Even as the COVID-19 pandemic shook up the world, the IP landscape in the Asian region remained buoyant thanks to its agility and digital readiness. This was reflected in the best law firms for IP work, which went above and beyond when it came to servicing their clients in difficult times.
Even as the COVID-19 pandemic shook up the world, the IP landscape in the Asian region remained buoyant thanks to its agility and digital readiness. This was reflected in the best law firms for IP work, which went above and beyond when it came to servicing their clients in difficult times.
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals picked up steam throughout Asia Pacific during the first half of 2021, in no small measure due to a rebound from the worst economic ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic through 2020. With vaccine rollouts continuing and border restrictions being gradually loosened, M&A lawyers can look forward to an upswing in work in 2022 and beyond.
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