Freddy KARYADI

Introduction

Freddy Karyadi has around 27 years of practising law in Indonesia and has been heavily involved in numerous complex cross-border deals including energy, tax, restructuring, distressed assets, M&A, fintech, employment and dispute settlement or bankruptcy.

He was one of the pioneers who focused on the digital industry and has handled many transactions involving technology and fintech/health tech/edu tech/media/ TMT companies, from early-stage fundraising, integration, exit and public offering preparation to regulatory compliance. Karyadi’s clients vary from multinationals to startups, spanning a wide range of industries including natural resources, electricity, financial institutions (including  P2P, insurance, brokerage), banks (including digital and Shariah banks), private equity-venture capital, and property.

With a strong knowledge of legal, commercial, tax and accounting issues that these industries encounter, he can quickly identify the key issues and offer practical business-oriented legal solutions.

On litigation matters, he handled various suspensions of payment and bankruptcy proceedings of various industries including the aviation, shipping and mining sectors, and also assisted clients in tax disputes. Karyadi has been consistently rated as a leading lawyer by several international publications including Legal 500, Chambers, Asia Business Law Journal, IFLR1000 and Asialaw for the past half decade.

He is a Startup World Cup Mentor of Pegasus Tech Ventures a global venture capital firm with headquarters in Silicon Valley .

He contributes numerous legal and tax articles to IFLR, International Tax Review, Lexology, Conventus Law, Thomson Reuters, International Comparative Legal Guide and Getting the Deal Through. Karyadi was also a speaker at IBA, IPBA, IFA and IFLR events, and gave seminars for tech startup communities and acts a member of the editorial board of the Derivatives and Financial Instrument Journal of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentations.

His professional membership includes Indonesian Capital Market Legal Consultant, Indonesian Tax Consultant, International Fiscal Association, International Federation of Accountants. He is fluent in English and Bahasa.

Karyadi read law at the University of Indonesia (1998) and earned an LLM international tax from Leiden University (2002). He also graduated cum laude in 1997 from the faculty of economics of Trisakti University in Jakarta, holds an MBA degree from Peking University (2015), and is a licensed tax consultant and a chartered accountant. In 2010, he was seconded to a leading Dutch law and tax firm.