Award Winning Legal and Tax Strategies
Multi-jurisdictional
With a strong presence across Southeast and South Asia, DFDL provides you with unrivaled local insights, ensuring you navigate complex legal and tax landscapes with confidence.
Multi-disciplinary
Benefit from our multi-disciplinary approach and industry-specific expertise. We offer bespoke solutions that address your unique challenges and opportunities.
A Multi-cultural Team
Solutions
Antitrust and Competition
With a proven track record in antitrust and competition law, DFDL has consulted in the development of regulatory regimes across South and Southeast Asia. Our expertise ensures clients navigate these evolving landscapes effectively, providing compliance and strategic guidance in jurisdictions with both emerging and newly established competition frameworks.
Aviation and Logistics
In the dynamic world of aviation and logistics, DFDL stands as your legal partner in South and Southeast Asia. We offer comprehensive expertise, from aircraft and engine leasing and financing to global supply chain logistics and data center development. Our collaborative approach involves working closely with you, as well as leading global firms, financiers, and banks, to develop and implement tailored legal strategies that drive your success.
Banking and Finance
DFDL provides expert legal counsel on banking and finance matters across the dynamic markets of South and Southeast Asia. We navigate the complexities of both emerging and established economies, offering strategic advice on corporate banking, project finance, financial services regulation, and fintech. Our clients include a diverse range of domestic and international banks, financial institutions, development banks, and investors.
Compliance and Investigations
With extensive expertise in Compliance and Investigations, DFDL helps clients manage risks and meet regulatory standards across South and Southeast Asia. Our team provides strategic advice on anti-bribery, anti-corruption, data protection, and corporate governance. We assist in conducting internal investigations, developing compliance programs, and ensuring adherence to local and international regulations, leveraging our regional network for cross-border matters.
Corporate Advisory
Leveraging 30 years of experience across Asia’s emerging markets, DFDL’s Corporate Advisory practice provides tailored transactional and strategic advisory services to help its clients cover the full lifecycle of cross-border investments.
Corporate and M&A
DFDL's M&A team offers deep regional expertise in regulated sectors like finance, tech, telecoms, manufacturing, education, renewables, and retail. We're strategic partners, providing solutions and risk assessment based on extensive emerging market experience. Our support covers all transaction stages, from target identification and strategy to due diligence, regulatory advice, deal structuring, and closing. Our award-winning tax practice creates optimized multi-jurisdictional structures. We represent diverse clients—PE funds, financial institutions, corporations, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals—on complex transactions. Consistently ranked by Chambers and Legal 500, our team is a recognized leader.
Dispute Resolution
DFDL's Dispute Resolution practice addresses the increasing commercial disputes arising from rapid investment growth in the region. Our regional market understanding uniquely positions us to help clients navigate and overcome contentious challenges. We handle both conventional and alternative dispute resolution. Our tailored services cover diverse areas including corporate, regulatory compliance, banking, finance, real estate, restructuring and insolvency, energy, infrastructure, employment, and tax.
Employment
DFDL’s Employment practice ensures legally compliant HR documentation and advice, building strong employer-employee foundations. We draft employment agreements, internal regulations, and consultancy contracts, adhering to local laws. Our services include advice on entitlements, working hours, foreign worker restrictions, transfers, terminations, severance, retirement, and dispute resolution.
Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure
DFDL's Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure practice guides clients through Southeast and South Asia's booming project landscape. We advise governments, financial institutions, developers, and investors on project development, financing, and acquisitions, contributing to nationally significant projects. Our extensive experience spans innovative, landmark energy, natural resources, and infrastructure projects. Since 1994, we have been committed to providing high-quality and tailored legal services to our clients in the energy and infrastructure sector.
Investment Funds
DFDL’s Investment Funds practice offers private equity services, including fund formation, structuring, and regulatory compliance. We advise fund managers, banks, and investors across Asia in sectors like real estate, technology, and energy, providing tailored solutions for fund management and compliance.
Real Estate and Hospitality
DFDL's Real Estate and Hospitality team provides comprehensive legal and tax services for all phases of real estate projects across the region. We assist clients including developers, investors, and financiers in various sectors, offering expertise in project finance, construction contracts, lease, commercial, industrial, residential, and mixed-use projects.
Restructuring
As a member of the Global Restructuring and Insolvency Professionals network, DFDL’s restructuring practice provides expert guidance on local and cross-border restructuring, refinancing, and insolvency across Southeast and South Asia. Our firm is experienced in banking, corporate, energy, employment, real estate, insolvency, and tax, offering strategic solutions for debtors, creditors, and distressed entities.
Tax and Transfer Pricing
DFDL provides comprehensive tax and transfer pricing solutions across Southeast and South Asia. Our expertise includes strategic tax planning, advisory on M&A transactions, and regulatory compliance. We support clients in navigating the complex tax regulations of the region, providing practical and innovative solutions to optimize tax efficiency and ensure compliance with both local and international laws.
Technology, Media and Telecoms
DFDL’s TMT practice provides comprehensive legal services for global Big Tech giants and conglomerates and tech startups across South and Southeast Asia. Our regional teams specialize in local and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, licensing, regulatory compliance and dispute resolution in tech, media, and telecom. Our Fintech Practice coordinates closely with our Banking & Financing team to offer expertise in digital banking, payment services, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.
Antitrust and Competition
With a proven track record in antitrust and competition law, DFDL has consulted in the development of regulatory regimes across South and Southeast Asia. Our expertise ensures clients navigate these evolving landscapes effectively, providing compliance and strategic guidance in jurisdictions with both emerging and newly established competition frameworks.
Antitrust and Competition
With a proven track record in antitrust and competition law, DFDL has consulted in the development of regulatory regimes across South and Southeast Asia. Our expertise ensures clients navigate these evolving landscapes effectively, providing compliance and strategic guidance in jurisdictions with both emerging and newly established competition frameworks.
Aviation and Logistics
In the dynamic world of aviation and logistics, DFDL stands as your legal partner in South and Southeast Asia. We offer comprehensive expertise, from aircraft and engine leasing and financing to global supply chain logistics and data center development. Our collaborative approach involves working closely with you, as well as leading global firms, financiers, and banks, to develop and implement tailored legal strategies that drive your success.
Banking and Finance
DFDL provides expert legal counsel on banking and finance matters across the dynamic markets of South and Southeast Asia. We navigate the complexities of both emerging and established economies, offering strategic advice on corporate banking, project finance, financial services regulation, and fintech. Our clients include a diverse range of domestic and international banks, financial institutions, development banks, and investors.
Compliance and Investigations
With extensive expertise in Compliance and Investigations, DFDL helps clients manage risks and meet regulatory standards across South and Southeast Asia. Our team provides strategic advice on anti-bribery, anti-corruption, data protection, and corporate governance. We assist in conducting internal investigations, developing compliance programs, and ensuring adherence to local and international regulations, leveraging our regional network for cross-border matters.
Corporate Advisory
Leveraging 30 years of experience across Asia’s emerging markets, DFDL’s Corporate Advisory practice provides tailored transactional and strategic advisory services to help its clients cover the full lifecycle of cross-border investments.
Corporate and M&A
DFDL’s M&A team offers deep regional expertise in regulated sectors like finance, tech, telecoms, manufacturing, education, renewables, and retail. We’re strategic partners, providing solutions and risk assessment based on extensive emerging market experience. Our support covers all transaction stages, from target identification and strategy to due diligence, regulatory advice, deal structuring, and closing. Our award-winning tax practice creates optimized multi-jurisdictional structures. We represent diverse clients—PE funds, financial institutions, corporations, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals—on complex transactions. Consistently ranked by Chambers and Legal 500, our team is a recognized leader.
Dispute Resolution
DFDL’s Dispute Resolution practice addresses the increasing commercial disputes arising from rapid investment growth in the region. Our regional market understanding uniquely positions us to help clients navigate and overcome contentious challenges. We handle both conventional and alternative dispute resolution. Our tailored services cover diverse areas including corporate, regulatory compliance, banking, finance, real estate, restructuring and insolvency, energy, infrastructure, employment, and tax.
Employment
DFDL’s Employment practice ensures legally compliant HR documentation and advice, building strong employer-employee foundations. We draft employment agreements, internal regulations, and consultancy contracts, adhering to local laws. Our services include advice on entitlements, working hours, foreign worker restrictions, transfers, terminations, severance, retirement, and dispute resolution.
Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure
DFDL’s Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure practice guides clients through Southeast and South Asia’s booming project landscape. We advise governments, financial institutions, developers, and investors on project development, financing, and acquisitions, contributing to nationally significant projects. Our extensive experience spans innovative, landmark energy, natural resources, and infrastructure projects. Since 1994, we have been committed to providing high-quality and tailored legal services to our clients in the energy and infrastructure sector.
Investment Funds
DFDL’s Investment Funds practice offers private equity services, including fund formation, structuring, and regulatory compliance. We advise fund managers, banks, and investors across Asia in sectors like real estate, technology, and energy, providing tailored solutions for fund management and compliance.
Real Estate and Hospitality
DFDL’s Real Estate and Hospitality team provides comprehensive legal and tax services for all phases of real estate projects across the region. We assist clients including developers, investors, and financiers in various sectors, offering expertise in project finance, construction contracts, lease, commercial, industrial, residential, and mixed-use projects.
Restructuring
As a member of the Global Restructuring and Insolvency Professionals network, DFDL’s restructuring practice provides expert guidance on local and cross-border restructuring, refinancing, and insolvency across Southeast and South Asia. Our firm is experienced in banking, corporate, energy, employment, real estate, insolvency, and tax, offering strategic solutions for debtors, creditors, and distressed entities.
Tax and Transfer Pricing
DFDL provides comprehensive tax and transfer pricing solutions across Southeast and South Asia. Our expertise includes strategic tax planning, advisory on M&A transactions, and regulatory compliance. We support clients in navigating the complex tax regulations of the region, providing practical and innovative solutions to optimize tax efficiency and ensure compliance with both local and international laws.
Technology, Media and Telecoms
DFDL’s TMT practice provides comprehensive legal services for global Big Tech giants and conglomerates and tech startups across South and Southeast Asia. Our regional teams specialize in local and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, licensing, regulatory compliance and dispute resolution in tech, media, and telecom. Our Fintech Practice coordinates closely with our Banking & Financing team to offer expertise in digital banking, payment services, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.
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