The Firm

BT PARTNERSHIP ("BTP") is an Indonesian law firm with international orientation and network, dedicated and specialized in producing dynamic result-oriented legal services for each of its clients. BTP was established by Rahmat Bastian, a well-known banking & finance, restructuring and insolvency advocates in Indonesia, and followed with the inception of Satrya Wijaya Teja, previously served as foreign consultant of an international financial law firm based in New York, into the partnership as a mixture of qualified prominent banking & finance litigation lawyer and banking & finance corporate lawyer. Following a motivational post-graduate lectures that both of them took in Switzerland, it has became their original value that lawyers within BTP must always be committed to handle and solve every legal matters and issues pertaining to client’s business, commercial and financial exposures. Effective representation and comprehensive advices are our significant principles to ensure that the highest standards of our client’s expectations are always met. BTP lawyers are also fully licensed to ensure effective representation of our clients within and outside the court.

The partners of BTP directly handled and were involved in, among others, the first bankruptcy litigation with a justified judgment rendered by Indonesian Supreme Court, the first until the fifth bankruptcy litigation against Indonesian state enterprises, the first bankruptcy litigation against insurance company, the pioneer in setting up powerful precedents in favor of foreign lenders in the Commercial Court, the largest swap and derivative providers’ claim to an insolvent public company, the biggest swap and derivative litigation against Indonesian public foreign-exchange bank, the most complex assets acquisition by a major group of European and Japan companies, the first Indonesian debt restructuring and corporate reorganization, the first forensic and assets tracing for Indonesian government, the sale and purchase of entire bank loans and investment portfolio, the sale and purchase of entire securities firm assets, the first successful debt restructuring involving debt-to-equity conversion of an integrated Indonesian chemical companies with foreign banks, state banks and Indonesian Bank restructuring Agency (“IBRA”), the first batch of IBRA corporate and loan sale, the biggest Indonesian public company’s debt restructuring in term of values as quoted in International Financial Law Review, numerous debt restructuring on behalf of lenders, steering committee and certain qualified borrowers including bonds and notes negotiation, corporate reorganization of a number of Indonesian commercial bank during the crisis, several tax forensic audit cases and hundreds dispute resolution cases on behalf of foreign clients involving international arbitration, tort and tort-defense litigation, criminal investigation and insolvency litigation of more than US$3 billion worth of law suits.

BTP is your dynamic and aggressive Indonesian law firm for a customized and sophisticated niche of work as follows:

• Banking & Finance • Capital Market & Securities • Commercial & Tax • Investment & Arbitration • Structured Finance & Financial Engineering Transactions • Corporate Finance including Sharia Finance, Project Finance & Asset Financing Transactions • Corporate Reorganization & Debt Restructuring • Merger & Acquisition • Leveraged Buy Out, Repo & Securitization • Strategic Alliance, Farm Out and Franchising • Money Markets & Commodity Markets • Financial Products including their Swaps & Derivatives, Exchangeable or Convertible Instruments • Venture Capital • Foreign & Domestic Investments including Joint Venture, Joint Operation, Licensing & BOT/BOO scheme • International Trade • Energy and Infrastructure • Insurance, Reinsurance & Pension Fund • Strategic Criminal & Commercial Litigation • Insolvency & Bankruptcy • Liquidation & Dissolution