Denny Rahmansyah

Practice Areas

Denny Rahmansyah is the head of SSEK's construction and real estate/property practice and has extensive experience assisting clients with property acquisitions, hospitality projects (including hotels and villas), office building leases and developments, and industrial property developments.

His practice also includes banking and finance, compliance (anti-corruption and anti-bribery), cross-border debt restructurings, foreign investment, M&A, mining, carbon trading and green energy, plantation and forestry, and TMT (including data protection and privacy, fintech and e-commerce).

Career

Denny joined SSEK in 2001 from another prominent law firm in Jakarta, where he worked mostly in acquisitions and debt restructuring matters. Denny leads SSEK's construction and real estate/property practice and regularly acts for multinationals and domestic clients in all aspects of property acquisitions and developments.

Outside the real estate and property sector, Denny regularly advises clients in the TMT space, including on cryptocurrency and data protection and data privacy matters, and the establishment of fintech and e-commerce companies and their registration with the relevant authorities including the Ministry of Communications and Informatics and the Commodity Futures Trading Regulatory Agency (Bappebti). Denny represents clients with the establishment of foreign investment (PMA) companies, representative offices and branch offices in Indonesia, liaising with notaries and the relevant authorities for licensing matters, and advising on all the procedures and requirements under Indonesian law.

Clients praise Denny as a “very commercially minded lawyer who is great to work with and has strong negotiation skills” (Chambers Asia Pacific). Another client says: “I have nothing but good words and praise for Denny. He always gives 100% commitment backed by extensive experience and commercial knowledge” (Chambers Asia Pacific).

In addition to being recognized by Chambers & Partners, Denny is named by Asialaw, IFLR1000 and The Legal 500 as a leading lawyer in Indonesia for real estate/property and corporate law and M&A. Denny is the only lawyer in Indonesia to be acknowledged as a global leader in the Who’s Who Legal: Real Estate guide. He is named a Lexology Client Choice expert for real estate, in recognition of the excellent client care he provides and his ability to add real value to clients' business above and beyond other players in the market, and for three consecutive years, Denny has been named to the Asia Business Law Journal A-List of Indonesia’s Top 100 Lawyers. Denny was each year from 2018 to 2021 a finalist for Managing Partner of the Year at the Asian Legal Business Indonesia Law Awards.

Professional Memberships

• Inter-Pacific Bar Association

• Association of Indonesian Legal Consultants

• Indonesian Advocates Association (Peradi)

Publications

• Indonesia’s renewable energy bill: An ambitious attempt at energy transition

• ESG Regulations: Indonesia

• Hazardous and Toxic Waste Management Business Licensing in Indonesia

• New Regulation on Revenue Sharing Funds for Palm Oil Plantations in Indonesia

• Nationalisation Risk: Will Host Countries Hedge Their Bets Between Article 6 and the Voluntary Carbon Markets?

• Construction and Projects in Indonesia

• Restructuring and Insolvency in Indonesia

• Email Marketing Compliance: Indonesia

• Email Marketing Consent and Disclosures: Indonesia

Work Highlights

• Assisted TSH Resources Berhad, one of the largest Malaysia-based oil palm plantation groups, with the disposal of land covering more than 13,000 hectares in North Kalimantan, Indonesia. The land will be used for the development of the International Port and Industrial Estate (KIPI) to support Indonesia’s new capital, Nusantara. This KIPI area is said to be the largest green industrial area in the world, covering approximately 30,000 hectares in total, with an investment value of up to US$118.5 billion

• Represented Samanea Group in the development of the integrated One-Stop O20 Regional Wholesale Trade City, consisting of the first and most comprehensive wholesale center in Indonesia and warehousing, hotel, shopping center, small office/home office, apartment and office spaces.

• Assisted luxury boutique hotel brand Ovolo Group with the acquisition of a resort hotel in Bali, the group’s first property outside of Hong Kong and Australia.

• Acted for China Fortune Land Development (CFLD) in the acquisition of approximately 280 hectares of land in West Java in connection with a CFLD project to develop a new industrial city.

• Assisted MNC Land in its collaboration with The Trump Organization on the “Trump Residences Indonesia,” two ultra-luxury integrated developments in Bali and Lido, Bogor. SSEK was the only Indonesian law firm appointed to work on the projects.

• Acted for leading Malaysian plantation company TSH Resources Berhad as the seller in a US$110.1 million Indonesian landbank transaction.

• Assisting clients with property acquisitions, hospitality projects (including hotels and villas), office building leases and developments, and industrial property developments, including handling overlapping issues in connection with forestry and plantation matters.

• Acting as Indonesian counsel, assisted London-based media company Moonbug Entertainment with the acquisition of Singapore-based media company and production studio One Animation. Moonbug Entertainment is a subsidiary of Candle Media, a media entity backed by private equity firm Blackstone. One Animation is behind children’s animated shows Oddbods, Antiks, Insectibles and Rob the Robot, among others. Oddbods is broadcast in more than 180 countries and is a three-time Emmy Award nominee.

• Advised Malaysian plantation group TSH Resources Berhad on the Indonesian aspects of its secondary listing on the Mainboard of the Singapore Exchange (SGX).

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Indonesia

Languages Spoken

English – Full professional proficiency

Indonesian – Native/bilingual

Education

Awards