As in-house legal teams grow increasingly sophisticated, they are beginning to demand more from their law firms. And while many law firms meet their standards, there are some that cause frustration due to issues with billing, lack of expertise and attentiveness, and occasional outright incompetence. ALB looks into what in-house counsel based in Asia value in their law firm partners, and what will break their trust once and for all.
The Asian Legal Business has arrived at a final list of Asia’s top 40 lawyers under the age of 40, carefully selected amidst nominations received from more than 500 lawyers. The lawyers in this list come from varied jurisdictions and practice areas, and were selected after a rigorous process based on their quality of work, recommendations from their clients and colleagues and potential for future growth. The list is in alphabetical order and some lawyers have been profiled.
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DINASTI BRIAN HARAHAP
37, associate director/head of legal, M&A, NWP Retail
Harahap joined NWP Retail, a joint venture between Warburg Pincus (a global private equity firm) and PT City Retail Development Tbk (NIRO – a publicly listed Indonesian company), as a senior legal counsel. Within a year he was promoted to head of legal, M&A, mirroring the company’s DNA and its goal to rapidly develop, acquire, own and manage institutional quality commercial assets while contributing to the growth of the local community’s each asset serves.
Harahap leads an internal team of M&A legal professionals and has been instrumental in the company’s accelerated expansion from four seed assets in 2015 to nearly 50 assets today, including complex equity and debt transactions. Following a successful $200 million equity fundraising from international institutional investors in early 2019 (one of the largest fundraises ever for a private real estate company in Indonesia), Harahap successfully led