Riza Buditomo, a former head of trade practice and founder of the customs practice at Baker & McKenzie International’s Indonesia member HHP Law Firm, is set to launch his own legal practice called Anagata Law Firm headquartered in Jakarta on 14 January.
The aim, Anagata’s managing partner Buditomo told Asia Business Law Journal, was to provide clients with customised and alternative advice for key areas such as tax, customs and foreign investment.
“We have prepared ourselves to be equipped with experts that can support and cater to clients with those needs. We are focusing on tax, trade, customs, anti-monopoly and intellectual property as our core strengths with the support of our work from foreign investments, M&A and corporate commercial,” said Buditomo.
Buditomo, who has more than two decades of experience in tax and trade including customs laws, pointed to tax and customs as well as foreign investment as having been among areas with the highest demand for advice from domestic and international investors in recent years.
He said such demand had been driven by the Indonesian government’s intention to boost infrastructure, technology including e-commerce as well as the current food programme, with many M&A transactions in these fields having taken place in the past year.
Buditomo previously practised as a partner focusing on trade and customs at HHP Law Firm, where he spent more than 17 years of his legal career between 2005 and 2023. Most recently, before establishing Anagata Law Firm, Buditomo was a founder and a leader of the trade and customs practice of Indonesian law firm Armand Yapsunto Muharamsyah and Partners.
The trade and customs specialist, who also regularly advises on corporate commercial as well as foreign investment and M&A matters, would kick-start the new firm with 14 staff members including three partners, two of counsel, one attorney director and head of customs practice as well as three associates and a counsel, Buditomo told Asia Business Law Journal.
All the key members of the firm, such as corporate commercial and trade practice partner Muhammad Ramzi and tax practice partner Marvin Octavdio, are all former lawyers at HHP. Of counsel Mochamad Fachri, who is also a core member of the firm supporting the partners with more than 23 years of experience advising on litigious and advisory aspects of competition law in addition to corporate and M&A, had previously practised at HHP for more than 28 years.
Anagata, whose main office is in Jakarta, also runs an East Indonesian desk in Surabaya.
