Allen & Overy’s Jakarta operations is expanding: the firm has recruited yet another key partner from Hadiputrano, Hadinoto & Partners (HHP), just three months after Daniel Ginting, a former energy and infrastructure projects partner, left the leading Indonesian firm to set up A&O’s Jakarta office. 

Harun Reksodiputro has left Baker & McKenzie-affiliated HHP to join A&O affiliate Daniel Ginting Law Firm (DGLF) as a corporate partner – less than a month after HHP founding partner Tuti Dewi Hadinoto has passed away. 

Allen & Overy entered into an exclusive association with DGLF in July 2010, in a bid to target the burgeoning Islamic finance and energy & resources sector in Indonesia. The office has linked up to A&O’s recently launched Doha office for efficiencies in Islamic finance work. The alliance makes Jakarta the ninth office in the Asia-Pacific thus far; following a two-pronged assault on the Australian market that saw it open offices in both Perth and Sydney in March.

According to A&O’s managing partner Thomas Brown, a steady and sustained growth in the amount of Indonesian-related work has led the firm to regard Indonesia as “one of the most important emerging markets in Asia”.

Reksodiputro has more than 16 years of experience advising multinational companies, Indonesian business groups and public companies on corporate transactions including private and public M&A, joint ventures and disposals. His experience is based across sectors that include retail, energy and telecoms.ALB

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