Fadjar Widjaksana Kandar

Co-Executive Partner

Experience

Fadjar is a corporate lawyer with more than 28 years of experience and is mainly recognised as a leading Indonesian lawyer in the energy, natural resources and infrastructure sectors, including the telecommunication and technology sector. Fadjar has advised local and multinational companies on various project developments in the energy and natural resources sectors. He has also specifically assisted in project financings as well as acquisition of interest or shares, in infrastructure (including toll road, water and electricity), project finance, corporate, M&As, foreign investments, telecommunication, aviation and shipping.

Career

Fadjar’s career started in 1991 as an associate at Mochtar Karuwin & Komar and then continued at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Singapore office before making partner at Soemadipradja & Taher and founding his own law firm in 2013. His firm, Kandar & Partners, then merged with Roosdiono & Partners in 2018, where he is continuing his private practice to-date. He is often recognized and ranked by various international publications, including by Asialaw Profiles as a Market-leading Lawyer for Energy & Natural Resources, by Asia Business Law Journal, and most recently by Who’s Who Legal as one of the Indonesia’s leading practitioners in Project Finance in 2023.

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Qualifications

Licensed advocate, active member and committee vice-chairman of Indonesian Advocates Association (PERADI RBA)
Bachelor of Laws (S.H.), Parahyangan Catholic University
Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Business and Corporate Law, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Master of Business Administration (MBA) in International Business, Johns Hopkins University
Other professional memberships include: Indonesian Petroleum Association, Indonesian Bar Association, Indonesian Air Law Society, Indonesian Telecommunications Society, and Indonesian Electricity Power Society

Recognitions

ALB Super 50 TMT Lawyers, Asian Legal Business, 2026
Distinguished Practitioner in Energy & Natural Resources, Asialaw Profiles, 2020 - 2024
Notable Practitioner, IFLR1000, 2024
Leading Practitioner in Project Finance, Who’s Who Legal, 2023
Most Highly Regarded in Project Finance, Who's Who Legal, 2022
Indonesia’s Top 100 Lawyers Asia Business Law Journal, 2019
Leading Lawyer in Regulatory & Government, Asialaw Profiles, 2013

Languages

English Indonesian

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Testimonials

“Fadjar Widjaksana Kandar is the managing partner and a key figure… highly responsive, technically excellent and particularly impressive in its dedication to meeting tight, often unreasonable deadlines.”
Asialaw Profiles
2019