FULL SERVICE LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR - HONG KONG

The arbitrations on which we are instructed include complex, high-value multi-jurisdictional cases. We work alongside teams in other offices in our network and with correspondent law firms whose competence and sustainability we have tested in the past. The majority of our own legal practitioners in Hong Kong regularly handle arbitration, and several of them act as arbitrators and mediators, including a certified adjudicator. The team is familiar with the different sets of rules in arbitration in common use – and several sets of rules that are not. We are accustomed to appearing before tribunals and experienced in conducting advocacy.

Corporate and regulatory

The team handles all aspects of corporate transactional and regulatory work that business owners – from SMEs and start-ups to large international conglomerates – typically require, including complex cross-border deals. The firm’s Asia-Pacific offices are staffed with highly experienced lawyers qualified in the UK, Hong Kong, Singapore,

South Korea, India, Australia, New York and New Zealand.

The firm regularly advises stakeholders (debtors and creditors) in distressed situations and related security enforcement and insolvency procedures in Hong Kong, the PRC and other Asian jurisdictions. We also advise on shareholder disputes (including ‘quasi partnership’ disputes), joint venture disputes, investment product misrepresentation/ misselling claims, banking disputes, internet crime (business email compromise scams/ CEO fraud) and more routine debt/asset recovery matters, sale of goods disputes, and employment issues.

Insurance and reinsurance

HDHK also advises on contentious insurance matters including coverage and defence work. It provides audits of insurance policies and advises on policy wording. In a regulatory context, we advise company directors and others involved in the management of listed companies, as well as employers and employees involved in regulatory investigations.

FULL SERVICE LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR - INDIA

Partners

Samvad Partners

+91 (22) 6104 4000 (Mumbai), +91-(80) 4268 6000 (Bengaluru), +91 (11) 41726200 (Delhi). +91 (44) 4306 3208 (Chennai) https://www.samvadpartners.com/ vineetha@samvadpartners.com, poornima@samvadpartners.com, ashwini@samvadpartners.com, rohan@samvadpartners.com

Address:

Mumbai - Free Press House, 3rd Floor - Office No 39 and 4th Floor - Office No 41, Free Press Journal Marg, 215, Nariman Point Mumbai 400 021 India

Bengaluru - 62/1 Palace Road, Vasanthnagar, Bengaluru – 560 001

Delhi - 10, Sundar Nagar, New Delhi – 110 003

Chennai - 11/6 2nd Floor. Railway Colony, 3rd Street, Nelson Manickam Road, Aminjikarai, Chennai – 600 029

The Firm

Samvad is a full-service law firm providing practical, innovative and quality legal advice. We are a partner-led, solution-focused setup and believe that we deliver cutting-edge transactional work in the most non-transactional ways. The firm is a rich mix of domestic and international experiences, as several partners have worked in various international financial centres outside India, including London, New York and Singapore. Given our multi-discipline and flat structure approach, we work seamlessly across all five offices. We are able to anticipate issues better and apply our cross-practice learnings while advising on any issue. With our strong base in corporate and commercial law, we are able to help a wide range of clients from young startups to established multinational Fortune 500 companies, global private equity and venture funds, Indian and international banking and financial institutions as well as the government across various commercial and regulatory needs. The Firms’ biggest focus is the ability to deliver quality, across offices, seamlessly and irrespective of where the client is located.

Our partners are highly acclaimed by both Indian and international rankings institutions for demonstrated legal prowess in their respective fields. We have been consistently ranked among the top-tier law firms as a leader in several practice areas. Our thought leadership is reflected through the various publications and articles authored by our team members. Many of our team members are visiting faculty members and guest lecturers in institutes across India. The team at Samvad is consciously and actively involved in policymaking and engages with the relevant stakeholders to this end. We regularly advise clients on issues arising out of corporate governance, domestic anticorruption laws as well as foreign anti-corruption laws such as the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, 1977 and the UK Bribery Act, 2010, in connection with mergers and acquisitions, private equity and financing transactions. The ability to be gender-diverse is hardcoded in the DNA of Samvād: Partners. Our gender diversity ratio is probably the best in the country, with 80% of our partners and 54% of our lawyers being women. This makes us unique among both Indian and global law firms.

Established in 2013

Total number of professionals: 130+ (19 partners)

Principal offices: Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai and New Delhi

Key practice areas:

• Anti-corruption & antibribery;

• Arbitration & ADR,

• Banking & finance;

• Bankruptcy & insolvency;

• Competition & antitrust;

• Compliance;

• Corporate & commercial;

• Corporate governance;

• Data protection and privacy & GDPR;

• E-commerce, fintech, blockchain & cryptos;

• General corporate advisory;

• Healthcare, life sciences & pharmaceuticals;

• Inbound investment;

• Infrastructure;

• Insurance & reinsurance;

• Intellectual property;

• Joint ventures;

• Labour & employment;

• Litigation;

• Licensing & franchising;

• Mergers & acquisitions;

• Microfinance;

• Policy & regulatory;

• Pre-litigation advisory;

• Power & energy;

• Private equity, venture capital & investment funds;

• Real estate;

• Restructuring & insolvency;

• Technology, media and telecommunications.

Bagus Nur Buwono Managing Partner

Bagus

Enrico & Partners (BE Partners)

+62 21 29885959 www.bepartners.co.id bagus@bepartners.co.id

DBS Bank Tower, 17th floor, Jl. Prof. Dr. Satrio Kav.3-5 Jakarta 12940

Bagus is a founding Partner and Managing Partner of Bagus Enrico & Partners (BE Partners). The firm has been recognized by the international and highly respected UK based Legal 500, International Financial Law Review, Who’s Who Legal, Asia Law, Acquisition International, and Global Law Expert for its practices in Corporate M&A, Restructuring & Insolvency, Labor & Employment, IT, Telecom & Media, Construction & Real Estate, Commercial Law.

Bagus Enrico & Partners is the sole representative member firm for Indonesia in the international legal network GLOBALAW, comprising of around 100 independent law firms in 85 countries with 4500 lawyers, making it one of the most global of all legal networks. It has grown steadily and smartly over 25 years with a determined focus on quality rather than quantity. As such we have 76 different legal jurisdictions covered, making us one of the most global of legal networks.

Bagus’ practice focuses primarily on transactions and advisory works, including merger and acquisition, strategic investment and general corporate/commercial matters across various industrial sectors including banking, insurance, and finance, energy and natural recourses, infrastructure, automotive industry, and construction services.

Bagus has extensively worked on a broad range of cross border transactional, advisory and contentious matters, and regularly advises on regulatory issues on financial industry, energy, manufacture, and infrastructure sectors. His considerable experience in relation to those business sectors has enabled him to steer investors through the inherent practical and regulatory hurdles.

He has also acquired practical corporate, banking and finance experience in various business cycles when working for Bank Mizuho Indonesia and Bank Barclays Indonesia. He was also an independent member of the Audit Committee and the Risk Management Committee of Bank DBS Indonesia. He received several awards for his significant contributions in supporting the business development activities in Bank Mizuho. During his tenure at Bank Mizuho, he attended a Mini – MBA Program held by Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd in cooperation with Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan in 2009.

He is also known especially for his experience in reorganizing roles and functions of legal department, setting up various standard legal documents for banking activities, and conducting various legal training programs. He acquired unique experience to support the process to set up new retail and commercial operation of Barclays Bank in Indonesia, including preparing all legal documents of banking products, procurement documents, legal policies, corporate governance, and the exit process of Barclays from the retail and commercial business in Indonesia.

In recognition of his years of continued excellence work and expertise, some of Bagus’s accolades include: The Asia Pacific Legal 500 - The Guide to Asia’s Commercial Law Firm (2011/2012 - 2022/2023) Editions have acknowledged Bagus as a recommended lawyer in the practice areas of Corporate, M&A, Employment, and the Restructuring and Insolvency; Recognised as a «Leading Lawyer 2014/2015 - 2022/2023» by Asia Law - Euromoney Asia in the areas of Banking and Finance, and Corporate, M&A and as the