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Worldwide Financial Advisor Awards Magazine Annual Advisers 2016
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DEEP & FAR Attorneys-at-Law 13th F1., No. 27, Sec. 3, Chung San N. Rd. Taipei 104, Taiwan, R.O.C. Tel: +886-2-2585-6688 Fax: +886-2-25989900/25978989 email@deepnfar.com.tw Deep & Far was founded in 1992 and is one of the largest law firms in this country. The firm is presently focused on the practice in separate or in combination of all aspects of intellectual property rights (IPRs) including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, unfair competition, and/or licensing, counseling, litigation and/ or transaction thereof. Since this firm edges itself into the IPRs field, the firm quickly comes to fame. As an illustration, this firm often is one of the largest sources from which foreign filing orders originate. The fascinating rise of this firm begins from the founder of Deep & Far attorneysat-law, C. F. Tsai, who is the one first patent practitioner in this country who both has technological and law backgrounds and is qualified as a local attorney-at-law. The patent attorneys and patent engineers in this firm normally hold outstanding and advanced degrees and are generally graduated from the top five universities in this country and/or the university in the US. Our prominent staffs are dedicated to provide the best quality service in IPRs. As a proof, about one half of top 100 incorporations in this country have experiences of seeking patented their techniques, but more than one fifth of the top 100 incorporations are/were clients of this firm. Furthermore, Hi-Tech companies in the science-based industrial park located at Hsin Chu play an important role in booming the economy of this country. About one half of which have experiences in seeking patented their techniques, and out of more than 60% of the patent-experienced companies in that park have ever entrusted their IPR works to this firm. We have experienced in seeking IPR-protections for our clients in more than 100 territories all over the world. We have thousands of IPR-cases respectively prosecuted before official Patent Offices of major industrialized countries. This firm not only is the most competent in IPR-related matters in this country but also is very familiar with IPR-practices in major industrialized countries. As a matter of fact, this firm oftentimes tries and makes precedents of new claim-drafting styles. While we might have become wonderfully famed locally with remarkable appreciation and respects, we would like to extend our services for internationalized or quality service-requiring foreign conglomerated giants, corporations or individuals. We strongly believe that we will win more
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ACCRALAW Law Firm of the Year – Philippines Colville Partners Limited Boutique Corporate Law Firm of the Year Deep & Far Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year – Taiwan John Harrison & Company Compliance Services Firm of the Year – UK Litwak & Partners Tax Amnesties Law Firm of the Year Mathys & Squire Technology Law Firm of the Year – UK RTR Rete Rinnovabile Italian CEO of the Year Sadis & Goldberg Financial Services Law Firm of the Year – USA Tahoun Law office Oil & Gas Law Firm of the Year - Egypt
Colville Partners Boutique M&A Firm of the Year Colville Partners, founded in 2010, are experts in renewable energy investments and financings. Their main focus is to help institutional investors – pension funds and insurance asset managers - gain access to the European wind market. Often by putting together investor consortia for large wind portfolio deals; having successfully closed 4 such transactions. The partners are former investment professionals at blue chip financial institutions, having managed themselves more than €2bln of equity and debt investments. They therefore approach all deals with an institutional investor mind-set, performing extensive due diligence and scenario analysis, understanding the competitive landscape and negotiating the transaction documentation. The founding partner of Colville Partners is Thijs Bauer, an experienced M&A, private equity and project finance professional within the renewable energy, infrastructure, power and clean technology industry, having closed numerous transactions and managed several investment vehicles and associated investments. Ex ABN AMRO renewable energy principal investment team and ex 4Rae Renewable and Alternative Energy investments and founder of Colville Partners and Solar Capital Energy Europe. Clients
Banco Santander Cubico Sustainable Investments, backed by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and PSP Investments Glennmont Partners Greencoat Capital PGGM RBS Pension Fund Prudential Swiss Life Asset management
Projects this year Arranging a co-investor – European pension fund - for the €416m acquisition of a 245MW Italian operational wind portfolio from Iberdrola Advising on the acquisition of a wind farm in Northern Ireland Advising on debt restructuring of a UK wind farm (ongoing) Colville Partners continues to add value to their clients in a low interest environment by coming up with innovative low cost deals at attractive returns. In 2017, they are looking to continue helping institutional investors obtaining exposure to the wind energy market and further solidify their position as the preeminent wind energy investment advisory boutique.
Contact: Colville Partners 235 High Holborn London WC1V 7LE United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)203 795 1624 Mob: +44 (0)7590 6644 16 www.colvillepartners.com
Oil & Gas Law Firm of the Year – Egypt The Firm was established in 1990 as a highly specialized firm in various litigation and arbitration matters. In 2009, the Firm was restructured with a new vision of providing first-rate quality legal services to a broad-base of multinational and regional clients. Although, the Firm has recently restructured to provide professional legal services in different business fields, the Firm achieved major accomplishments in executing several projects and reached high results in closing successful major transactions. The Firm has been involved in major transactions, including many of the project finance and mergers and acquisitions transactions executed in Egypt on behalf of sellers or buyers and negotiated major concession contracts (BOT, BOO or PPP) on behalf of Egyptian government or private sector. The Firm successfully reached settlements of major disputes between investors and government and acted as a deal maker between different market players reaching win-win agreements. The Firm is proud to have won various awards in provision of legal services such as “THE BEST OIL AND GAS FIRM IN EGYPT OF THE YEAR 2014, by “Worldwide Financial Advisor Awards Magazine”, and the “Full Service Law Firm of the Year in EGYPT”, by “Corporate International Magazine “.Most importantly, the Firm is selected amongst many other Firms to act as the exclusive representative of International Society of Primerus Law Firms. The Firm treats all information and/or documents provided by its clients as highly confidential information. We have fifteen lawyers, in addition to the managing partner, enjoying high experience in provision of all legal services rendered by the firm. Nermine Tahoun Ms. Tahoun provides advises in international trade contracts and disputes, construction, IT, IP and labour matters, and finding suitable and effective forms of establishment of new businesses. Ms. Tahoun ranging from advising on documents for establishing companies, branches, subsidiaries or international corporate structures, to giving corporate advice on day to day matters, attending Board and Shareholders meetings and obtaining and registering official authorizations, licenses and visas. Ms. Tahoun participated in drafting Egyptian PPP law and played key role in drafting PPP related model agreements and direct agreements. She was the head of the legal team of the Egyptian government and successfully reached financial close of the first PPP in the MENA region (New Cairo Waste water Treatment Plant). Ms. Tahoun provided advisory and other legal services to the government in various projects including (i.e. public private partnership projects, ATM project, developing of insurance law system, restructuring of Egyptian inflight services, waste collection). Ms. Tahoun has extensive experience in drafting services agreements, joint venture agreements, management agreements, concession agreements, and finance agreements, sale of shares
agreements, license agreements, construction agreements, agency agreements, lease agreements, supply agreements, employment agreements, manufacturing agreements and lease agreements. Ms. Tahoun also involved in drafting legal opinions on a wide range of corporate issues and conducting legal due diligence reports in relation to construction, concessions, manufacturing, project finance, merger & acquisitions, swapping transactions, agency, aviation, oil and gas services, infrastructure and utility projects and tax related matters, arbitration and litigation in relation thereof. Ms. Tahoun is highly specialized in the preparation and negotiation of tender offers for submission to public authorities, relevant contractual structures and arrangement of project financing and refinancing scheme. Ms. Tahoun is specialized in various industries, including retail, shipping, distribution and logistics, health and medical, education, free zones, real estate, natural resources and energy. Ms. Tahoun has extensively negotiated, drafted, and concluded some of the major contracts required by some of the most important joint venture businesses in Egypt and provided legal services to various clients. Ms. Tahoun acts as legal deal maker to secure the best deal for the client and ensure the most successful legal position to maintain the clients’ business and commercial goals and clear contractual relationship. Ms. Tahoun manages Tahoun Law Office and she is keen to provide and responsive legal services to its clients. Ms. Tahoun is a board member in Egyptian companies and Swiss companies. Contact: Address: Smart Village Building 2401 B, First Floor Giza Governorate 12577 Phone: Tel: +2 (02) 3537 1717 Fax: +2 (02) 3537 4443 (ext. 102) E-mail: info@tahoun.com www.tahoun.com
Italian CEO of the Year RTR is Italy and Europe's largest solar energy producer. Supported by its shareholder Terra Firma, RTR quickly built the largest solar portfolio in Italy, displaying leadership and management capabilities at the highest levels. RTR's growth strategy is based on acquiring high-quality assets from the industry's leading operators and expertly managing them. RTR's strategy for development positions it as a key player in the European renewable energy sector. RTR operates at the cutting edge of technological innovation, to build an environmentally friendly and socially sustainable energy future.Terra Firma created RTR in April 2011 when it acquired a portfolio of orphaned energy assets from Terna SpA, Italy's national grid operator. Following the initial acquisition of a portfolio of solar photovoltaic (PV) assets, Terra Firma built RTR from scratch into a world-class solar power company with state-of-the-art electricity generation and performance monitoring equipment. Today RTR is the leading solar PV power generation business in Italy and in Europe. Such an exciting company has attracted professionals with extensive specific expertise: if we were to add all of our team's experience together, RTR's staff have managed almost 1 GWp over the course of their careers. RTR is constantly testing new technology to improve the efficiency of its plants. The array of technologies tested by RTR is considerable, and in many cases RTR is the only company in Italy to test specific innovations or equipment. The production of photovoltaic energy is a high-tech sector in which technology evolves very quickly: some innovations prove to be especially effective and useful, and RTR funds their implementation in its plants with its own capital. RTR is not only a European center of excellence, but also a generator and sponsor of cutting-edge technology. The solar energy sector is progressing fast, from the reduced capital requirement for plant installation to industry consolidation. Paolo Lugiato, the Chief Executive Officer of RTR Energy, shares his career insight into this exciting sector. Paolo indicates that the decisions made early in your career are extremely important to one’s development and success. Students are encouraged to explore and identify the best career option and work very hard to make the most out of it. Contact: Piazza Manifattura n° 1 38068 Rovereto Viale Regina Margherita 279 00198 Roma
Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year – Taiwan Lu-Fa Tsai earned his LLB and LLM from National Taiwan University, which is the nation’s top university and the most widely-known College of Law in Taiwan. Following graduation, he worked at the CSP law firm, where he gained experiences involving various types of legal cases, including civil cases, criminal cases, administrative cases and I provided services and advice to clients. After he joined Deep & Far Attorneys-at-Law, he was encouraged to expand the legal departments of the firm with the goal of helping Deep & Far become a more comprehensive law firm. His areas of expertise include Intellectual Property Law, International Trade Law and Corporation Law.Deep & Far attorneys-at-law was founded in 1992 and is dealing with all phases of laws with a heavy percentage now on the practices in separate or in combination of all aspects of intellectual property rights (IPRs) including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, unfair competition, and/or licensing, counseling, litigation and/or transaction thereof. Nevertheless, company establishment, debt collection, civil or business laws and criminal law are also daily practices of this firm. Deep and Far’s most significant clients are the Hi-Tech companies in the science-based industrial park located at Hsin Chu had ever played the most important role in booming the economy of this country. About one half of them has experiences in seeking patented their techniques, and out of more than 50% of the patent-experienced companies in that park have ever entrusted their IPR works to this firm. Certainly, we must also represent international giants, e.g. InterDigital, MPS, Schott Glas, Toyo Ink, Motorola, Cypress. Contact details Deep & Far Lu-Fa Tsai Tel: 886-2-25856688#900 Fax: 886-2-25989900//886-2-25978989 Add: 13th Fl., 27 Sec. 3, Chung San N. Rd., Taipei, Taiwan Web: www.deepnfar.com.tw Email: lawtsai@deepnfar.com.tw
Financial Analysis Firm of the Year – USA Demotech, Inc. is delighted to have earned the Worldwide Advisor Excellence Award for 2016 in the category of Financial Analysis Firm of the Year – USA. Since 1985, Demotech has focused on addressing the needs of insurers that are unrated or under-rated by the legacy rating services. We initiated our effort in the late 1980s by covering regional and specialty insurers in the United States. Demotech secured acceptances from the Federal National Mortgage Association, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, and United States Department of Housing and Urban Development for Financial Stability Ratings® (FSRs) of A or better. At year-end 2015, Demotech reviewed more than 420 insurers writing in each of the United States, District of Columbia, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and US possessions. As third parties become familiar with our ability to identify financially stable insurers, increasing numbers of umbrella insurance carriers, premium finance companies, insurance agent’s errors and omissions insurers and other informed parties recognize our FSRs as credible and viable. Florida State University’s College of Business Risk Management and Insurance undertook an independent study of Demotech, A.M. Best, Standard and Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch insurer ratings over multiple years. A Comprehensive Examination of Insurer Financial Strength Ratings concluded there was consistency in the firms that each categorized as secure and Demotech served the need of a unique group of insurers. Other independent acknowledgements of our capabilities include HUD’s re-affirmation of our acceptance in its Section 232 Handbook, HUD’s expansion of our acceptance to its Section 241(a) program, Fannie Mae Multifamily acceptance of risk retention groups and captive insurers rated A or better, our nomination for Intelligent Insurer’s Global Award – Best Rating Agency (2014 and 2015) and securing the ACQ5 award for US – Niche Financial Analysis Provider – Insurance for two consecutive years, 2014 and 2015. In addition, during 2015 Demotech was nominated for the Rating Agency of the Year at the Reactions North America Gala. We were also honoured with the Florida Association for Insurance Reform’s Founder’s Award at its annual meeting. More recently we secured the Financial Monthly – M&A Awards – Financial Analysis Firm of the Year – USA and the Corporate Vision – Corporate Excellence Award – Best Evaluator of US Regional and Specialty Insurers & Sustained Excellence in Insurer Financial Analysis. In 2016, we earned the Corporate Live Wire’s Financial Stability Analysis Firm of the Year – USA. Demotech distinguishes itself from other rating services in many ways. Four distinguishing characteristics are the industry experience of our analysts, long tenure of our analysts, a focus on an insurer’s business model rather than its size, and the transparency of our analysis process. Our four primary analysts have more than one hundred and twenty (120) years of insurance industry experience. Furthermore, these four primary analysts average nearly twenty-five years
with Demotech. As a result, carriers that contact Demotech can be assured of comparable treatment, institutional memory and consistent outcomes due to the professionalism and tenure of our staff. Our primary analysts are experienced professionals. I am an actuary with forty years of insurance and financial analysis experience. Sharon Romano Petrelli, co-founder of Demotech, is a CPCU, AIAF, CCP and ARC. She has served on the board of governors of the CPCU Society. Barry J. Koestler, II, Chief Ratings Officer, a Chartered Financial Analyst has more than twenty years of insurance and financial analysis experience including rate filings, loss and loss adjustment expense reserving and financial analysis. He has coordinated the development and monitoring of our Preliminary FSRs and FSRs since 1996. Robert M. Warren, CPCU, CPA, Client Services Manager, has more than ten years with Demotech. Previously he served as the chief financial officer of several insurers. His forty years of experience includes selection and implementation of processing, accounting and investment systems, development and implementation of investment strategy and guidelines, demutualization, due diligence associated with mergers or acquisitions, collaborating with board members, executive committees, rating and regulatory agencies and state examiners. Demotech focuses on a carrier’s business model and its capability to execute that model. We introduced the Company Classification System to initiate dialogue on business models. While other rating agencies seem fascinated by the relative financial size of an insurer and the degree of diversification, the reality is that neither size nor diversification has kept insurers out of liquidation. Some of the largest insolvencies have been publicly traded carriers that touted their access to capital, diversification and the rating assigned by legacy rating services to the abrupt end. In age of transparency, our process is focused on quantitative criteria, not subjective, qualitative criteria. Should a carrier fail to meet our criteria for an FSR at the A level or above, we point to specific metric(s) or condition(s). We do not utilize subjective criteria to supersede or ignore underlying financial stability. We focus on the consistency of fundamental relationships in current versus historical balance sheets and income statements. With a team of experienced, credentialed professionals, we are uniquely positioned to address current as well as the emerging issues. Contact Details Joseph Petrelli President Tel: 614-761-8602 Email:Jpetrelli@demotech.com
International Employment Law Firm of the Year – Global Seyfarth Shaw LLP is an 850+ lawyer firm with global reach and unparalleled capabilities in international employment law. The firm’s team of specialist international employment lawyers is the largest of its type globally, and its practice is acknowledged as one of the world’s leading practices in the area. All the partners in the international practice are internationally-trained, and each has assisted many of the world’s largest companies with numerous complex and high-profile global employment-related strategic, compliance and transactional projects across a wide range of industries. The team has experience across more than 170 countries, often working on projects covering up to 150 countries at one time. The experience and credentials of Seyfarth’s international practice have led to its reputation as a global leader in the practice of international employment law and have positioned the team as ‘go to’ advisors for large multinational companies requiring strategic employment advice covering their global operations. Key areas of experience and expertise include: •
Structuring and implementing employment related strategic initiatives on a multijurisdictional basis
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Workplace policies and handbooks
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Workplace harassment, anti-discrimination and equal opportunity law matters
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Protection of employers' proprietary and confidential information
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Multi-jurisdictional privacy/data protection and employment law compliance issues
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Employment and contingent workforce arrangements and documentation
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Employment and labour issues arising from international mergers and acquisitions
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International outsourcing arrangements
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International workplace investigations
Seyfarth’s international employment team is located in key global locations and provides a true cross-border expertise. Its unique service model has been developed over a number of years and is very well tested by many of the world’s largest companies. The team’s success is the result of a constant, unrelenting focus on the needs of its clients and a commitment to excellence using the strength of an integrated team-based approach to deliver international employment law services in a creative, innovative and commercial way.
Contact Details Key Contact: Darren Gardner – Chairman, International Practice Firm: Seyfarth Shaw LLP Email: dgardner@seyfarth.com Tel: +1 (415) 544-1018 Website: www.seyfarth.com
DRAGONFLY: 300 MILLION YEARS OLD
T-REX: EXTINCT
Nature knows size and survival are independent. Demotech, Inc. has proven that to the insurance industry.
Regional and Specialty insurers are often mistakenly thought of as financially unstable due to their size.
Financial Stability Ratings® offer the following benefits:
Financial Stability Ratings® look beyond the size of an insurer and evaluate solvency using a quantitative model based on insurance fundamentals.
• Acceptance by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and HUD
Innovative thinking, strategic analysis, commitment, insight and on-going involvement with the insurance industry allow us to provide solutions as unique as your company.
• Eliminate Reinsurance Cut-Throughs • Access to Stand-Alone Umbrella Insurance • Premium Financing Available • Errors and Omissions Insolvency Gap Coverage Available • Much more!
Contact us today to learn how Demotech and Financial Stability Ratings® can help insurers level the playing field. Call 800-354-7207 or visit www.Demotech.com/FSRBenefits
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Law Firm of the Year – Czech Republic The law office GĂœRLICH & Co was founded on 1st February 2002. All members of the firm are experienced lawyers possessing outstanding professional expertise in various branches of law. Currently, the firm consists of many lawyers who are supported by a qualified office staff. Besides, on a case to case basis, we would invite for cooperation many other external specialists and free-lance lawyers. This law firm is fully capable of offering legal services to both individuals and legal entities in almost all fields of civil and commercial law, all over the territory of the Czech Republic. We are capable of providing legal services in the Czech and English languages. In the event of cross-border transactions and litigation, this office hires its cooperating international law offices as well as external foreign lawyers. Still, this Law Firm remains a purely Czech legal office free of any financial or other influence exerted by foreign and/or local nationals. This allows the firm to provide its services in compliance with law, professionally and independently. Our law firm focuses mainly on the following areas of law: Civil law, Corporate and business law, Real Estate law, Intellectual property, Labor law and Litigation. Above all we deal with, among the advisory on real estate property transactions (e.g. sale, purchase or lease of apartments and commercial property), drafting all documents relating to real estate financing, drafting all security related documents (mortgages, lien over property and other assets including sets of movable assets, lien over IP or a business or part thereof, security / collateral agreements relating to banking accounts, shares and ownership interests, as well as numerous fiduciary assignments of rights demanded by banks), arranging registration and all other related steps, including advice on governing law. Moreover, we focus on advisory to developers, on investment in real estate, lease and sublease agreements, liens on real estate, creation of easements, building law. Our law firm provides its services at a high professional level, quickly and with complete independence. Two of our key values that help to drive businesses of our clients are flexibility and personal approach that we manage to maintain through the hard work of our young but skilled colleagues who are at all times prepared to offer tailor-made solutions. Within the scope of legal assistance, our law firm provides prevailingly advisory services in selecting the most suitable procedure with a view to client’s needs, prepares various documents and arranges for the preparation of opinions and legal analyses. The highest level of professionalism that we try to maintain encompasses taking into account forthcoming legal amendments, detailed continuous study of judicature of both the national and European courts. However, while focusing on professionalism we never forget that it goes
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Arbitration & Litigation Advisor of the Year – Indonesia Lubis Ganie Surowidjojo (LGS) was founded in 1985 by Timbul Thomas Lubis, Mohamed Idwan (‘Kiki’) Ganie and Arief Tarunakarya Surowidjojo. LGS specializes in both Commercial Transactions and Commercial Disputes, including criminal law. As well as helping to put the deal together we can also help to prevent or solve problems in its implementation. Our lawyers are specialized in confirming what the legal problem is, but do not leave the solution to the client, they are also trained to suggest commercial solutions to what has started as a legal problem or legal solutions to what has started as commercial problems. Mohamed Idwan (‘Kiki’) Ganie is the Managing Partner of Lubis Ganie Surowidjojo (LGS). He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Indonesia and holds a PhD in Law from the University of Hamburg. Dr. Ganie is a Chairman of the Association of Indonesian Anti-Trust Lawyers, a member of the Regional Panel of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), and a fellow (FSIarb) of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. Dr. Ganie has more than 30 years of legal experience, and specializes in commercial transactions and commercial litigation, including alternative dispute resolution and has acted as an expert in a number court and arbitration proceedings. His expertise covers general corporate/company law, banking law, finance, bankruptcy and restructuring, mining, investment, acquisitions, infrastructure projects/project finance, antitrust, and shipping/aviation, with a particular focus on corporate governance and compliance. Founding Partners: Mr. Timbul Thomas Lubis heads the Lubis Ganie Surowidjojo litigation section. Mr. Lubis specialises in commercial transactions and company law, as well as labour, property and real estate law. Dr. Mohamed Idwan Ganie is the Managing Partner of Lubis Ganie Surowidjojo. Dr. Ganie specializes in commercial transactions and commercial dispute resolution, and has a focus on corporate governance. Mr. Arief Tarunakarya Surowidjojo specializes in corporate law and has acted as the lead lawyer in hundreds of IPOs, rights issues and other capital market transactions, and more than 100 M&A deals.
Partners: Mr. Abdul Haris Muhammad Rum’s field of expertise includes general corporate, restructuring, capital markets, M&A, project finance, syariah, and oil and gas law. Mr. Harjon Sinaga has a strong general corporate background and specializes in commercial litigation, concentrating in the fields of bankruptcy and antitrust.
Mr. Rofik Sungkar’s practice focuses on litigation, debt restructuring and general corporate law. Ms. Dini Retnoningsih specialises in corporate transactions. Mr. Mochamad Fajar Syamsualdi specialises in M&A. Mr. Ahmad Jamal Assegaf specialises in restructuring, investment, M&A, and telecommunications. LGS has experience representing a diverse range of clients, including domestic and multinational corporations, public and private companies, Government instrumentalities and State Owned Enterprises. Dr. Ganie’s international commercial transaction and litigation clients include: Goldman Sachs (US), Temasek Holdings (Singapore), Hutchison Whampoa (Hong Kong) and Mitsui (Japan). Clients are increasingly looking for stability (or better: sustainability) and strategic direction. We have made it our mission not only to service existing but also anticipated client needs. We are therefore skilled not only to advice what the "the law says", but also what the clients could or should do to solve the legal aspects of a legal or commercial problem or to support our Clients' strategic direction. In three years’ time we see the firm to have achieved its mission to be the Indonesian firm with the largest transaction and dispute resolution division and with the largest network of branch offices throughout Indonesia to provide not only expertise on central government laws, regulations and policies, but also regional laws, regulations and policies, and to provide assistance wherever the legal issues arise within Indonesia. All that with a view to increase value, to be more effective and cost efficient for the benefit of our clients and also to assist other firms who require legal services in the region (provinces) of Indonesia.
Contact Details: Dr. Mohamed Idwan (‘Kiki’) Ganie Managing Partner Lubis Ganie Surowidjojo Address: Menara Imperium 30th Floor Jl. H. R. Rasuna Said Kav. 1 Kuningan Jakarta 12980, Indonesia Tel: +62 21 831-5005, 831-5025 Fax: +62 21 831-5015, 831-5018 Email: ganie@lgslaw.co.id Website: www.lgsonline.com
Most Professional Asset & Trade Finance Firm of the Year – International APT Finance is an independent finance company providing asset finance and Trade finance to all kinds of businesses, from start ups and sole traders to some of the biggest companies in the UK. After many years specialising in the Entertainment and IT industries, APT's financial packages now cover any kind of product and all types of businesses. Our short term (1-6 months) and long term (1-5 years) finance packages enable you to make the most of the assets of your business - your cash resources, your customers, the equipment you own, your sales force and your business track record. For ten years APT Finance has worked closely with the suppliers and users of equipment in the entertainment industry and although our expertise is the funding of "high tech" equipment such as IT, cameras, pro audio, video, sound and lighting, A/V, multimedia and digital imaging, we also finance "low tech" products used by the same customers, such as fixture and fittings for bars and clubs, signage, vehicles and furniture. If it is tangible, we can finance it! The three directors of APT Finance each have over twenty years experience in general management, finance or marketing for both small and large IT manufacturers and so, whether you are a supplier wanting to implement your own label leasing programme or an end user needing advice on the tax implication of leasing versus hire purchase, you can be sure of getting responsive and experienced help from APT. Designing and implementing supplier (vendor) leasing programmes is one of APT's key activities because the directors have each spent over 20 years, before setting up APT, in senior marketing and finance roles with a variety of IT companies, from own start up ventures to major international PLCs. The APT Team are here to rapidly source funding for your business. We have considerable expertise in:
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Hire Purchase Sale and Leaseback Business Start-ups Sales-Aid Finance Extended Hire Schemes Operating Leasing
Over the last 15 years, APT established itself as the clear Service Leader in Broker Finance, and has funded thousands of assets of every description to thousands of small, medium and large UK businesses, from sole traders to PLC's. Over the years our expertise has expanded from financing Film & Television production equipment, professional sound & lighting, production CD & DVD, into event finance, entertainment venue finance, Video Walls, Plasma Screens, CCTV systems, Computer Equipment and Software-only Leasing. For example, if a club owner often wants finance for his bar and kitchen equipment, or a recording studio needs some air conditioning - and so to provide a comprehensive service to our customers, APT has the resources and experience to finance any asset costing between ÂŁ1000 and ÂŁ1 million. The APT's team are all seasoned business professionals and we have recruited management and support staff with years of experience in the relevant disciplines and markets in order to provide our customers with informed, competent and responsive service and advice.
Contact Details: APT Finance 22, Reading Road, Henley on-Thames Oxon RG9 1AG United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1491 642077 Fax: +44 (0)1491 642078 E-mail: enquiries@apt-finance.com
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