Experience

Across Business, Institutions & Disputes

The selection below includes WDP engagements and experience gained by individual team members in previous professional and public roles.

Public Assets & Government Cooperation

Experience supporting the legal arrangements through which public institutions manage assets and cooperate with private parties.

Selected Contributions

  • Legal expert support for Jakarta’s Regional Asset Management Agency and Jakarta Asset Management Centre between 2022 and 2026.

  • Legal work concerning the utilisation of regional government assets and cooperation arrangements with private parties.

  • Assessment of contractual commitments and regulatory requirements affecting public assets and commercial interests.

Healthcare & Organisational Advisory

Ongoing legal support for a healthcare business group, addressing commercial arrangements, organisational decisions, and relationships with employees and patients.

Selected Contributions

  • Agreement reviews, legal opinions, and advice on organisational change and legal issues relating to tax planning.

  • Assistance with employment matters, including proceedings before a manpower authority.

  • Assistance in resolving patient-related disputes through dialogue and mutually agreed settlement.

  • Support for a private hospital in fraud-related matters and investigation proceedings.

Business Partnerships & Brand Protection

Advisory experience across property development and food and beverage businesses, alongside assignments involving intellectual property and commercial relationships.

Selected Contributions

  • Ongoing advice on commercial agreements, business partnerships, and disputes arising from those relationships.

  • Legal work involving trademarks, product labelling, trade secrets, and a patent-related matter.

  • Experience concerning market control and acquisition-related competition issues.

  • Legal support for a state-owned enterprise and work on an infrastructure contract matter.

Commercial Arbitration, Property & Disputes

Experience addressing disputed contractual rights, property interests, and enforcement matters through arbitration, litigation, and mediation.

Selected Contributions

  • Successful representation of the respondent in BANI arbitration involving a claim for contract annulment and damages.

  • Civil litigation experience involving a state-owned enterprise across several district courts.

  • Assistance in land dispute mediation, applications for execution by auction, and enforcement of rights over land acquired through auction.

  • Experience in administrative court proceedings and mediation concerning alleged fraud.

Political & Electoral Matters

Experience in disputes involving political party leadership and election results, with assignments supporting both election contestants and election commissions.

Selected Contributions

  • Work with the Democratic Party’s legal team in connection with its leadership dualism dispute.

  • Experience in presidential election disputes, including legal assistance during the 2019 election proceedings.

  • Regional electoral assignments in Central Kalimantan, Banjarmasin, Papua, Padang, and Ponorogo.

  • Support for the Sumbawa and Pemalang election commissions.

  • Representation in the initial Papua gubernatorial election dispute and subsequent proceedings following a repeat vote, acting for the applicants and the related party respectively.

Corporate Finance & Business Advisory

Experience helping businesses assess funding needs, evaluate investment opportunities, and navigate financial and organisational change. The following assignments were undertaken by Dikry Paren before joining WDP.

Selected Contributions

  • Supported fundraising and capital investment assignments for businesses in healthcare, travel, electrical construction, and other commercial sectors.

  • Advised businesses on corporate restructuring and debt management, including assessing financial obligations and considering options to support business continuity.

  • Provided financial advisory and feasibility study support for businesses in renovation, technology, healthcare, travel, and apparel.

  • Worked on M&A and corporate valuation assignments involving financial services and customer relationship management technology businesses, including a financial services transaction involving an OJK approval process.

  • Supported financial services licensing assignments, including an OJK licensing process for a financial technology company and Bank Indonesia payment service provider licensing processes.

Strategic Communications & Public Relations

Experience helping businesses and institutions develop clear messages, engage stakeholders, and respond to issues affecting their reputation. The following assignments were undertaken by Cindy Kholisafani before joining WDP.

Selected Contributions

  • Supported government institutions and a regional humanitarian organisation through media monitoring, analysis of economic and institutional issues, press release development, and media outreach.

  • Developed workshop materials and coached participants on communications strategy, key messaging, and stakeholder engagement in preparation for Indonesia’s ASEAN Chairmanship in 2023.

  • Prepared crisis communication narratives, key messages, and holding statements for a banking institution, supported by media monitoring and analysis of emerging issues and reputational risks.

  • Researched the products and services of a capital market clearing and guarantee institution and translated the findings into a comprehensive publication to support product communication.

  • Produced press releases, speaker briefs, presentations, company profiles, sustainability reports, and internal magazines for corporate groups. Responsibilities also included editorial review, crisis communication action plans, corporate events, and CSR programmes and communications.

  • Supported food, beverage, and lifestyle brands through press releases and media outreach, and developed digital activation concepts and communications strategies for an agribusiness company.