Debby Sulaiman

Practice Areas

Debby heads our Indonesian disputes and restructuring practices, focusing on commercial disputes, arbitration, corporate restructuring and insolvency.

Debby’s dispute resolution practice includes complex high-value disputes. Her extensive experience includes representing international clients in handling transnational and complex commercial disputes before Indonesian courts, as well as in domestic and international arbitrations. In addition to advising clients on contentious matters, she also provides strategic advice and dispute avoidance tactics, drawing on her distressed market experience.

Debby has particular strength in restructuring, work-outs and corporate insolvency, acting for international clients in a number of high-profile bankruptcy and restructuring cases in Indonesia.

Career

Debby trained with Hiswara Bunjamin & Tandjung and the London office of associated firm Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer in her early years of practice. She was a partner at two other Indonesian firms with international tie-ups before returning to HBT in August 2017.

Professional Memberships

• Member of Indonesian Bar Association (Peradi)

• Court Member (Indonesia), ICC International Court of Arbitration

• Board of Directors, Turnaround Management Association (TMA) Southeast Asia

• APAC Council Member, Young SIAC (YSIAC)

Publications

Indonesia chapter, Herbert Smith Freehills Guide to Restructuring, Turnaround and Insolvency in Asia Pacific (May 2023)

Indonesia’s New Criminal Code: Essential Things to Know about Corporate Liability (February 2023)

Languages Spoken

English and Indonesian

Work Highlights

• a subsidiary of an Indonesian SOE in relation to the successful Singapore-seated arbitration against Philippines conglomerates and ongoing enforcement proceedings of an award in excess of US$100 million

• a Malaysian SOE and its subsidiary, in a successful Singapore-seated arbitration and ongoing enforcement proceedings of an award in Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia in excess of US$700 million against two conglomerate group companies in Indonesia

Education

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