Veby is an Associate in the firm's Corporate, Commercial and Investment Practice Group. She is a regulatory specialist, advising a wide range of foreign investors from China and Europe on their market entry to Indonesia, including structuring their inbound investments, company set up, joint ventures and shareholders agreements, and procurement of their business licensing. This includes acquisition transactions to facilitate the investors' expansion into Indonesia by acquiring existing domestic companies.
Veby has built-up a well-rounded practice with a unique fusion of investment, corporate, transactional, employment and intellectual property capabilities. She successfully assisted a US-based non-profit organization in appealing the rejection of its trademark application before the Indonesian IP Office where the decision went in favor of her client that the appeal was granted, and the trademark was registered. She was involved in the overall strategizing, drafting, and submission of the appeal. She also successfully assisted a France-based global construction and engineering firm (Egis) in obtaining a construction service business licensing in Indonesia where she was in charge of the preparation of mandatory documents, regulatory compliance review, and the overall license application submission process.
As a transactional lawyer, Veby has led various legal due diligence mandates, including preparation and negotiation of transaction documents, and advised on employment matters, in relation to acquisition-related matters across a wide array of industries, such as mining, healthcare, construction, technology, sport and entertainment.
Her noteworthy experience includes advising and leading the legal due diligence for a global supplier of lithium-ion battery materials in connection with the acquisition of Indonesian subsidiaries of a Chinese-based mining company in North Konawe, Southeast Sulawesi Province, including preparing the transaction documents. She also counseled a subsidiary of Indonesia’s largest private energy company on the acquisition of a recreational property and high-tech driving range in Bandung.
Among her recent employment work, Veby drafted employment agreements and company regulations for a Singapore-based artificial intelligence company and a France-based multinational pharmaceutical company to ensure their compliance with manpower regulations in Indonesia.