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Makarim & Taira S.

Vincent Ariesta Lie

Partner

Expertise

Corporate and Commercial
Foreign Investment
Infrastructure and Major Projects
Litigation and Dispute Resolution

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Makarim & Taira S.
Indonesia

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Vincent Lie is a Partner at Makarim & Taira S. who combines broad legal experience with a keen sense for clients’ business context. Vincent is able to counsel clients with a view to their commercial objectives and the regulatory landscape. Besides handling traditional corporate practice areas, he is also familiar with fast-evolving growth sectors in Indonesia such as energy and the digital.

He has represented prominent companies in a variety of proceedings and transactions such as, but not limited to, corporate and commercial matters including acquisitions and project financing, arbitration including enforcement of foreign arbitral awards, natural resources and energy (mining, oil and gas, power plants), and information technology/startups.

Vincent has spoken at various seminars and conferences on power plants, mining, and energy resources arranged by In-House Congress, the Asian Law Students’ Association, Padjajaran University and Pelita Harapan University.

Bar Admissions

Member, Indonesian Advocates Association (PERADI)

Education

LL.M., Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2004
S.H., University of Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia, 2001

Areas of Practice

Corporate and Commercial | Foreign Investment | Infrastructure and Major Projects | Litigation and Dispute Resolution | Mining and Energy

Professional Career

Significant Accomplishments

Asia Business Law Journal

The A-list – Indonesia’s Top 100 Lawyers (2017-2020)
Chambers & Partners Global

Band 4 in Projects & Energy (2021)
Up-&-Coming Lawyer in Projects & Energy (2018-2020)
IFLR1000

Highly Regarded Lawyer in Project Development, Project Finance, and M&A (2019-2020)
Chambers & Partners Asia-Pacific

Band 4 in Projects & Energy (2021)
Up-&-Coming Lawyer in Projects & Energy (2019-2020)
The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific

Recommended Lawyer in Projects & Energy (2021)
Asialaw

Rising Star in Banking & Finance (2019-2020)
Winner, Outstanding Practitioner in Indonesia by Asialaw Regional Awards 2019
Rising Star in Corporate/M&A (2018)
Asian Legal Business

Finalist, Young Lawyer of the Year by ALB Indonesia Law Awards (2017)

Professional Associations

Member, Association of Indonesian Legal Consultants (AKHI)
Member of the Board of Directors of the Indonesian Mining Association (IMA)
Member, International BAR Association (IBA)
Member, Inter-Pacific BAR Association (IPBA)

Professional Activities and Experience

Partner, Indrawan Santoso Lie, 2014 - 2015
Senior Associate, Ali Budiardjo, Nugroho, Reksodiputro, 2005 - 2014
Junior Associate, Purba, Yi & Lana, 2002 - 2003
Junior Associate, Frans Winarta & Partners, 2001 - 2002

Articles

Indonesia’s Newly Established Sovereign Wealth Fund: A New Chapter in Indonesia’s Economy
Makarim & Taira S., February 2021

As a developing country, Indonesia is still considered to have limited Government fiscal capacity and limited state-owned enterprise (Badan Usaha Milik Negara – “BUMN”) and financial sector funding capacity indicating that domestic capacity is not sufficient to meet what is needed to finance development and support economic growth and opportunities...

Indonesia’s Ratification of the Convention Abolishing the Requirement to Legalize Foreign Public Documents
Makarim & Taira S., February 2021

On 4 January 2021, the President of Republic of Indonesia issued Regulation No. 2 of 2021 on the Ratification of the Convention Abolishing the Requirement to Legalize Foreign Public Documents (“PR 2/2021”) (the convention is hereinafter referred to as the “Apostille Convention”). The Apostille Convention was concluded on 5 October 1961 and is intended to simplify a series of formalities for documents signed overseas for the contracting states...

Brief Introduction to Indonesia’s Job Creation / Omnibus Law on Broadening of the Investment Ecosystem and Business Activities, the Ease of Doing Business and Acceleration of National Strategic Projects Oriented Towards National Interests
Makarim & Taira S., December 2020

Law No. 11 of 2020 on Job Creation (the “Job Creation Law” or known as the Omnibus Law) was issued and came into effect on 2 November 2020. It is mainly based on the principles of the equalization of rights, legal certainty, greater ease of doing business, togetherness, and independence...

Additional Articles

Co-author of The Japanese Overseas Investment Report 2017: Indonesia, IFLR, 2017
Writer of different topics on investment, mining, and energy resources on various international and local publications

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