Practice areas
Arbitration & ADR; bankruptcy & insolvency; competition & antitrust; corporate & commercial; litigation
Introduction
Ignatius Andy graduated cum laude in 1992 from Parahyangan Catholic University and started his legal career at Makarim & Taira S concentrating on commercial dispute resolutions and corporate commercial matters. He joined Hadiputranto Hadinoto & Partners (HHP), the correspondent office of Baker McKenzie in Jakarta, in 1996 in the banking and finance practice group.??He later played a significant role in the establishment and leadership of HHP’s litigation practice group and became a partner in 2001.
In July 2004, Andy established Ignatius Andy Law Offices (IALO), which has been recognised as a prominent boutique law firm in Indonesia for years. IALO has grown substantially due to the rapid expansion of its legal services and client base. IALO focuses its practice on antitrust issues, dispute resolution, as well as corporate and commercial matters. IALO’s dispute resolution and corporate commercial services include domestic and international as well as complex civil and commercial proceedings, bankruptcy, suspension of payment, business competition judicial proceedings, domestic and international arbitration, debt restructuring, and corporate and commercial transactions.
As an acknowledgement of the high-quality services, Andy and IALO have received various reputable awards as a Leading Lawyer and Law Firm of the Year, respectively, for dispute resolution, litigation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution, corporate, finance and financial transaction, labour and employment, and business competition. These accolades have been awarded by, among others, Asialaw Leading Lawyer, Asia Business Law Journal, Chambers Asia-Pacific, Corporate-INTL, Asian-Mena Counsel, Monthly Finance Global Awards, Legal Comprehensive, DealMakers, M&A Global Rankings, LawyerIssue Awards, Global Law Experts, Lawyers World Law Award, the Legal 100, the Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal, Benchmark Litigation, etc. Andy has also been listed as among the 100 prominent lawyers in Indonesia for more than five years.
During his professional practice, Andy has been representing and assisting numerous clients, e.g., Danone, Procter and Gamble (P&G), the World Bank, Coca-Cola, Carrefour, Newmont Corporation, Unilever, L’Oreal, Exxon, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Nestlé, Prudential, Manulife, IBM, Citibank, Astra International, Vale Indonesia, Sanofi-Aventis, Kraft Foods International, Indofood, Dupont, DOW Chemical, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Caterpillar, UBS, Credit Suisse Singapore, Telkomsel, Shopee, Kempinski and Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Currently, Andy is listed as an arbitrator at the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), the China Maritime Arbitration Commission (CMAC), the Indonesian Arbitration and Mediation Centre (PAMI) and the Borneo International Centre for Arbitration and Mediation (BICAM). This prestigious election marks another international recognition of our reputation in the legal profession, and we believe it will also benefit all of our clients accordingly in resolving commercial disputes in international settings.





