72 Acquisition International - April 2017 The honour of the Indonesian Best Recommended Technology Media & Telecommuncations Lawyer of 2017 was recently awarded to Mika Isac Kriyasa of Hanafiah Ponggawa & Partners (HPRP). Being a young and dynamic Indonesian lawyer, with a user-friendly legal services approach has made him being renowned among client as the ‘Tech-Legate’. ika’s expertise as a business lawyer has served global market players entering Indonesian soil with contentment and praise to the ‘Tech-Legate’. “He always has a game face at the time of negotiation, but when you know him like I do, he always smiles and make other people do the same outside the battlefield”, said one of his clients, who happens to be the head of in-house council of one of the largest Indonesian notebook market leaders. In terms of being recognised as the Best Recommended Technology Media & Telecommunications Lawyer of 2017, Mika said, “thank you. I am pleased, deeply honoured and humbled to receive this award. To be recognised and acknowledged by an international organisation such as yours, for work on something that I have done daily as a career. This recognition serves in encouraging me immensely for my efforts. “Also, it gives a feeling that my work is meaningful and of worth. I shall work towards my own goals and those of my clients with a renewed vigour” he said, through his mobile, meanwhile his client called him back couple of times, to be back for the meeting for a software acquisition transaction. Mika Isac Kriyasa has nearly 15 years’ experience as a business lawyer representing technology, media and telecommunication companies, financial institutions, inventors, entrepreneurs and investors in a wide range of corporate, commercial and investment matters. He has worked for Hanafiah Ponggawa and Partners (HPRP Lawyers) for more than 8 years, served clients such as: • Bank Indonesia (Indonesian Central Bank) for their technology transformation projects, • Indonesian Capital Investment Coordinating Board for drafting the Indonesian Bilateral Investment Treaty Template • IBM as top player in cloud services in coordination with Jones Day Germany Office Company: Hanafiah Ponggawa & Partners (HPRP) Name: Mika Isac Kriyasa Email:
[email protected] Web: hprplawyers.com Address: Wisma 46 – Kota BNI, 32nd and 41st Floor (Main Reception), Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav.1, Jakarta 10220, Indonesia Phone: +62 21 570 1837, 574 6545 The ‘Tech-Legate’ M 1703AI28 • Acer Indonesia as the Indonesian notebook market leader and TCL as one of China’s biggest multinational electronic company, which also one of the top three largest television manufacturers, numerous e-commerce and fintech companies, • assisting Bank Syariah Mandiri as the largest sharia bank in Indonesia in their core banking system transformation and assisting Rp 1 trillion syndicated loan financing project between 15 banks, for one of the largest satellite and terrestrial network provider in Indonesia, with combination financing scheme between sharia and conventional. In a rapidly evolving, technical field where no single person can be an expert in all specialties, Mika worked for one of the prominent intellectual property law firms at the start of his career in 2004. Throughout his tenure, he has learned and practiced intellectual property related matters and served clients who are involved in entertainment, multimedia, movies and wholesales businesses. Mika also worked for a firm who supported the legal work for the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (known as Badan Penyehatan Perbankan Nasional or IBRA) after he graduated from University of Indonesia in 2002. The IBRA no longer exist, indeed it was dissolved in 2004. It was established to reorganise the banking industry, by selling and restructuring the unfavourable assets of some unhealthy Indonesian banks. Such work has prepared his fundamental legal skill in meeting the most crucial challenge in business, which is the financing and structuring of a deal. The opportunity has made him see the entire structuring scheme which was made by each debtor of such banks, under different industries, and he has learnt much from this. Mika has deep roots in the telecommunication and tech business, indeed one of his career paths was working for satellite pay-tv media industries, having served as in-house counsel in Astro TV investment project in Indonesia around 2005 to 2008. This opportunity opened his eyes to international tech, media and telecoms Industry. Lauded by Acquisition International in 2016 as Most Innovative Lawyer in his jurisdiction, Mika has represented Tech Media and Telecoms Company, through his work for HPRP Lawyers. This year Mika has done it again, as the award winner for the Best Recommended Technology Media & Telecommuncations Lawyer of 2017. “Thank you. I am pleased, deeply honoured and humbled to receive this award. To be recognised and acknowledged by an international organisation such as yours, for work on something that I have done daily as a career.” The ‘Tech-Legate’