Overview
David has extensive experience in corporate, commercial, M&A and projects transactions, with particular expertise in the energy, resources, infrastructure and financial services sectors. A partner with Linklaters, David is currently on secondment as Senior Foreign Legal Advisor with the firm’s alliance firm, Widyawan & Partners, in Jakarta, where he has been based since 2008.
Experience
David has led on many market-leading transactions. These include advising:
- Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and PT. Bank Sumitomo Mitsui Indonesia on the merger of PT. Bank Sumitomo Mitsui Indonesia with PT Bank Tabungan Pensiunan Nasional Tbk
- Pertamina, Marubeni and Sojitz consortium on the development and financing of 1,760MW Jawa 1 gas-fired combined-cycle power project (including an exclusive provision of FSRU) in West Java, Indonesia
- PT Medco Power Indonesia and Ratchaburi Electricity Generation Holding PCL as sponsors on the project financing of a 275MW Gas Fired Power Plant Project in Riau province, Indonesia
- Inpex on the development of its Masela project, Abadi field, offshore Indonesia, one of the largest oil and gas project currently under development in Indonesia
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia in the auction sale of its Indonesian life insurance business, PT Commonwealth Life, to FWD Group
- PT Pamapersada Nusantara on the US$1.21bn acquisition of a 95% interest in an Indonesian company which owns concession rights to the Martabe gold and silver mine in North Sumatra province in Indonesia
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