Member Profiles

Fredrik Jacob Pinakunary is the founder and partner of Fredrik J Pinakunary Law Offices. Fredrik is a strong litigator who has been practicing law for more than 25 years, focusing mainly on Civil and Commercial Litigation. Before establishing Fredrik J Pinakunary Law Offices, Fredrik had established an outstanding reputation as a lawyer for careful preparation, attention to detail, and zealous advocacy in the interests of his clients. Fredrik is heavily involved in several high-profile cases and has a distinguished winning story in defending many large national and international companies/institutions in the Indonesian courts. Cases handled by Fredrik included TIME INC Asia against former President Soeharto. In addition, Fredrik represented multinational companies in various civil lawsuits in Indonesian courts, such as EXXON Mobile, ConocoPhillips, Total E&P, and RIO TINTO p.l.c. Ingersoll Rand. After establishing Fredrik J Pinakunary Law Offices, Fredrik continued the trust he had built. He remained trusted by multinational companies and prominent law firms to handle cases their clients faced in Indonesia. The most recent case handled by Fredrik is the infamous Bharada E case. The case is about the murder of one of the Police Officers by his Subordinates and Supervisor. Fredrik is one of the attorneys defending Bharada E in the South Jakarta District Court, and the result was Bharada E gets the lightest sentence at only 1,5 years for this murder case, in contrast with other Defendants who get life sentence and years in prison. In the civil case, Fredrik is advising and representing PTTEP Australasia and PTTEP in the civil claim filed by the Government of Indonesia related to the pollution and environmental damage in the Timor Sea at the Central Jakarta District Court, in this case, PTTEP Australasia and PTTEP is sued for almost 2 billion dollars. In addition to civil and criminal cases, Fredrik also helped the community represent the Judicial Review to the Constitutional Court regarding the age limit of presidential and vice-presidential candidates. In addition to the above cases, Fredrik handle soil and gas, aviation, environment, criminal, labor, and industrial relations cases. In aviation, Fredrik has experience handling civil lawsuits in Indonesian courts for airline companies such as Etihad Airways, Mandala Airlines, and Air Asia. Fredrik highly values Integrity and applies it in his business. Besides Integrity, he values Knowledge and Reliability in doing his work. Besides practicing as a lawyer, Fredrik is also active in non-profit organizations such as the Indonesia Christian Legal Society, where he also serves as the Chairman from 2017 until 2023. Fredrik has been invited to teach for several workshops organized by universities and government institutions. He has been selected out of many litigation lawyers in Jakarta and requested by the Judicial Independence Assessment and Advocacy Institute (Lembaga Kajian Advokasi untuk Independensi Peradilan) to share his experiences and opinions in connection with the establishment of the Indonesian Judges Code of Conduct. He holds the PERADI license and is one of its active members.

Mohamed Idwan (‘Kiki’) Ganie is the Managing Partner of Lubis Ganie Surowidjojo (LGS). He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Indonesia and holds a PhD in Law from the University of Hamburg. Dr. Ganie is a Chairman of the Association of Indonesian Anti-Trust Lawyers, a member of the Regional Panel of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), and a fellow (FSIarb) of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators.

She holds a law degree with excellent grade from Padjadjaran University, Bandung (1997). She has practiced as lawyer since 1998 with joined to several well known law firms and multi private companies before established Kartika Hermawan & Partners Law Firm in 2005. Her expertise in Business & Commercial; Investment & Foreigner Laws; Corporate matters; Labor & Employment; Marriage & Family; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Insolvency & Bankruptcy; Intellectual Property Rights. Litigation in general.

As the co-founder of the firm, Risti holds broad expertise in the IP area with over 20 years of experience in providing assistance for both Indonesian and foreign clients in a variety of IP projects. Risti leads the IP Prosecution Team and oversees the Commercial IP practice group. Admitted as IP Consultant in 2006, Risti has handled prosecution of trademarks and geographical indications, industrial designs, copyright and patent and enforcement of IP rights as well as led IP commercial projects. One example, she is the person behind the successful first-ever exemption issued by the Ministry of Trade for a multinational ready-to-assemble furniture manufacturer and distributor. Risti has published a number of IP-related articles, including on Bloomberg Law and Franchise Law Review. She spoke on a number various seminars on IP-related topics and is actively involved in providing input in law making process in Indonesia.

Karen Millls, J.D., FCIArb., FHKIArb., FSIArb.is a chartered arbitrator recognized as one of the leading arbitrators in Asia according to every publication and survey published. She sits as arbitrator in Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and the US and is also on the panel of arbitrators of institutions in the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Korea, New Zealand, ICDR in the US, CACD in India and the online Domain Name Dispute Panel of ADNDRC, Hong Kong, Beijing and Seoul. As arbitrator, Ms. Mills has sat in cases involving oil, gas, mining, power, insurance, finance, tax, commercial real estate, and various matters of general investment and trade. As counsel she often acts as lead counsel for the Indonesian Government in investor-state disputes, including successfully winning a multi-billion dollar mining dispute and successfully dismissing one ICSID claim for lack of jurisdiction, and another multilateral treaty case on the merits. She also represents a number of state-owned companies and acts for many multinational and local companies in arbitration as well as in structuring transactions in all sectors. Ms. Mills founded and Co- Chairs the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Indonesia Chapter, is a founding member and serves on the Executive Board of ArbitralWomen International, and advises various other institutions and publications on dispute resolution matters. She teaches arbitration and ADR in Indonesia and throughout the region, coaches moot teams for three Indonesian Universities, and has published over 150 papers and chapters in professional journals and textbooks.