As certainly one of Indonesia’s leading regulation firm. 28 October 2014 marked another milestone within the progress of Assegaf Hamzah & Companions (“AHP”), with AHP celebrating being the Indonesian member agency of Rajah & Tann Asia Community, the largest community of legislation companies in Southeast Asia.
The U.K. had an identical rule barring nonlawyer ownership, but under reforms implemented by the Authorized Services Act of 2007 regulation companies have been capable of take on a limited variety of non-lawyer partners and attorneys have been allowed to enter into a wide variety of enterprise relationships with non-lawyers and non-lawyer owned companies.
The transactional division advises clients and handles transactional authorized work, reminiscent of drafting contracts, handling crucial authorized applications and filings, and evaluating and making certain compliance with related legislation; while the litigation division represents shoppers in court docket and handles mandatory issues (akin to discovery and motions filed with the courtroom) all through the process of litigation.
Most regulation companies are positioned in workplace buildings of various sizes, starting from modest one-story buildings to some of the tallest skyscrapers on this planet (although only in 2004, Paul Hastings was the first firm to put its name on a skyscraper).
Still within the spirit of attracting FDI in Indonesia, there are a considerable variety of business lines whose permitted foreign shareholding will probably be increased, with the rise various as follows: 33% to 67% (distribution and warehouses), 49% to 67% (work training and travel bureaus), fifty one% to 67% (personal museums, meals services (catering), meeting, incentive, conference, and exhibition companies, 55% to 67% (construction consultancy companies with challenge worth exceeding IDR 10 billion), to the rise from 65% to 67% (built-in telecommunication network suppliers).