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Multi-jurisdictional
With a strong presence across Southeast and South Asia, DFDL provides you with unrivaled local insights, ensuring you navigate complex legal and tax landscapes with confidence.
Multi-disciplinary
Benefit from our multidisciplinary approach and industry-specific expertise. We offer bespoke solutions that address your unique challenges and opportunities.
A Multicultural Team
Solutions
Anti-Trust and Competition
Aviation and Logistics
Banking and Finance
Compliance and Investigations
Corporate Advisory
Corporate and M&A
Dispute Resolution
Employment
Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure
Investment Funds
Real Estate and Hospitality
Restructuring
Tax and Transfer Pricing
Technology, Media and Telecoms
Anti-Trust and Competition
With a proven track record in antitrust and competition law, DFDL has consulted in the development of regulatory regimes across South and Southeast Asia. Our expertise ensures clients navigate these evolving landscapes effectively, providing compliance and strategic guidance in jurisdictions with both emerging and newly established competition frameworks.
Anti-Trust and Competition
With a proven track record in antitrust and competition law, DFDL has consulted in the development of regulatory regimes across South and Southeast Asia. Our expertise ensures clients navigate these evolving landscapes effectively, providing compliance and strategic guidance in jurisdictions with both emerging and newly established competition frameworks.
Aviation and Logistics
With a proven track record in aviation and logistics law across South and South East Asia, DFDL’s expertise encompasses aircraft and engine leasing, financing, regulatory compliance, and dispute resolution. We also advise on global supply chain logistics, warehousing, and data centers. We collaborate with leading global firms, financiers, and banks to deliver strategic legal solutions tailored to your needs.
Banking and Finance
With extensive expertise in Banking and Finance law, DFDL guides clients through the complexities of the emerging and established markets in South and Southeast Asia. Our team offers strategic advice on corporate banking, project finance, financial regulation, and fintech. We represent a diverse range of clients including domestic and international banks, investors, and development banks.
Compliance and Investigations
With extensive expertise in Compliance and Investigations, DFDL helps clients manage risks and meet regulatory standards across South and Southeast Asia. Our team provides strategic advice on anti-bribery, anti-corruption, data protection, and corporate governance. We assist in conducting internal investigations, developing compliance programs, and ensuring adherence to local and international regulations, leveraging our regional network for cross-border matters.
Corporate Advisory
With 30 years of experience, DFDL’s Corporate Advisory practice provides tailored legal and tax services across Asia’s emerging markets. We assist clients with investment projects, from feasibility to execution, leveraging our regional offices for multijurisdictional matters. Our expertise includes market entry, M&A, and regulatory compliance.
Corporate and M&A
DFDL’s Corporate and M&A team offers legal and tax services across South and Southeast Asia’s regulated sectors. We assist with investment projects, M&A strategies, due diligence, and regulatory compliance. Our regional offices and award-winning tax practice manage complex transactions for multinationals, private equity, financial institutions, banks, venture capital, corporations, family offices, government entities, and high-net-worth individuals, leveraging our regional network for cross-border matters.
Dispute Resolution
DFDL’s Dispute Resolution team offers comprehensive support for clients in Southeast and South Asia. We specialize in handling local and regional commercial, regulatory, and compliance disputes across various sectors, including banking, finance, real estate, construction, energy, infrastructure, employment, and tax.
Employment
DFDL’s Employment practice ensures legally compliant HR documentation and advice, building strong employer-employee foundations. We draft employment agreements, internal regulations, and consultancy contracts, adhering to local laws. Our services include advice on entitlements, working hours, foreign worker restrictions, transfers, terminations, severance, retirement, and dispute resolution.
Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure
DFDL offers specialist legal expertise for energy, natural resources, and infrastructure projects across Southeast and South Asia, providing tailored solutions for governments, financial institutions, project developers, and investors. Our services include renewable energy, oil and gas, and infrastructure development. We advise on project financing, EPC, O&M, and concession agreements, leveraging our regional network and expertise for complex mandates and cross-border matters.
Investment Funds
DFDL’s Investment Funds practice offers private equity services, including fund formation, structuring, and regulatory compliance. We advise fund managers, banks, and investors across Asia in sectors like real estate, technology, and energy, providing tailored solutions for fund management and compliance.
Real Estate and Hospitality
DFDL’s Real Estate and Hospitality team provides comprehensive legal and tax services for all phases of real estate projects across the region. We assist clients including developers, investors, and financiers in various sectors, offering expertise in project finance, construction contracts, lease, commercial, industrial, residential, and mixed-use projects.
Restructuring
As a member of the Global Restructuring and Insolvency Professionals network, DFDL’s restructuring practice provides expert guidance on local and cross-border restructuring, refinancing, and insolvency across Southeast and South Asia. Our firm is experienced in banking, corporate, energy, employment, real estate, insolvency, and tax, offering strategic solutions for debtors, creditors, and distressed entities.
Tax and Transfer Pricing
DFDL provides comprehensive tax and transfer pricing solutions across Southeast and South Asia. Our expertise includes strategic tax planning, advisory on M&A transactions, and regulatory compliance. We support clients in navigating the complex tax regulations of the region, providing practical and innovative solutions to optimize tax efficiency and ensure compliance with both local and international laws.
Technology, Media and Telecoms
DFDL’s TMT practice provides comprehensive legal services for global Big Tech giants and conglomerates and tech startups across South and Southeast Asia. Our regional teams specialize in local and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, licensing, regulatory compliance and dispute resolution in tech, media, and telecom. Our Fintech Practice coordinates closely with our Banking & Financing team to offer expertise in digital banking, payment services, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.
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