawyers who are practising and building careers in this ever-dynamic and evolving ﬁeld of law.

The technology sector has become increasingly prominent in the past few years, partly because of the pandemic, and partly due to the emergence of new areas – from AI to fintech to decentralised finance and everything in between. To succeed in this dynamic environment, the best TMT lawyers have had to keep up with rapidly changing business and regulatory trends.

Can you tell us about some of your notable work in the past 12 months?

We have been assisting various clients in the telecommunication sector in Indonesia and overseas. One of the more notable recent cases of the TMT team at HHP Law Firm was advising PT XL Axiata Tbk and Axiata Group Berhad, as their Indonesian legal counsel, in relation to the acquisition of PT Link Net Tbk. We also assisted KCIC and Telkomsel on the assessment of their ﬁrst spectrum lease cooperation for the operation of a high-speed rail. Most recently, we advised CK Hutchison Holdings Limited, as its Indonesian legal counsel, on the merger of PT Indosat Tbk and PT Hutchison 3 Indonesia to form Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison Tbk.

Technology has evolved rapidly in the past years. How do you keep up?

Technology is an important part of almost every job today, and technology is bringing the world closer together and creating new business opportunities in the process. No matter what industry you are in, the technology you use is developing rapidly. Thus, it is imper-ative to keep up with the changing technology trends. A couple of ways to do that would be through following the latest technology updates in different social media platforms, virtual conferences or webcasts. It is also important to keep in communication with colleagues in the industry to see what the latest technology is like nowadays. Another way would be to have a conversation with some of the younger generations (i.e., millennials) as they are more tech savvy.

For younger lawyers looking to specialise in TMT, what would be your advice?

The technology space is growing and advancing at a high pace every year, and it’s exciting. So it is important for younger lawyers who would like to focus on TMT to also keep up with this pace while maintaining a core understanding of the fundamental legal framework of the continuous innovations triggered by technology.

Daniel Pardede
Senior Partner
E: daniel.pardede@bakermckenzie.com