S A N I

Being one of Indonesia’s leading law firms, SAP was
established and supported by a group of experienced
and well-respected practitioners.
The teamwork and cohesion among the members of the
Firm has gone back to 1997, when they worked together
under the name of “Karim Sani Law Firm“.

Commitment to ensure compliance of our legal practice
with the 2003 Advocate Law of Indonesia, and a high
appreciation of one another’s accomplishments and
professionalism, led to the decision to continue legal services
under the different name, SAP.

During the economic crisis in Indonesia, lawyers of SAP
have been actively involved in the recovery efforts both
through restructuring process under the Indonesian Bank
Restructuring Agency (IBRA) or the Jakarta Initiative Task
Force (JITF), a World Bank backed mediation institution
for debt restructuring, and through court proceedings at
the general and / or commercial courts in Indonesia. Its
litigation partner has become one of the Government
lawyers in the arbitration proceedings on private power and
is still acting for the Central Bank of Indonesia in some
high profile contentious matters. Whilst another partner
was the person who intensively involved in the process of
making of Jakarta Stock Exchange (the JSX) regulations as
from the time the JSX was privatized in early 1990’s.

OUR VALUES AND APPROACH

Our main objective is to ensure that clients are advised,
and their interests are taken care of, in the best possible
way. We regard it as important to understand fully
the nature of each client’s business, the culture from
where the client comes, the market in which the client
operates and the real business issues involved in the
matters we work on.

To achieve the above objective, we place the following
characteristics as our firm’s values and approach:
(i) providing each client with the best, honest, most secure
and cost effective solution, having regard to the characteristic
of the particular matter;
(ii) obtaining the optimal result in cooperation with the client
through a careful analysis of all relevant issues and after
identifying the right solution with the client;
(iii) appointing qualified lawyers and, if necessary, external
advisor to solve the task entrusted to our firm;
(iv) endeavoring to keep aware the importance of the client’s
need and demand at all times.

AREAS OF PRACTICE

Banking and Finance
We assist our clients, inter alia, in connection with syndicated
and single term, standby and revolving loan facilities;
securitization, leasing, venture capital; installment and consumer
credit; issuance of debt instruments (medium term note,
commercial paper and certificate of deposit); derivatives
products; and Islamic financing.

Capital Market
We handle legal works in relation to initial public offering, right
issue, convertible bond and other types of bond and any equitylinked
products, including legal due diligence and issuance of
opinion as well as advising clients on matters related to the
Indonesian capital market framework applied and/or issued by
the Indonesian Capital Market Supervisory Agency
(BAPEPAM) and the Stock Exchange Authority.

Commercial
Among other issues we frequently advise are commercial
contracts and conditions relating to sale and purchase of goods,
supply, agency, distribution, manufacture, franchising.

Corporate and Investment
Our services in this area cover: company formation in the frame
of domestic or foreign investment, establishment of business /
representative entity, mergers and acquisition, disposal, joint
venture, cross-shareholdings and other corporate alliances,
management and leverage buy-outs, privatization, corporate
restructurings and reorganizations, partnership, director and
shareholder advice, and advice on regulatory matters concerning
corporate and investment.

Construction, Land and Property
Our works in these areas cover advice, review and preparation
of construction and engineering contract for building, housing,
infrastructure and plant projects; land acquisition and disposal;
all aspects of property finance and leasing; mortgage securities.

Corporate and Commercial Litigation / Arbitration
We are admitted and act as litigators before all Indonesian courts
and arbitration tribunals, particularly at the Indonesian National
Arbitration Board (“BANI”), and at the Indonesian Capital
Market Arbitration Board (“BAPMI”) within all our fields of
practice.
Furthermore, we also advise and represent clients before “quasi
courts and/or special investigative institutions”, such as: Labor
Dispute Settlement Committee (“P4D / P4P”); Business
Competition Supervisory Commission (“KPPU”); and Capital
Market Supervisory Agency (“BAPEPAM”).
Our litigation partner is often appointed by companies and
colleagues to act as arbitrator in domestic and international
arbitration proceedings.

Corporate Crime
We provide advice and accompany clients in criminal process
and proceedings at the Police, Civil Investigator, Attorney Office
and the Courts in connection with corporate and white color
crime cases.

Employment and Immigration
We also assist clients on contractual documentation and policies
for employees, redundancies and termination negotiations,
collective disputes and industrial action, and immigration related
matters.

Energy, Natural Resources, and Environment
We advise legal aspects in connection with licensing, concession,
bidding and production-sharing agreements; drilling and rig
related contracts; independent power production and electricity
trading contracts; environmental legislative and regulatory
compliance;

Insolvency
We provide advice and representation in connection with
bankruptcy; voluntary or involuntary creditor scheme; and in
respect of suspensions of payments, enforcement, proceedings
and the handling of estates.

Insurance and Compensation
We provide legal advice and representation for issues relating to
insurance cover, liability and recourse; handling of dispute in
connection with contractual and tortuous liability constitutes
an important part of our services.

Intellectual Property
We do services relating to trade marks, copyrights, industrial
design and patents; preparation or review on exploitation
agreements, such as licenses and assignments; contentious
proceedings in the intellectual property rights directorate general;
protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights.

Maritime
Our practice in this area concentrates on contract and issues
within the maritime, such as liability and recourse claims and
matters relating to insurance cover as a result of collision, salvage
and general average.

Regional Autonomy and Public Policy
As Indonesia governmental system adheres to the regime of
“regional autonomy”, we also advise and assist clients to deal
with the local authorities and regulations in a particular area

For the interest of clients’ business, we do monitoring legislative
and policy proposals, identifying threats and opportunities arising
from developments in relevant areas of law, representing interests
of clients to government and regulatory bodies, advising on and
drafting amendments to legislation.

Our basis of charging is designed to ensure that our
fees represent principles of fairness and maintain value
of affordability.
It is basically distinguish into two alternatives. A time-based
charge, set at various rates according to seniority, experience
and knowledge, reflects the time committed by our lawyers.
We do not expect to charge clients for learning costs, even in
any field where the necessary skill lies beyond the ordinary
range of our works.
The other charge is lump sum basis. This model is usually
applied for litigation cases before the Indonesian courts or other
“relatively fix” works, such as: review of particular agreements;
rendering legal opinion, conducting legal due diligence and so
on. Where our work covers representation in debt recovery or
asset claims or relates to enforcement of security, we would
normally expect to combine between the lump sum charge
and success fee charge at the reasonable percentage of the
collected amount.
Above all, we can agree alternative arrangement of our charge
individually with clients, such as for retainer basis.