Bank Finance
Our team is highly regarded and has extensive experience advising local and international clients on various financings, debt restructurings, project finance, security structures and enforcement, as well as international bond offering matters.
Our Indonesian bank finance team represents lenders, underwriters and arrangers, including negotiating and documenting the various agreements involved across a range of secured loan and structured finance transactions.
WCA, in association with White & Case, has extensive project finance experience and can provide high-end advice and transactional support to major global and domestic energy and natural resource companies, investors, lenders and traders in the financing of new projects.
Our noted areas of experience include:
- Acquisition/leveraged finance
- Asset-backed loans
- Bilateral and syndicated finance
- Bridge-to-bond financing
- Credit transactions
- Derivatives
- Pre-IPO financing
- Real estate finance
- Structured finance
- Trade/receivables finance
Mergers & Acquisitions
We represent buyers, sellers, advisers, lenders and financial intermediaries in the entire spectrum of activities related to cross-border mergers and acquisitions, strategic stake sales, leveraged buyouts, distressed sales, joint ventures and equity investments involving Indonesian entities. We have experience reviewing and negotiating merger agreements, sale and purchase agreements for both shares and assets, joint venture agreements, shareholder agreements and equity subscription agreements.
We are able to draw on industry-specific experience available through our association with White & Case and its worldwide network of lawyers who have specialized areas of practice, including strength in the resources sector, such as mining, plantations, forestry, oil and gas, in the consumer and manufacturing sector and in the telecommunications, media and technology sector. For transactions structured as competitive auctions, when acting as counsel for the seller, we have assisted clients in all aspects of the process, including the structuring of such auctions, the preparation of all bid documents and the evaluation of bids. When acting as counsel for the bidder, we have assisted in the submission of bid documents advising on and, where possible, minimizing risk elements as well as emphasizing our client’s strategic, financial or other strengths to highlight them as a preferred bidder.
Capital Markets
Our team has experience representing issuers, sponsors and underwriters across the full spectrum of capital markets products. Through our association with White & Case, we are able to offer an integrated approach, and we invest in each transaction with partner-led teams of Indonesian lawyers who work together seamlessly to provide a consistent quality of service to our clients. The WCA capital markets team is highly regarded and has strong relationships with international, regional and local banks, having advised on some of the most high-profile cross-border capital markets transactions out of the Indonesian market.
Our experience ranges from traditional capital-raising to intricate, cross-border financing strategies for acquisitions, reorganizations or restructurings, as well as regulatory matters. We cover every type of securities transaction and have capabilities in debt, equity, derivatives, high yield, investment funds, structured finance, regulatory advice and corporate trust, covering all aspects of capital markets financings.
Our noted areas of experience include, among others:
- IPOs and re-IPOs
- Secondary offerings
- Rights offerings
- High yield
- MTN programs
- Sukuk offerings
- Convertible, exchangeable and other
equity-linked products - Liability management
