Yozua Makes

Practice Areas

Dr. Yozua Makes is the Founder and Managing Partner of Makes & Partners, an award-winning law firm in Southeast Asia established by him in 1993. He has more than 35 years of experience across corporate law, transnational mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, corporate finance, project finance, foreign investment and a broad range of complex cross-border commercial transactions.

Career

Yozua is astute in advising investors and domestic and foreign-owned companies in cross-border project developments, including providing strategy and assistance in negotiating and drafting transactional, corporate, and commercial agreements spanning across various industries and sectors. He is commended by clients for being a ‘razor sharp’ lawyer with comprehensive skills, adept in addressing legal, commercial, operational, financial, and even optical issues.

Yozua is a firm believer that solving a legal problem means more than just knowing the law and, therefore, his legal advice is well formulated and inclusive of not only the client's legal interests but also their commercial well-being. His competence and passion have made Makes & Partners the award-winning law firm that it is today. The Firm has a stellar record in capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, restructuring, fintech, and private equity transactions.

Professional Memberships

- Member of Southeast Asia Advisory Panel of Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited (Temasek Holdings).

- One of the 5 highly distinguished Presidential Appointee-Members of the Supervisory Board of the Indonesian Investment Authority (Indonesia’s first sovereign fund) created in February 2021.

-Member of the Supervisory Board of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN).

- one of the first members of the National Committee on Corporate Governance, a member of the Board of Experts of the Indonesian Publicly Listed Companies Association.

- Registered Capital Market Lawyer with the Financial Services Authority (Otoritas Jasa Keuangan or “OJK”).

- a distinguished associate professor at the Faculty of Law at University of Indonesia and at University of Pelita Harapan.

Publications

- Chambers and Partners-Asia Pacific, Indonesia Chapter on Mergers and Acquisitions (2022-2023)

- International Comparative Legal Guides (ICLG), Indonesia Chapter on Fintech (2023)

- Legal 500, The In-House Lawyer, Indonesia Chapter on Real Property (2023)

- International Law Reviews, Indonesia Chapter on Mergers & Acquisitions (2023)

- Getting the Deal Through (GTDT), Indonesia Chapter on Mergers and Acquisitions (2022)

- Chambers and Partners-Asia Pacific, Indonesia Chapter on Capital Markets (2020-2021)

- Indonesian Securities Takeover Regulations published in the University of Pennsylvania’s East Asia Law Review

Personal

Yozua Makes’ true added value is also reflected in the various roles he holds in highly strategic and prominent institutions, namely Indonesian Investment Authority and Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. These roles have allowed him to spearhead significantly complex capital market transactions by offering well-formulated, strategic and transaction-specific advice that extend beyond pure legal knowledge and encompass economic, commercial and other optical issues of public companies.

In 2014, Yozua Makes formed a strategic alliance with leading Singapore firm, WongPartnership LLP for seamless services throughout the region. In addition, a strategic alliance with Lubis Santosa Maramis (“LSM”) was also established, a move that leverages both the firms’ expertise in their respective fields of capital markets-merger & acquisition-corporate finance (for Makes) and litigation & arbitration (for LSM) and allows them to provide seamless and optimal services to the clients.

He is also the Founder and CEO of Plataran Indonesia, a homegrown Indonesian national pride hospitality company