Hilton R King

Practice Areas

Antitrust & Competition Construction

Real Estate

Transportation

Employment

Infrastructure & Project Finance

Mergers & Acquisitions

Mining & Energy

Foreign Investment, Corporate & Commercials

Career

Hilton is one of Indonesia’s most experienced foreign legal consultants, and has practised in Indonesia for over 30 years, including 8 years as General Counsel of a diversified Indonesian investment group.

Hilton’s practice primarily focuses on investment and M&A transactions, with deep experience in energy, minerals and infrastructure projects. Hilton represented several IPPs through the development phase, and through restructurings with PLN and lenders following the ASEAN economic crisis, has been engaged on many electricity and mining company acquisitions and financings. He also acted for successful bidders on Indonesian Government privatizations, including the Surabaya container terminal.

In recent years highlights of Hilton’s practice have included advising on: PT Freeport Indonesia’s planned copper smelter development in East Java, the acquisition of PT Softex Indonesia by Kimberly-Clark Corp., the PT Paiton Energy US$ 2 billion bond issue and enhanced term loan, and the sale by Ferro of its Indonesian tile coatings subsidiaries to LoneStar.

Clients Hilton has represented include: Freeport Indonesia, General Electric, BHP Billiton, Mitsubishi Corporation, Marubeni Corporation, Bluescope Steel, Leightons Indonesia, KBR, P&O Group, Duke Energy, El Paso Corp, Itochu Corporation, Arnott’s, BAT, Eli Lilly, GSK, Taisho Pharmaceutical, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, BAE Systems, J Power, JBIC, Sinosure, ACE Insurance, Sompo Insurance, VISA, CEVA / TNT Logistics, Kimberly-Clark Corp., Ramsay Health Care, Lufthansa Systems, Sampoerna Strategic, SingTel, Halliburton, KBR, Rolls Royce, Ferro Corporation, Linde, AEC.

Professional Memberships

• Member and Legal Secretary, Board of Trustees of the British School Jakarta.

• Honorary Legal Advisor, The British Ambassador to Indonesia.

Publications

• Contributor, International Financial Law Review – “Asia M&A Forum 2010” – March 2010 – Hong Kong.

• Author, International Oil & Gas Finance Review 2000 (Euromoney): “Indonesia – Draft Bill on Oil & Gas Sector Deregulation”.

• Author, Project Finance International Year book 2000 (Thomson Financial): “IPPs in Indonesia – More twists and turns”.

• Author, Asia Law & Practice (Euromoney Publications) 1997: “Joint Ventures” – Indonesia, “Invest in Indonesia”.

• Author, International Financial Law Review (Euromoney Publications) 1991: “Joint Ventures” – Indonesia.