Friliantari Putri

Associate

Friliantari Putri is a promising young lawyer with more than 4 years of experience assisting clients in general corporate, technology, media and telecommunications  (TMT), antitrust, securities companies and multi-finance industries and has comprehensive legal knowledge on the matters.

Friliantari Putri graduated from Faculty of Law, Universitas Indonesia, majoring in Economic Law and obtained her LL.M. in Intellectual Property and Technology Law from University of Pennsylvania Law School. During her university years, she was actively involved in various student organizations, including Asian Law Students’ Association (ALSA) where she served as a member of Board of Directors of Local Chapter Universitas Indonesia and was an editor for Journal of International Law of University of Pennsylvania Carey law School.

Since joining Walalangi & Partners, Friliantari Putri has been involved in various M&A transactions, antitrust cases, TMT, securities companies and multi-finance industries, and general corporate matter and have extensive knowledge on the matters.

Friliantari Putri has assisting clients in the following projects:

  • Counsel to one of the largest Japanese banks in its USD200 million acquisition of  an e-commerce and digital financing services businesses throughout Southeast Asia, which would allow the client to further contribute and fulfil various financial needs to customers in Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries as well as leveraging its group’s growth in financial services sector.
  • Counsel to Mitsui Co & Ltd,and FP Corporation  on its Indonesian post-acquisition merger report of their acquisition of Lee Soon Seng Plastic Industries Sdn. Bhd., one of the largest manufacturers of functional food containers in Malaysia with packaging wholesalers in Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, the Philippines, and other Southeast Asian nations.
  • Counsel to one of the Japanese leading information technology solution companies,  in its  proposed cross-border acquisitions of a Singaporean information technology cloud and digital transformation companies, which would allow the Client to expand its business to provide a unique and competitive hybrid cloud solutions in both public and private sectors  in Southeast Asia region, including Indonesia.
  • Counsel to Mitsubishi Corporation and Sinar Mas Land on the inauguration of the PoC of Indonesia’s first autonomous electric vehicle at Q-Big BSD City, using first intelligent transportation system of French-made shuttle bus Navya Arma. The 15-passenger self-driving electric vehicle has a battery capacity of 33 kWh and is equipped with Global Positioning System (GPS) and Light Radar (LIDAR) sensor. This goes in parallel with the vision of G20, i.e., to go towards smart green cities, more low-carbon mobility, and less traffic congestion.
  • Advising a leading Japanese telecommunication and a Japanese Fortune Global 500 company on various Indonesian law’s regulatory framework related to its proposed investment in various digital payment and finance sectors in Indonesia, including among others, mobile payment and Q&R code based payment services, online loyalty point related services, digital banking and financing, small loan online services, digital consumer finance (including buy now pay later (BNPL) arrangement), and digital insurance.
  • Advising one of the most rapid growing technology and game companies based in the US, with approximately 36.2 million daily users (spanning over 180 countries) and revenue of US$589 million only for January – September 2020, on various Indonesian regulatory matters to include gaming regulations, gaming applications rating, registration requirements, content requirements and restrictions as well as personal data protection.
  • Counsel to major Japanese consumer credit supplier Orient Corp in the acquisition of a majority interest in an Indonesian finance company PT Mizuho Balimor Finance from Mizuho Bank. Established in 1989, PT Mizuho Balimor Finance has capital of 448 billion rupiah and receivables of around USD 190 million.
  • Counsel to Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance Company, Limited (MUL), one of the biggest leasing and financing companies in the world, on its Indonesian post-merger report related matter with Hitachi Capital Corporation (HC), a Japan-based company engaged in leasing and financing services business in Japan and overseas. The merger is calculated at USD 2.8 billion and considered as one of the biggest merger deals, which results in the combined company’s annual sales amounting to USD 13.3 billion, assets worth about USD 95 billion, and almost 10,000 employees.
  • Advising an emerging Indonesian marketplace platform start-up that facilitates small-medium size enterprises in selling their products online and help them with bookkeeping – in relation to (i) analysis and legal constructing of its data collection and storage, payment initiation, administration and verification of source of fund, e-money issuance, (ii) structuring its existing business activities and key licensing requirements, (iii) structuring its payment services provider (PSP) license, scope of activities, shareholding and voting for foreign shareholders and capitalization and (iv) analysis on its share acquisitions plan of PSP companies.

Publication:

  • Researcher for the preparation of the publication of 2020 edition of The International Comparative Legal Guide (ICLG) to Mergers & Acquisitions, Global Legal Group, 2020.