RECOGNIZED SUCCESS
Our role in helping our clients achieve their targeted objectives in their businesses has been recognized not only by our clients and the Indonesian legal market, but also by various publishing houses. We have outlined below some of the recognitions that Makes & Partners has received:
  • IFLR1000 Our Managing Partner, Mr. Yozua Makes and the other two of our Partners, Mr. Iwan Setiawan and Mr. Irfan Ghazali have been nominated as the 2012 Indonesian Leading Lawyers in Capital Market and Banking and Finance sector by IFLR1000.



  • Makes & Partners has been chosen and acknowledged as the 2012 Leading Firm by Legal 500. We have been recommended by Legal 500 in some of our practice areas namely Capital Market, Banking and Finance, Corporate and M&A and last but not least Projects and Energy. The Legal 500 Series, now in its 25th year, is widely acknowledged as the world's largest legal referral guide. This year, more than 250,000 in-house counsel and lawyers have been surveyed and interviewed globally. The Legal 500 is an independent guide, and firms and individuals are recommended purely on merit.

  • Makes & Partners has been chosen and acknowledged as the 2011 Indonesia Capital Market Law Firm of the Year by CorpINTL.
    This award is from Corporate International which is a publication through print and electronic media which caters to both domestic and international business communities, featuring the latest analysis on in key practice areas, sectors and market reviews. The publication also promotes the major contributions and service provided by leading professionals in their respective fields.
    Its readers consists of legal and financial advisers, the senior and executive management of thousands of leading businesses both public and private, various world's venture capitalist associations and members and directors of key networks, alliances and organizations.

  • Makes & Partners has been named an Asian-Mena Counsel 'In-House Community Firm Of The Year' in Indonesia for the category of Capital Market by In-House Community.
    Asian Mena Counsel Magazine which is a monthly published magazine which presents in-depth scrutiny for a more comprehensive understanding of various legal, regulatory and business issues significant to many if not most current market players. The magazine also publish important articles relating to and with detailed profiling of leading private practitioners or law firms who have contributed to the growth and improvement of their respective country's capital economy in several categories. It is mainly a resource material addressing the needs of in-house lawyers and the corporate legal community.

  • IFLR1000 In the Indonesia section of the 2011 edition of the International Financial Law Review (IFLR) 1000, Makes & Partners was ranked in Tier 1 in the practice area of capital markets, and as a top-tiered firm in the following practice areas: banking, mergers & acquisitions, restructuring & insolvency, and project finance.

  • 2011 Equity Market Deal of the Year- our Firm was listed as the finalists of ALB Law Awards 2011 in the following categories: (i) “Equity Market Deal of the Year” for project PT Indofood IPO (ii) “SE Asia M&A Deal of the Year” for project CVC-Matahari Department Store Acquisition and (iii) and also has been nominated as “The Indonesia Deal Firm of the Year”.

  • Recommended Law Firm by Global Law Experts (GLE), which is a leading provider of an extensive editorial overview of law firm services and expertise of over 1,600 attorneys from 140 countries representing more than 35 practice areas. The lawyers featured represent the leading legal advisers in almost every major practice area and jurisdiction. Global Law Experts has identified our Firm as the exclusive legal adviser for Merger and Acquisition Law in Indonesia.

  • The Winner of Capital Market Law Firm of The Year by The Deal makers Monthly Law Awards, an established global Deal reporting publication reaching out to a variety of readers to include CEO/CFO - Banks, Corporate Lawyers and Venture Capital/Private Equity Companies and circulated to approximately 81,500 readers.

  • Law Firm of The Year – Telecommunication Makes & Partners Law Firm has been voted as a winner in Finance Monthly Law Awards 2011. The Finance Monthly awards are among the most prestigious awards in the legal profession, enjoying global recognition. The winners are decided based on international poll, which is delivered to over 50,000+ subscribers each month and is read by the global finance industry and those who contribute to it.

  • Capital Market 2010 Indonesian - Capital Markets Law Firm of the Year Award was awarded to our Firm after an extensive search by the Global Law Experts (GLE) which involved getting feedbacks from more than 18,000 business directors, in-house council, independent law firms, high net-worth individuals, bar associations, visitors to the GLE website and LinkedIn users. GLE also conducted an independent search and the winner was judged based on client testimonials, key cases from the past 12 months, legal rankings, overall reputation, publication contribution, speaking engagements and the performance and standing of the team's individual attorneys. Our firm singlehandedly received the most nominations of any lawyer in Indonesia in the field of Capital Markets law this year.

  • Makes & Partners was one of the finalists in the BMW Asia ALB SE Asia Law Awards 2009 in the following categories: (i) "Indonesia Deal Firm of the Year" and (ii) "Asset & Corporate Finance Deal of the Year".

  • Our Partners have also received individual recognitions. Our Managing Partner, Mr. Yozua Makes, was recently nominated for the 2009 Asialaw Leading Lawyers Award in the Practice area of Project Finance, and our Senior Partner, Mr. Iwan Setiawan, was nominated for the same award in the practice area of Capital Markets/Corporate Finance.

  • Chambers Asia 2009 of Chambers & Partners recently affirmed Makes & Partners’ status as an Indonesian law firm of excellence.

  • In 2008, the IBU Coal Mine Private Financing Deal, in which Makes & Partners advised the Placement Agent, was recognized as the Project Finance Deal of the Year for 2008 by the Asian Legal Business (ALB). This was the first greenfield coal financing in Asia valued at US$ 135 million backed by private investor funds and involved structured equity-linked notes featuring a detachable convertible equity.

  • In 2008, our Managing Partner, Mr. Yozua Makes, and Senior Partner, Mr. Iwan Setiawan, were nominated for the 2008 Asialaw (member of Euromoney Asia publishing) Leading Lawyers Trophy in the practice area of Corporate Finance, Capital Market, Mergers and Acquisitions.

  • Mr. Yozua Makes recently joined a panel of highly selected authors of the Mergers and Acquisitions Review published by Law Business Research Ltd, London. He is the sole contributor of articles on Mergers and Acquisitions in Indonesia for years 2008, 2009 and 2010.

  • In 2007, the First REIT, in which Makes & Partners was the Indonesian legal advisor to the Issuer, won the Mundial Award as the Equity Capital Market Deal of the Year for 2007 by the Asian Legal Business (ALB).

  • Makes & Partners was nominated as finalist in the following four distinguished categories by Asian Legal Business in 2007 and the Asian Counsel in 2008 (January/February issue); (i) Project Finance Deal of the Year, (ii) Asset & Corporate Finance Deal of the Year, (iii) Equity Market Deal of the Year, and (iv) Indonesian Deal Firm of the Year.

  • In 2006, Asia Law recognized Makes & Partners as "one of the top three Indonesian firms in IT, Telecom & Media" and our Managing Partner was regarded as one of the "highly acclaimed legal experts in Asia in the practice area of Project Finance".

  • In 2003, Makes & Partners received the Law Firm of the Year Award from the Indonesian legal magazine Legal Review (Business Media LLC).

  • As reported in the Asian Wall Street Journal on December 16, 2002, the BCA and Indosat transactions are the two, single largest sales of an Indonesian company to a foreign investor since the 1997 – 1998 Asian financial crisis.

  • As per the records of the International Financial Law Review, Makes & Partners is one of the few Indonesian law firms to be nominated in three consecutive years for its Asian Legal Deal of the Year Award.

  • In its 16th December 2002 edition, the Asian Wall Street Journal acknowledged the BCA and Indosat transactions, which Makes & Partners advised, on as the two single largest sale of Indonesian companies to foreign investors since the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis.

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