Denny Rahmansyah

Practice Areas

Denny Rahmansyah is the head of SSEK's construction and real estate/property practice and has extensive experience assisting clients with property acquisitions, hospitality projects (including hotels and villas), office building leases and developments, and industrial property developments.

His practice also includes banking and finance, compliance (anti-corruption and anti-bribery), cross-border debt restructurings, foreign investment, M&A, mining, carbon trading and green energy, plantations and forestry, and TMT (including data protection and privacy, fintech and e-commerce).

Career

Denny joined SSEK in 2001 from another prominent law firm in Jakarta, where he worked mostly in acquisitions and debt restructuring matters. Denny leads SSEK's construction and real estate/property practice and regularly acts for multinationals and domestic clients in all aspects of property acquisitions and developments.

Outside the real estate and property sector, Denny regularly advises clients in the TMT space, including on cryptocurrency and data protection and data privacy matters, and the establishment of fintech and e-commerce companies and their registration with the relevant authorities including the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs and the Commodity Futures Trading Regulatory Agency (Bappebti). Denny represents clients with the establishment of foreign investment (PMA) companies, representative offices and branch offices in Indonesia, liaising with notaries and the relevant authorities for licensing matters, and advising on all the procedures and requirements under Indonesian law.

Clients praise Denny as a “very commercially minded lawyer who is great to work with and has strong negotiation skills” (Chambers Asia Pacific). Another client says: “I have nothing but good words and praise for Denny. He always gives 100% commitment backed by extensive experience and commercial knowledge” (Chambers Asia Pacific).

In addition to being recognized by Chambers & Partners, Denny is named by Asialaw, IFLR1000 and The Legal 500 as a leading lawyer in Indonesia for real estate/property and corporate law and M&A. Denny is the only lawyer in Indonesia to be acknowledged as a global leader in the Lexology Index: Real Estate guide. He has been named a Lexology Client Choice expert for real estate, in recognition of the excellent client care he provides and his ability to add real value to clients' business above and beyond other players in the market. For five consecutive years, Denny has been named to the Asia Business Law Journal A-List of Indonesia’s Top 100 Lawyers. Denny was each year from 2018 to 2021 a finalist for Managing Partner of the Year at the Asian Legal Business Indonesia Law Awards.

Denny has been recognized as one of Indonesia’s leading practitioners for banking and finance and carbon trading by Hukumonline.com, a one-stop platform for Indonesia's legal sector that identifies outstanding lawyers across practice areas.

Professional Memberships

• Navigating Cross-Border M&A: Insights Into Indonesia’s Legal Landscape (Singapore Academy of Law)

• Investment in Indonesia: Unlocking Opportunities (Asia Business Law Journal)

• Indonesia’s renewable energy bill: An ambitious attempt at energy transition

• ESG Regulations: Indonesia

• Hazardous and Toxic Waste Management Business Licensing in Indonesia

• New Regulation on Revenue Sharing Funds for Palm Oil Plantations in Indonesia

• Nationalisation Risk: Will Host Countries Hedge Their Bets Between Article 6 and the Voluntary Carbon Markets?

• Construction and Projects in Indonesia

• Restructuring and Insolvency in Indonesia

• Email Marketing Compliance: Indonesia

• Email Marketing Consent and Disclosures: Indonesia

Publications

• Navigating Cross-Border M&A: Insights Into Indonesia’s Legal Landscape (Singapore Academy of Law)

• Investment in Indonesia: Unlocking Opportunities (Asia Business Law Journal)

• Indonesia’s renewable energy bill: An ambitious attempt at energy transition

• ESG Regulations: Indonesia

• Hazardous and Toxic Waste Management Business Licensing in Indonesia

• New Regulation on Revenue Sharing Funds for Palm Oil Plantations in Indonesia

• Nationalisation Risk: Will Host Countries Hedge Their Bets Between Article 6 and the Voluntary Carbon Markets?

• Construction and Projects in Indonesia

• Restructuring and Insolvency in Indonesia

• Email Marketing Compliance: Indonesia

• Email Marketing Consent and Disclosures: Indonesia

Work Highlights

• Acted as Indonesia counsel to Tokushukai Medical Group, the largest medical services group in Japan and one of the largest medical services groups in the world, which provided financing to develop with Indonesia’s Harapan Kita Hospital a groundbreaking cardiovascular centre in Jakarta, which will be named the Harapan Kita-Tokushukai Cardiovascular Centre.

• Represented Samanea Group in the development of the integrated One-Stop O20 Regional Wholesale Trade City, consisting of the first and most comprehensive wholesale centre in Indonesia and warehousing, hotel, shopping centre, small office/home office, apartment and office spaces.

• Assisted luxury boutique hotel brand Ovolo Group with the acquisition of a resort hotel in Bali, the group’s first property outside of Hong Kong and Australia.

• Acted for China Fortune Land Development (CFLD) in the acquisition of approximately 280 hectares of land in West Java in connection with a CFLD project to develop a new industrial city.

• Acted for leading Malaysian plantation company TSH Resources Berhad as the seller in a US$110.1 million Indonesian landbank transaction.

• Assisted clients with property acquisitions, hospitality projects (including hotels and villas), office building leases and developments, and industrial property developments, including handling overlapping issues in connection with forestry and plantation matters.

• Acted as Indonesian counsel for London-based media company Moonbug Entertainment in the acquisition of Singapore-based media company and production studio One Animation. Moonbug Entertainment is a subsidiary of Candle Media, a media entity backed by private equity firm Blackstone. One Animation is behind children’s animated shows Oddbods, Antiks, Insectibles and Rob the Robot, among others. Oddbods is broadcast in more than 180 countries and is a three-time Emmy Award nominee.

Languages Spoken

English, Indonesian

Education