Corporate Services

Strategic, Secure, Successful. Investing in a foreign jurisdiction like Indonesia presents multiple complex challenges. Our corporate advisors help you meet those challenges with robust strategies designed to maximise returns and secure your Indonesian assets.

A successful investment is built on a solid corporate foundation. From the moment you decide to invest, our advisors work to ensure your business is structured for legal compliance, tax efficiency, and long-term success.

We help you navigate the corporate landscape so you can focus on your business goals, confident that your structure is sound and secure.

Our Corporate Services

We provide strategic guidance across the entire corporate lifecycle:

  • Company Establishment: Full assistance in establishing a foreign-owned company (PT PMA), ensuring the correct business classifications and ownership structure.
  • Tax Compliance & Strategy: Designing and implementing tax-efficient strategies to ensure you remain fully compliant with Indonesian regulations.
  • Investment & Business Planning: Developing comprehensive investment strategies and business plans tailored to the Indonesian market.
  • Joint Ventures & Shareholders: Structuring secure joint venture agreements and advising on shareholder management to protect your interests.
  • Government Relations: Acting as your liaison to navigate bureaucracy and build positive relationships with key government agencies.
  • Trusts & Superannuation: For clients in some overseas jurisdictions (e.g., Australia), we provide expert advice on using trusts and superannuation funds for Indonesian investments.

Navigating Cross-Border Complexity

We recently advised Australian investors who needed to sell their Indonesian properties on an international online auction platform. This created significant conflict-of-law issues. Our team undertook substantial work to successfully integrate the international platform with local legal and corporate obligations, allowing the properties to be marketed globally.

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Integrating International & Local Law for Online Property Sales

The Challenge: Australian investors contracted a major international auction house to sell their Indonesian properties using a sophisticated online platform. They assumed the process would be straightforward, but the platform’s operations conflicted with local Indonesian legal and corporate obligations for property transfers.

Our Solution: Our advisors undertook substantial work to bridge the gap between the two jurisdictions. This involved liaising with the international auction house and local authorities to create a legally compliant workflow that satisfied the requirements of both the online platform and Indonesian law.

The Result: We successfully integrated the two systems, allowing the properties to be legally and effectively marketed and sold on the international online platform, opening them up to a global market.

Key Lesson for Investors: Investors must ensure they do not assume the laws and regulations of their domestic jurisdiction will seamlessly transfer to Indonesia. The integration of international jurisdictions often creates conflict-of-law issues which only experienced advisers can navigate.

Doing the right thing,
at the right time.