From left: Marshall Situmorang, founding partner and head of the labour and employment practice at Nusantara Legal Partnership, with L&E Global’s chairman John Sander and executive director Jeroen Douwes
Jakarta-based firm Nusantara Legal Partnership has partnered with L&E Global, an alliance of international labour law firms, to strengthen its cross-border capabilities.
“We are consistently approached by multinational corporations requiring counsel on Indonesian employment law,” Marshall Situmorang, founding partner and head of the labour and employment practice at Nusantara Legal Partnership, told Asia Business Law Journal.
He said this exclusive partnership would allow the firm to meet that demand.
Nusantara Legal Partnership is a boutique labour law firm established in Jakarta in 2018. Its practice covers corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, employment, personal data protection, banking and project finance, real estate and customs and trade, among others.
The firm’s key objectives involved deepening its practical experience by working on complex, cross-border cases alongside other alliance members, said Situmorang.
He also said the firm’s strategic focus remained exclusively on the Indonesian market, which was the core of their expertise. Rather than penetrating other jurisdictions, Nusantara Legal aimed to become an Indonesian resource for every other L&E Global member firm and prospective clients around the world, added Situmorang.
L&E Global is an alliance with 33 employment law firms across the globe. Most recently, it hosted an Asia-Pacific (APAC) roadshow, a series of in-person client seminars in Mumbai and Singapore, with representatives from Taiwan, China, the Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, India and Japan.
“Our clients are expanding manufacturing, logistics, technology and consumer operations there, and they increasingly need co-ordinated, on-the-ground employment law support to manage workforce strategy, compliance and disputes across the archipelago,” L&E Global told ABLJ.
L&E Global also said that through this alliance, multinationals operating across Southeast Asia and APAC benefit from cross-border employment advice, single-point co-ordination, consistent quality standards and local execution. Typical users are global and regional headquarters (legal and human resources) in sectors such as technology, manufacturing, financial services, infrastructure and consumer goods, including companies entering Indonesia or restructuring regional footprints.
Currently, there are no Thai, Malaysian and Vietnamese firms included in L&E Global’s network. However, L&E Global said it expected further Southeast Asian developments in due course.
