Denny Rahmansyah

Practice Areas

Real estate and property, banking and finance, compliance (anti-corruption and anti-bribery), cross-border debt restructurings, data protections/privacy, foreign investment, M&A, TMT (including fintech/e-commerce), mining, carbon and green climate, plantation and forestry

Career

Denny Rahmansyah is the supervising partner of SSEK’s construction and real estate practice. He is an extensively experienced lawyer who joined SSEK in 2001 and regularly assists clients on hospitality (including hotels and villas), office and industrial property developments.

Denny is also deeply involved in major transactions related to cross-border mergers and acquisitions, cross-border debt restructurings, banking and finance companies, plantations, private power and infrastructure projects.

Prior to joining SSEK, Denny was associated with another prominent law firm in Jakarta, where he worked mostly in acquisitions and debt restructuring matters.

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, and corporate law and /M&A. Denny was each year from 2018 to 2021 a finalist for Managing Partner of the Year at the Asian Legal Business Indonesia Law Awards. For two consecutive years, Denny has been named to the Asia Business Law Journal A-List of Indonesia’s Top 100 Lawyers. Denny is the only lawyer in Indonesia to be acknowledged as a global leader in the recent Who’s Who Legal Real Estate guide. Denny is named by Lexology as the only Client Choice Award Winner in Indonesia for real estate.

Professional Memberships

• Inter-Pacific Bar Association

• Association of Indonesian Legal Consultants

• Indonesian Advocates Association (Peradi)

Publications

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

• Privacy in Indonesia

• Construction and Projects in Indonesia

• Restructuring and Insolvency in Indonesia

• Email Marketing Compliance: Indonesia

• Email Marketing Consent and Disclosures: Indonesia

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Indonesia

Languages Spoken

English – Full professional proficiency

Indonesian – Native/bilingual

Work Highlights

• Represented Samanea Group in the development of the integrated One-Stop O20 Regional Wholesale Trade City, consisting of the first and most comprehensive wholesale center in Indonesia and warehousing, hotel, shopping center, 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.

• Assisted MNC Land in its collaboration with The Trump Organization on the “Trump Residences Indonesia,” two ultra-luxury integrated developments in Bali and Lido, Bogor. SSEK was the only Indonesian law firm appointed to work on the projects.

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

• Assisting 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.

• Acting as Indonesian counsel, assisted London-based media company Moonbug Entertainment with 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.

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