About
Professional Excellence in Legal Services. Where Law Meets Strategy
Makes & Partners is a leading and consistently top-tier Indonesian boutique law firm, proudly rooted in Indonesia for more than 30 years and entrusted with the nation’s most complex and high-stakes mandates. We are pioneers behind many iconic transactions, seamlessly integrating commercial, business, legal, reputational, and strategic considerations into decisive execution.
As a specialist boutique firm, we go beyond conventional legal advisory work – acting as strategic partners who combine deep regulatory insight, commercial judgment, and execution-driven thinking to deliver outcomes that matter.
We are the trusted advisor behind many of Indonesia’s precedent-setting “firsts,” with a transaction completion success rate exceeding 95%. Our experience spans cross-border M&A, capital markets, and strategic restructurings, where we navigate legal, regulatory, and commercial complexity to deliver seamless, forward-looking solutions.
Makes & Partners is consistently recognized by leading international legal directories, including IFLR1000, Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, Marquis Who’s Who, and Asian Legal Business.
We are the trusted advisor behind many of Indonesia’s precedent-setting “firsts,” with a transaction completion success rate exceeding 95%. Our experience spans cross-border M&A, capital markets, and strategic restructurings, where we navigate legal, regulatory, and commercial complexity to deliver seamless, forward-looking solutions.
Makes & Partners is consistently recognized by leading international legal directories, including IFLR1000, Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, Marquis Who’s Who, and Asian Legal Business.
The Firsts
As one of Indonesia’s oldest and most respected top-tier law firms, Makes & Partners has long been at the forefront of legal innovation – advising not only on landmark transactions, but on the “Firsts” that have shaped the very foundation of legal practice in the country. These are precedent-breaking deals where our structuring, documentation, and strategic legal approaches have set new industry standards and continue to serve as framework for future transactions
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The first standardized legal M&A framework for the sale of government assets during the post-reformation financial crisis – establishing transaction structures, process letters, due diligence protocols, and negotiation frameworks that continue to be used in divestments and privatizations in Indonesia today
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The first successful restructuring through the sale of multiple government assets in response to the 1998 financial crisis
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The first dual listing of an Indonesian state-owned enterprise on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ in 1995
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The first implementation of a green shoe option in Indonesia in 1998
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The first IPO of an Indonesian real estate investment trust (REIT) on the Singapore Exchange in 2006
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The first voluntary tender offer and first non-cash settlement rights issue, combined with a dual-track offering in 2007
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The first successful go-private transaction under the newly enacted OJK Regulation No. 3 of 2021
Our Strategic Alliance
We are proud to be at the forefront of pioneering strategic alliances with international firms and professionals – both legal and non-legal. As part of this commitment, we have maintained a long-standing strategic alliance with WongPartnership LLP, one of Singapore’s premier law firms, for over a decade, reinforcing our Pan-Asia capabilities and enabling us to provide integrated regional support across Southeast Asia’s most dynamic markets.
