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Iwan Setiawan, S.H.

Senior Partner

Iwan is a Senior Partner at Makes & Partners. He has over three decades of experience and heads the Firm’s award-winning Capital Market practice group. He is regarded as one of the pre-eminent legal experts in Indonesia, and is respected and sought after by domestic and foreign clients, and even regulators for his expert insights and advice. Iwan also leads the Capital Market lawyers in all of Indonesia as the appointed Chairman of the Indonesia Association of Capital Market Legal Consultants (HKHPM) for 2021-2024.

Iwan has led the Firm in successfully completing some of the biggest and landmark IPOs in Indonesia in the past three decades, including, most recently the IPOs of Mitratel (as counsel to the Banks) and Blibli (as counsel to Blibli), the second and fifth biggest IPOs, respectively, in Indonesia to date. Clients say that he is astute and knowledgeable” and that his expertise in Capital Market is indeed, “unparalleled”

Iwan is the only Indonesian lawyer in the elite list of Asia’s Top 15 Capital Market lawyers (2022) by the Asian Legal Business. He was nominated as Southeast Asia Capital Market Lawyer of the Year at the 2023 Legal 500 Southeast Asia Awards held in May 2023.