Rahayu Hoed

Rahayu Ningsih Hoed has been with Makarim & Taira S for more than 30 years rendering her the most senior partner at the firm. She has extensive experience in almost every aspect of legal practice due to her background as journalist and paralegal and is a widely recognized authority on corporate and M&A transactions, project financing, arbitration, and employment. Praise for Rahayu’s advice from clients include: “incredible, extremely well-considered advice”, “ensuring that deals always involve “remarkable levels of risk management”.

Rahayu has represented many major multinational companies such as Sumitomo Corporation, Halliburton, Marubeni Corporation, Samsung, Hong Leong, Sembcorp and more and embassies such as British Embassy and Australian Embassy. Her achievements include project financing for the 1,320MW large capacity Tanjung Jati B power plant and its expansions of 1,320 MW expansion and further 2000 MW expansion, as well as the 660 MW and its 1000 MW expansion, early retirement of major coal fired power plants, and Cirebon Power Plant of 600 MW, major land acquisitions for infrastructure and mining projects, and highly sensitive mass terminations of employees. Rahayu also has acted as an expert of Indonesian law issues several times in various court, among others, at the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, the High Court of the Hong Kong Special Administration Region, the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, Louisiana, the High Court of the Republic of Singapore, the South Jakarta District Court and Family Court in London.

Her expertise is recognized in several legal directories such as an A-list lawyers by the ABLJ’s Top 100 Lawyers in Indonesia, as an ABLJ’s Top 20 Top Women Lawyers Across Asia 2021, Chambers and Partners as a Key Individual for Dispute Resolutions and Real Estate and Legal 500 as a Leading Individual for Corporate and M&A, Employment, Projects and Energy and Real Estate and recently included her in the Hall of Fame. Asialaw Profiles has also selected her as Elite Practioner, while IFLR1000 has also ranked her Highly Regarded Lawyer.