Dikry Paren

Partner, Financial & Business Advisory.

Corporate Finance, Capital Investment & Business Restructuring

Dikry advises businesses on funding requirements, capital investment, corporate restructuring, and financial decision-making. His experience spans fundraising, debt management, feasibility studies, corporate valuation, and mergers and acquisitions, alongside support for regulatory licensing processes in the financial services sector.

His assignments have involved businesses in technology, healthcare, construction, agribusiness, travel, and consumer products. He helps clients assess their financial position, evaluate commercial options, and understand the implications of funding, restructuring, and transaction decisions.

Dikry also brings executive experience in financial technology through his role as President Director of Qazwa, an Indonesian Islamic financing platform. This background informs his understanding of business operations, financing needs, and the relationship between commercial objectives and regulatory requirements.

At WDP, Dikry helps clients translate financial analysis into practical business decisions. His work complements the firm’s legal and communications capabilities where an assignment requires coordinated consideration of financial, regulatory, and stakeholder interests.

Areas of Focus

  • Fundraising & Capital Investment

  • Corporate Restructuring & Debt Management

  • Financial Advisory & Feasibility Studies

  • M&A & Corporate Valuation

  • Financial Risk & Capital Structure

  • Financial Services Compliance & Licensing Support

Selected Experience

The following includes roles and matters undertaken before and alongside his work with WDP.

Fundraising & Capital Investment

Supported fundraising and capital investment assignments for businesses across healthcare, travel, electrical construction, and other commercial sectors. His work involved assisting businesses with their funding needs and capital investment plans.

Financial Advisory & Feasibility Studies

Provided financial advisory and feasibility study support for businesses in renovation, technology, healthcare, travel, and apparel. These assignments involved assessing the financial viability of business plans and informing investment and operational decisions.

Corporate Restructuring & Debt Management

Advised businesses on corporate restructuring and debt management, helping clients assess financial obligations and consider options for addressing financial pressures and supporting business continuity.

M&A & Corporate Valuation

Worked on mergers and acquisitions and corporate valuation assignments involving financial services and customer relationship management technology businesses. His experience includes a financial services transaction involving an OJK approval process.

Regulatory Compliance & Licensing Support

Assisted a financial technology company with an OJK licensing process and supported rural banks in connection with Bank Indonesia Category 3 Payment Service Provider (PJP) licensing processes. His work concerned the regulatory requirements relevant to the proposed business activities.

Education & Professional Development

Universitas Indonesia
Bachelor of Economics — Islamic Business, 2018

Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Short Course, 2016

Academic Engagement

Keynote Speaker — National Seminar on Management & Business
Universitas Nusa Putra, 2022

Served as a keynote speaker at SENMABIS 2022, a national seminar bringing together researchers, practitioners, and students to discuss business innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic competitiveness.

Guest Speaker — Digital Economy Public Lecture
Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Indonesia, 2019

Spoke at the “Men-Digital Ekonomi-kan FEBUIzen” public lecture, presenting on developments in the Muslim consumer market as part of a broader discussion on the digital economy and business opportunities.

Selected Publications

Digital Transformation in Islamic Finance: A Critical and Analytical View
Routledge, 2023

Co-authored the chapter “Business risk mitigation through ‘Value-Chain Integrated’ financing in Islamic Peer-to-Peer Lending in Indonesia: PT Qazwa Mitra Hasanah’s experience,” with Sigit Pramono, M. Iqbal Ramadhan, and Muhammad Razikun.

The chapter examines business risk mitigation through value-chain integrated financing, drawing on Qazwa’s experience in Indonesia’s Islamic peer-to-peer lending sector.