Rinjani Indah Lestari

A recognized transactional lawyer who has strong technical capability and a commercially minded approach, Rinjani focuses her practice on corporate and commercial matters, particularly foreign direct investments, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and corporate restructurings across a wide range of industries such as financial services (including banking, private equity, fintech and multi-finance), natural resources, digital payment, crypto trading, manufacturing, automotive, real estate and various industrial sub-sectors.

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She gained a broad array of experience in transactional, regulatory and government relations matters during her tenure at a prominent Indonesian law firm and also the Indonesian office of Jipyong, a leading South Korean law firm, including a major role as in-house counsel and legal representation of a market-leading fintech unicorn company in Asia affiliated to Ant Financial.

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Rinjani regularly advises multinational clients including US, Chinese, Indian and South Korean companies on various aspects of domestic and cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, financings and restructuring transactions. She has extensive and sophisticated transactional experience representing acquirers, target companies and sellers in connection with domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, ranging in size and complexity from multi-million dollars to mid- and small-size transactions, including strategic investments, asset purchases and sales, structured equity, commercial and fundraising transactions. She also counsels clients on the capitalisation and structuring of inbound investments and operations, including branches and subsidiaries, corporate governance and general corporate matters.

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Several notable corporate clients that she has advised throughout her legal career include VISA, JCB Card, Kimberly-Clark, MBK Partners, Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation, Hilton International, Hyundai Motor Indonesia, CJ Foodville Co. Ltd, Shinhan Card, and also prominent fintech companies such as Crowdo, WeShare Finance and Findaya.

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At Foster, Rinjani is frequently involved and regularly leads the assigned teams across different practice groups in all corporate facets of the mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and regulatory licensing for market entry purpose, having advised a diverse range of multinationals in the financial services sector on those matters. Rinjani's work in the financial services sector covers corporate finance, fintech-related minority investments and acquisitions, as well as regulatory issues and compliance support in the payment services, digital lending and crypto trading industries.

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In the fintech space, Rinjani advises Foster's corporate clients ranging from disruptive start-ups and mature and emerging fintech companies, to global financial institutions, crypto trading platforms and some of market-leading payment services and large telco companies, such as XTransfer (China), AirWallex (Australia), BingX (Hong Kong), OPPO (China), JB Financial (Korea) and Paytm (India). She also advises major banks and financial instutions such as Bank of East Asia (China), Industrial Bank Co. Ltd (China) and Global Innovation Find (United Kingdom) on strategic corporate finance matters.

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Clients value Rinjani’s ability to provide practical guidance with respect to complex acquisitions, investment, financing and restructuring concepts in a manner that is understandable and approachable, and to quickly grasp the commercial dynamics and navigate a constructive path forward.

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