Outstanding lawyer for Client Service Excellence: Q&A with Luky Walalangi, Walalangi & Partners
May 22, 2020
Luky Walalangi shares his firm's success at delivering client service excellence with asialaw
Established 2017
Pacific Century Place, 19th floor
Jalan Jenderal Sudirman Kav 52-53, SCBD Lot 10
Senayan, Jakarta Selatan
Jakarta 12190, Indonesia
Tel: +62 21 5080 8600
Fax: +62 21 5080 8601
Email: info@wplaws.com
Website: www.wplaws.com
Contact: Luky I. Walalangi, Miriam Andreta
Number of partners: 2
Number of lawyers: 25
Languages: English, Japanese, Indonesia
Practice Areas: M&A, Banking & Finance, Corporate, Real Property, Antitrust, Debt & Corporate Restructuring, Foreign Direct Investment, Fintech Business, Multi-Finance Companies, Assets and Portfolio Acquisition
Walalangi & Partners (in association with Nishimura & Asahi) (“W&P”) was founded in 2017 by Mr. Luky I. Walalangi as a corporate and business law firm with a strong commitment and high dedication in assisting and working together with clients to achieve their corporate and commercial goals in Indonesia.
W&P is in association with Nishimura & Asahi (N&A), the largest law firm in Japan with more than 550 experts in various legal matters, including cross-border transactions and Asian practices. With this association and combination of talents, W&P can offer extensive international resources and a highly responsive client support center. W&P is working together with N&A to meet its clients’ highest expectation.
W&P’s main areas of practice include Merger & Acquisition, Banking & Finance, Real Property, Foreign Direct Investment, Antitrust, Debt & Corporate Restructuring, Capital Market and Bond Issuance, Employment, General Corporate, TMT, Multi-Finance Companies and Construction, with clients vary from the most prestigious Japanese trading houses, multinational banks, financial institutions, multi-finance companies, real estate and property companies, multinational industrial companies from various sectors, state owned enterprises and start-up fintech companies.
W&P team comprises prominent and qualified lawyers, led by Mr. Luky I. Walalangi, a leading lawyer in Corporate and Merger & Acquisition and Banking & Finance, with almost 2 decades of experience in law practices. Mr. Walalangi has been listed in various international publications and surveys, including:
- Chambers Global 2019: Leading Individual in M&A and Corporate.
- Chambers Asia Pacific 2019: Leading Individual in M&A and Corporate
- Asia Business Law Journal 2019: The A-List: Indonesia’s Top100 Lawyers.
- Asialaw 2019 Asialaw Profiles Research: 5 Best Lawyers.
- IFLR1000 2019 : Leading Lawyer – Highly Regarded.
- Asian Legal Business 5th Annual ILA 2018: Shortlisted as Managing Partner of the Year.
- Asia Business Law Journal 2018: One of the A List Indonesia’s Top 100 Lawyers.
- IFLR1000 2018: Highly Regarded Lawyer.
- Asialaw Profiles 2018 : Leading Lawyer in Corporate/M&A.
- IFLR1000 2017: Leading Lawyer in Banking, Competition, M&A, Project Finance, Real Estate.
- Asialaw Profiles 2017: Leading Lawyer in Corporate/M&A.
- Asialaw Profiles 2016: Leading Lawyer in Corporate/M&A.
- Asialaw Profiles 2015 : Leading Lawyer in Corporate/M&A.
- The Asia Pacific Legal 500 2015: a recommended lawyer in Real Estate.
- The Asia Pacific Legal 500 2014: a recommended lawyer in Corporate & M&A, Banking and Finance.
- Asialaw Profiles 2014: a recommended individual.
Another Partner of W&P is Ms. Miriam Andreta, who has more than 14 years of experience, and has been highly praised by international publications and surveys, including:
- Asia Business Law Journal 2019: The A-List: Indonesia’s Top100 Lawyers.
- Asian Legal Business 2019 : ALB’s Rising Star Indonesia 2019.
- Asian Legal Business - 5th Annual ILA 2018 : One of “40 Under 40”.
- Asian Legal Business – 5th Annual ILA 2018 : One of Top 5 Finalists of Young Lawyer of the Year.
- Asian Legal Business – 5th Annual ILA 2018 : Shortlisted as Woman Lawyer of the Year.
Indonesia
Walalangi & Partners
Walalangi & Partners’ collaboration with Nishimura & Asahi brings in a respectable flow of Japanese clients who seek the firm for its banking and finance and corporate and M&A counsel. Luky Walalangi is a key contact.
Banking and finance
Work highlights
Advised Tokyo Tatemono as the sponsors on the $162 million loan financing to Dharma Tatemono Property and Dharma Tatemono Residences for the construction of a luxury condominium and office tower.
Key clients
TIS
Corporate and M&A
Work highlights
Advising Hokkan Holdings on its acquisition of assets from seven Indonesian plastic packaging companies. It involves transactions structure combining assets transfer and debt to equity conversion.
Key clients
Showa Denko
Client feedback
“Under the instruction by the founding partner, the firm has provided very practical advice in a timely manner, well considering the reality of business.” – Corporate and M&A
Luky Walalangi
“He is a very capable lawyer in this practice area, who knows well about the history of the joint venture company and the way of thinking of the people in it, as well as those in its parent company like me, and properly takes such factors into account when advising me.”
Indonesia
Industrials and manufacturing
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| Lawyer | Ranking | Practice Area |
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| Walalangi, Luky I | Distinguished practitioner | Banking and finance, Corporate and M&A |
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