Indira Yustikania

As a partner in the Banking and Finance practice group at AHP, Indira leads complex transactions for a long list of blue-chip blue-chip domestic and international companies, banks, state-owned-institutions,  international financial institutions and investment funds in obtaining and arranging of corporate financing and project financing transactions. She is holds specific expertise in Indonesia’s booming and highly-regulated FinTech industry, and as an advisor generally on Indonesia’s financial regulation system.

Indira has represented a broad spectrum of household-name clients in a range of merger, IPO and rights issue transactions, including the acquisition of 100 % shares of PT Bank Rabobank International Indonesia by PT Bank Central Asia Tbk. and PT BCA Finance, merger of PT Bank BCA Syariah and PT Bank Interim Indonesia (previously PT Bank Rabobank International Indonesia) in 2020.

In her banking practice, Indira recently represented a consortium of eight state-owned-banks on their investment into the launch of the first Indonesian e-money and e-wallet company to be owned and supported by Indonesain state-owned-enterprises, LinkAja. Other representative experience includes advising  PT Royal Lestari Utama in the issuance of Indonesia’s first ever sustainable green bond in 2018. Indira’s clients also include PeT Panca Amara Utama, whom she advised on the extension of loan from IFC and other banks into Panca Amara Utama’s US$ 830 million greenfield ammonia plant in Sulawesi, which is the IFC’s largest greenfield project in the last decade.

In addition, Indira has amassed considerable expertise in the mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate practices. While Indira holds special expertise in the FinTech industry, she is also adept and experienced in advising clients across a wide range of sectors, including major telecommunications providers, private equity firms, and manufacturing enterprises.

• Providing ongoing legal advisory services (including advise on registration with OJK) to peer to peer lending provider from China to set up a company and peer to peer lending activity in Indonesia.
• Representing an Indonesian state-owned bank on a proposed joint venture between the Bank and a foreign payment system company in respect of the establishment a new joint venture company to be the exclusive vehicle for the Bank for provision of end-to-end acquiring services for relevant customers in Indonesia.
• Representing Tower Bersama Group in US$1,000 million Offshore & Onshore Syndicated Loan (2011).
• Acting as Indonesian legal counsel for PT Bank Tabungan Pensiunan Nasional Tbk (BTPN) on proposed merger with PT Bank Sumitomo Mitsui Indonesia (SMBCI).
• Represented PT Royal Lestari Utama in relation to a pioneering corporate sustainability bond in the amount of US$95 million. The corporate green bond issuance (23 February 2018) was the first of its kind in Asia.
• Representing Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ, Jakarta Branch in the the issuance of Negotiable Certificate of Deposits (NCD) I amounting IDR 1,000,000,000,000 (ongoing).
• Representing one of the biggest banks in Indonesia in securitization transaction (2013-present).
• Representing PT Kencana Gula Manis in the plantation cooperation with PT Perkebunan Nusantara X in relation to the privatization of PT Perkebunan Nusantara X in Ngadirejo, Kediri, Central java
• General legal counsel to, among others, Equator Capital Ltd., PT Agranet Multicitra Siberkom (detik.com), Recapital Group, ING Investment Bank, PT Capitalink Finance, PT NC Capital, PT Recapital Advisor, PT Investindo Nusantara.
• Representing Raiffeisen Zentralbank Osterreich AG (RZB-Austria), Singapore Branch, in the US$25,000,000 Term Loan Facility to PT Monrad Intan Barakat, wholly subsidiary of (acquisition financings using leverage buyout structured)