LGS Firm & Services

Firm and Services

The role of lawyers in Indonesia is constantly evolving. Recognising this ever-changing role, LGS strives to remain informed on the latest legal, political and socioeconomic developments to provide advice of the highest calibre. LGS understands the dynamic setting that its lawyers play in facilitating our client's access to policy makers, regulators, and government agencies. And so our lawyers use their legal skills and knowledge of Indonesian business practices to arrive at a customised legal solution for each client. LGS is a law firm with the largest number of lawyers in Indonesia pursuant to ALB survey: the ALB 50 asia's largest law firms 2009.

The role and approach by LGS to its clients in dealing with a business transaction includes:

Providing legal advice in the context of the clients’ businesses;
Providing legal advice to strengthen the clients’ bargaining power;
Increasing clients’ cost efficiency, maximize clients’ strength and minimizing clients’ risks;
Proposing a structure for a transaction which is beneficial to clients, and on the other hand securing the legality and enforceability of the transaction;
Proposing the most tax efficient transaction;
Providing legal advice in consideration of commercial, technical and procedural aspects of the transaction, and the clients’ wishes;
Actively taking the initiative and solving problems using reasonable means of approach as required by clients, in cooperation with the clients’ team and other supporting professionals;
Conducting legal due diligence pursuant to any scope of work determined by our clients.

Practice Areas

LGS is widely recognized for its Corporate and Commercial Law expertise, while at the same time also continues to expand its commercial litigation, and is consistently ranked at the top of the league tables for every major area of its practice, namely:

Alternative Dispute Resolution and Arbitration	Insurance
Anti Trust	International Trade
Bank and Debt Restructuring	Intellectual Property Rights
Banking and Secured Transactions	Labor
Bankruptcy	Maritime and Shipping
Capital Market	Mergers and Acquisitions
Construction	Mining, Oil and Gas
Consumer Protection Defense Litigation	Privatization
Corporate Finance	Project Finance
Distribution of Goods and Services	Property and Real Estate
E-commerce	Refinancing and Bank Lending
Foreign and Domestic Investment	Shariah Transactions
Forestry and Plantation	Structured Finance
General Corporate	Tax
Infrastructure	Telecommunications
Information Technology

Together, LGS lawyers work across practices to provide the highest quality legal services, bringing their collective experience to bear on the issues that clients face. Underpinning the quality of our work are our shared values.

LGS has several core practices, with the main focus in recent years being on acquisitions of companies. Particulary, in the recent past, LGS has frequently dealt with acquisitions involving complex issues on corporate and debt restructuring, mining, as well as significant deals in the capital market.

LGS Legal Database

Considered as the most complete legal database in Indonesia, LGS database on the development of laws and regulations has reached more than 20.000 laws and regulations. This legal database becomes LGS’ basis to serve varied needs of its clients. This practice of sharing knowledge and technological resources with clients leads to improved strategic outcomes. In addition to a host of technology solutions for clients, LGS regularly publish relevant information on significant legal developments on this database, which can be accessed through http://www.lgsonline.com which is accessible 24 hours a day worldwide. Aside from laws and regulations, LGS database also provides legal memoranda, forms and agreements, boilerplate provisions and litigation reports, all accessible online to ease the business and professionals community to access comprehensive, user friendly and affordable legal services and information.

Affiliations

LGS maintains contacts with international and national law firms in jurisdictions around the world to satisfy the need in a globalised world. The contacts are bulit in order to provide clients with an international legal service that is truly unparalled in excelence.

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