Areas of Practice

Litigation is our specialization, but we expand our service in nonlitigation cases as well. Whatever the case is, we assist and represent clients with the highest professionalism standard.

Our approach is to initially reach an early comprehensive understanding of a client's concerns and goals. We then evaluate the factual and legal settings, and formulate a strategy designed to accomplish the client's goals as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Criminal Issues

Law Offices Amir Syamsuddin and Partners specializes itself in handling criminal cases, such as corruption and criminal cases in banking, land, trading, business, etc. For their substance, most of the cases got highlights from mass media.

The Firm offers its best efforts to serve the clients in the legal proceedings from District Court up to Supreme Court, also in Police Department and Public Prosecutor for criminal procedures.

Corporate, Trade and Commercial Litigation

Day-to-day business contains risks to all sides who is involved in it, as well as those which need the litigation process. Our Firm has broad experience in handling cases of corporate, trade and commercial litigation, which generally are civil cases. We assist the clients from the early stage of negotiation, up to giving due process in Court up to Supreme Court.

General Corporate

The lawyers in our office have years of experience in many aspects of general corporate matters. The wide range of subjects in the area is including starting-up company transactions, partnership, contract negotiation and drafting, also corporate maintenance. These matters require in-depth knowledge by our lawyers, and we take care of them professionally and with deep responsibility which is fair for our clients.

Banking

We give legal opinion on bad debt, internal banking, facility loan, credit syndication, and various aspects of guarantees. We also expert banking litigation, handling guarantee execution up to auction process, handling bad debt and other problems related to banking litigation. In addition, we give legal opinion such as due diligence for bank merger and acquisition.

In representing our clients, we carry out related registrations and filings for various loan projects, such as foreign debt registrations, external security registrations, mortgage registrations and pledge registrations.

Labour

Our lawyers advise their clients on all aspects of employment and labour law. We act for employers and employees in wrongful dismissal claims in all courts, before various administrative hearing and in drafting and interpreting employment contracts.

We help employers negotiate and interpret collective agreements. Emphasizing in the fairness of both employer and employees sides, we advise clients on the application of legislation in employment and human rights code.

Land and Property

Our lawyers are highly qualified in handling land andproperty issues. We represent individuals and corporations involved in theproperty issues in the steps of preventing and solving problems, and also in litigation process.

In this area, Law Offices Amir Syamsuddin and Partners iscompetent to provide clients with legal services in the respects of givingadvice and litigation practice on real estate development, land development, housing propertydevelopment, industrial park development, and hotel and resort development.

We base our representation in the fairness of our client. Itis our attitude to stay away from disputes, and we give the best effort solvethe problems as effective as possible.

Bankruptcy

Since the formation of Commercial Court in many regions in Indonesia, following the establishing of 1998 Bankruptcy Law, we have been assisting clients with bankruptcy problems. Our firm helps the clients in submitting bankruptcy petition against debtors, registering their bankruptcy, attending creditors meetings, coordinating with receiver and other things related to bankruptcy matters.

Agency and Distributorship

The Firm has a broad experience in handling problems in agency and distributorship, including making documents of agreements, making registration in related Department and handling disputes among the agent, distributor and principal.

Energy

We represent the individuals and corporations engaged in the mining, oil and gas industry. We handle the drafting, reviewing and advising clients on agreements and also in various matters related to this field, such as labor issues, relations with vendors, etc. Our expertise includes assisting clients in the litigation process. The lawyers in our office are especially qualified to represent the individuals and corporations engaged in the mining, oil and gas industry.

Arbitration

We frequently advise clients negotiating commercial agreements on strategic issues relating to choice of law and forum and on dispute resolution processes, also on rules suited to the clients’ business needs. We represent clients in arbitration forums, including Indonesian Agency of National Arbitration (BANI), ICC Court of Arbritation, etc.

Intellectual Property Issues

In the era when intellectual property becomes greatly valuable, we have been doing numerous assistance and services for individuals and institutions that concern with their intellectual properties. The legal and professional representation of our clients is complemented by our personal involvement with clients and our willingness to be flexible in the manner in which we approach our clients’ projects.

The experience of our lawyers extends to all aspects of domestic and foreign intellectual property law, such as detailed patent investigations and analyses in all technical areas, including providing opinions on questions of patent, trade marks, state-of-the-art, and due diligence studies. Even our attorneys are available to represent your interests in connection with disputes over the use and registration of domain names on the World Wide Web. 

Investment

The Firm gives the clients consultation regarding investment in Indonesia and all of its related matters. The Firm provides its clients legal opinions on investment, as well as making and revising investment agreements.

Securities and Capital Market

The lawyers practicing in the Securities and Capital Market are a significant part of our law office. Our lawyers are experienced in a broad range of financing vehicles, both public and private.

We advise issuers, investment dealers, underwriters, financial institutions, venture capital funds, portfolio and mutual fund advisers and other market participants on all aspects of the capital markets, including both transactional and securities regulation matters. Stock exchange procedures and securities regulation and compliance are also in our service

Insurance

The firm's extensive insurance practice covers both the defense of insured parties in liability actions. It includes advice to and representation of insurers and policyholders on a wide variety of first- and third-party coverage issues. We also handle litigation cases related to all aspects of insurance.

Family Law

Like all aspects of human’s life, family life has its typical problems. Consequently, in this area, people need preventive acts toward those matters, aswell as representative ones in solving problems emerged. We concern with this matters, then provide services from premarital agreement to divorce proceedings.

We realize that divorce proceedings, even under the best circumstances, are emotional and very stressful for all concerned. Therefore we attempt to obtainan amicable resolution if at all possible. We work hard to obtain a property settlement which is fair to our client. When custody is an issue, we believe that the best interests of the children are highly important.