Emerson Law Firm is a multi-practice law firm in Indonesia, providing
sophisticated legal counsel to clients across a wide range of industries. Emerson Law Firm is distinguished by its commitment to legal excellence, strategic insight, and unwavering adherence to the highest professional and ethical standards.
Established to respond to the evolving demands of complex legal and commercial environments, Emerson Law Firm delivers advice that is both technically rigorous and commercially astute. Our lawyers combine deep legal expertise with a nuanced understanding of business, regulation, and local practice, enabling clients to navigate regulatory complexity, manage risk, and achieve sustainable outcomes.
Emerson Law Firm advises on a comprehensive range of practice areas, with particular strength in criminal and civil litigation, constitutional litigation, commercial litigation, and general corporate. Our capabilities extend to dispute resolution, transactional and contractual advisory, legal due diligence, banking and finance, leasing, construction and infrastructure, plantation, debt restructuring and insolvency, employment law, property and agrarian law, maritime law, family law, as well as industry and trade regulation.
Emerson Law Firm’s objective is to be a trusted legal adviser of choice in
Indonesia. We measure our success not only by the results we achieve, but by the enduring relationships we build. Integrity, professionalism, and excellence remain the foundation of our practice and define our standing within the legal communities
Emerson Law Firm is a multi-practice law firm in Indonesia, providing
sophisticated legal counsel to clients across a wide range of industries. Emerson Law Firm is distinguished by its commitment to legal excellence, strategic insight, and unwavering adherence to the highest professional and ethical standards.
Established to respond to the evolving demands of complex legal and commercial environments, Emerson Law Firm delivers advice that is both technically rigorous and commercially astute. Our lawyers combine deep legal expertise with a nuanced understanding of business, regulation, and local practice, enabling clients to navigate regulatory complexity, manage risk, and achieve sustainable outcomes.
Emerson Law Firm advises on a comprehensive range of practice areas, with particular strength in criminal and civil litigation, constitutional litigation, commercial litigation, and general corporate. Our capabilities extend to dispute resolution, transactional and contractual advisory, legal due diligence, banking and finance, leasing, construction and infrastructure, plantation, debt restructuring and insolvency, employment law, property and agrarian law, maritime law, family
law, as well as industry and trade regulation.
Emerson Law Firm’s objective is to be a trusted legal adviser of choice in
Indonesia. We measure our success not only by the results we achieve, but by the enduring relationships we build. Integrity, professionalism, and excellence remain the foundation of our practice and define our standing within the legal communities
Criminal Litigation
What distinguishes Emerson Law Firm is our
strategic foresight and calculated execution. We
have successfully represented clients across a
broad spectrum of criminal cases, including
fraud, embezzlement, corruption, financial
crimes, and regulatory violations. Drawing on
extensive courtroom experience and a
comprehensive understanding of criminal law
and procedure, we develop defense strategies
that are precise, proactive, and tailored to the
unique circumstances of each case.
Civil Litigation
Civil disputes generally involve legal conflicts between individuals or business entities concerning private legal relationships. These disputes often stem from breaches of contract, unlawful acts, or failures to perform legal obligations, giving rise to civil liability and the right of the injured party to seek compensation for financial losses and damages.
Our firm is supported by a team of experienced and highly skilled advocates
who understand the complexities of modern business environments.
Commercial Litigation
We focus on representing corporations, entrepreneurs, and professionals in a wide range of commercial disputes, including high-value and complex business litigation.
We provide comprehensive legal representation at every stage of the litigation process, from strategic negotiations and
dispute resolution efforts to courtroom advocacy and enforcement of judgments. With a disciplined, results-oriented approach, we are committed to safeguarding our clients’ rights, protecting their commercial interests, and achieving the most effective legal outcomes.
Constitutional Litigation
We represent individuals and corporate clients in a wide range of disputes, including policy-related disputes and constitutional reviews before the Constitutional Court.With extensive experience and a thorough command of Indonesia’s constitutional framework, our legal team delivers clear, strategic, and effective solutions. We work closely with our clients to manage complex bureaucratic processes, anticipate regulatory risks, and pursue remedies with precision and confidence, ensuring that every legal step is aligned with their broader objectives.
Administrative Litigation
Administrative Law stands at the heart of the relationship between citizens,
businesses, and the state. Every government decision, whether related to
licensing, regulatory policies, or the exercise of public authority, can have farreaching legal and commercial consequences. Navigating this landscape requires not only a deep understanding of the law but also strategic insight into how public institutions operate. Our Administrative Litigation practice is
dedicated to safeguarding our clients’ rights and interests in matters involving
government actions and public regulations.
Debt restructuring & Insolvency
As a firm with proven experience advising both debtors and creditors, we bring
a comprehensive and balanced perspective to every restructuring and insolvency matter. Our team understands not only the legal framework, but also the commercial realities that drive sustainable financial recovery. We design and execute protection strategies that include voting analysis, asset recovery planning, and enforcement mechanisms, ensuring outcomes that are both legally sound and commercially effective, while safeguarding our clients’ rights, reputation, and long-term interests.
Banking & Finance
In an industry shaped by constant regulatory change and market innovation, we stand as a trusted legal partner, guiding clients with clarity, precision, and strategic foresight. We provide comprehensive legal services across the full spectrum of financial law. Our lawyers are experienced in navigating both conventional and complex financial
arrangements, ensuring that each transaction is legally sound, commercially viable, and aligned with our clients’ long-term objectives.
Employment
We provide comprehensive legal support across the full spectrum of employment matters, from day-to-day advisory work to complex dispute resolution. Our team has extensive experience assisting both local and multinational companies across diverse industries, offering strategic guidance on employment contracts, compensation and benefits structures, internal policies, company regulations, and workforce governance. In employment disputes, we have represented employers in litigation, mediation, and other forms of dispute resolution, always with a focus on efficiency, risk management, and long-term business continuity.
Plantation
Our team has extensive experience in conducting legal due diligence for plantation companies, advising on land asset including share acquisitions, structuring land financing, and assisting with land procurement, as well as resolving disputes arising from lease arrangements and mortgage imposition.
Through a strategic and solution-oriented approach, we also help clients safeguard their investments and achieve long-term certainty in their plantation ventures.
Real Estate
In Real Estate, our practice delivers comprehensive, end-to-end legal solutions across the full spectrum of land and property matters, including advising clients on complex agrarian issues as well as real estate
transactions, developments, and disputes, combining deep industry insight with a strong commercial understanding of property-related regulations in Indonesia. Through a strategic and solution-oriented approach, we help clients safeguard their investments and achieve long-term certainty in their real estate ventures.
Maritime
We provide comprehensive legal services across the full spectrum of shipping and maritime matters, guiding clients through complex challenges in both Indonesian and international waters. Our expertise covers vessel arrest and enforcement actions, cargo claims, liability disputes, ship mortgages and hypothecs, charter party disputes, vessel collisions, and marine insurance matters. With a deep understanding of maritime operations and commercial realities, Our Firm is a trusted legal partner for navigating the ever-evolving maritime landscape.
General Corporate
Our General Corporate practice is built to support businesses at every stage of
the corporate journey. We provide comprehensive and practical legal services across a broad range of corporate matters, helping companies navigate complexity, manage risk, and unlock growth opportunities. With a deep understanding of Indonesia’s regulatory environment and commercial realities, we deliver tailored legal solutions aligned with our clients’ strategic and operational objectives.
Criminal Litigation
What distinguishes Emerson Law Firm is our
strategic foresight and calculated execution. We
have successfully represented clients across a
broad spectrum of criminal cases, including
fraud, embezzlement, corruption, financial
crimes, and regulatory violations. Drawing on
extensive courtroom experience and a
comprehensive understanding of criminal law
and procedure, we develop defense strategies
that are precise, proactive, and tailored to the
unique circumstances of each case.
Civil Litigation
Civil disputes generally involve legal conflicts between individuals or business entities concerning private legal relationships. These disputes often stem from breaches of contract, unlawful acts, or failures to perform legal obligations, giving rise to civil liability and the right of the injured party to seek compensation for financial losses and damages.
Our firm is supported by a team of experienced and highly skilled advocates
who understand the complexities of modern business environments.
Commercial Litigation
We focus on representing corporations, entrepreneurs, and professionals in a wide range of commercial disputes, including high-value and complex business litigation.
We provide comprehensive legal representation at every stage of the litigation process, from strategic negotiations and
dispute resolution efforts to courtroom advocacy and enforcement of judgments. With a disciplined, results-oriented approach, we are committed to safeguarding our clients’ rights, protecting their commercial interests, and achieving the most effective legal outcomes.
Constitutional Litigation
We represent individuals and corporate clients in a wide range of disputes, including policy-related disputes and constitutional reviews before the Constitutional Court.With extensive experience and a thorough command of Indonesia’s constitutional framework, our legal team delivers clear, strategic, and effective solutions. We work closely with our clients to manage complex bureaucratic processes, anticipate regulatory risks, and pursue remedies with precision and confidence, ensuring that every legal step is aligned with their broader objectives.
Administrative Litigation
Administrative Law stands at the heart of the relationship between citizens,
businesses, and the state. Every government decision, whether related to
licensing, regulatory policies, or the exercise of public authority, can have farreaching legal and commercial consequences. Navigating this landscape requires not only a deep understanding of the law but also strategic insight into how public institutions operate. Our Administrative Litigation practice is
dedicated to safeguarding our clients’ rights and interests in matters involving
government actions and public regulations.
Debt restructuring & Insolvency
As a firm with proven experience advising both debtors and creditors, we bring
a comprehensive and balanced perspective to every restructuring and insolvency matter. Our team understands not only the legal framework, but also the commercial realities that drive sustainable financial recovery. We design and execute protection strategies that include voting analysis, asset recovery planning, and enforcement mechanisms, ensuring outcomes that are both legally sound and commercially effective, while safeguarding our clients’ rights, reputation, and long-term interests.
Banking & Finance
In an industry shaped by constant regulatory change and market innovation, we stand as a trusted legal partner, guiding clients with clarity, precision, and strategic foresight. We provide comprehensive legal services across the full spectrum of financial law. Our lawyers are experienced in navigating both conventional and complex financial
arrangements, ensuring that each transaction is legally sound, commercially viable, and aligned with our clients’ long-term objectives.
Employment
We provide comprehensive legal support across the full spectrum of employment matters, from day-to-day advisory work to complex dispute resolution. Our team has extensive experience assisting both local and multinational companies across diverse industries, offering strategic guidance on employment contracts, compensation and benefits structures, internal policies, company regulations, and workforce governance. In employment disputes, we have represented employers in litigation, mediation, and other forms of dispute resolution, always with a focus on efficiency, risk management, and long-term business continuity.
Plantation
Our team has extensive experience in conducting legal due diligence for plantation companies, advising on land asset including share acquisitions, structuring land financing, and assisting with land procurement, as well as resolving disputes arising from lease arrangements and mortgage imposition.
Through a strategic and solution-oriented approach, we also help clients safeguard their investments and achieve long-term certainty in their plantation ventures.
Real Estate
In Real Estate, our practice delivers comprehensive, end-to-end legal solutions across the full spectrum of land and property matters, including advising clients on complex agrarian issues as well as real estate
transactions, developments, and disputes, combining deep industry insight with a strong commercial understanding of property-related regulations in Indonesia. Through a strategic and solution-oriented approach, we help clients safeguard their investments and achieve long-term certainty in their real estate ventures.
Maritime
We provide comprehensive legal services across the full spectrum of shipping and maritime matters, guiding clients through complex challenges in both Indonesian and international waters. Our expertise covers vessel arrest and enforcement actions, cargo claims, liability disputes, ship mortgages and hypothecs, charter party disputes, vessel collisions, and marine insurance matters. With a deep understanding of maritime operations and commercial realities, Our Firm is a trusted legal partner for navigating the ever-evolving maritime landscape.
General Corporate
Our General Corporate practice is built to support businesses at every stage of
the corporate journey. We provide comprehensive and practical legal services across a broad range of corporate matters, helping companies navigate complexity, manage risk, and unlock growth opportunities. With a deep understanding of Indonesia’s regulatory environment and commercial realities, we deliver tailored legal solutions aligned with our clients’ strategic and operational objectives.
RUBHEN EMERSON
Rubhen earned his law degree from Parahyangan Catholic University, and He paved his career in 2011 when he joined a legal aid institution in Bandung. Prior to founding Emerson Law Firm, Rubhen spent more than twelve years as a Senior Lawyer at a prominent law firm in Indonesia. That has allowed him to embrace the complexity of cases and transactions that he handles whilst considering the needs and characteristics of his clients.
A seasoned litigator with more than a decade of experience, Rubhen has comprehensive skills to give extremely well-considered legal advice by involving remarkable levels of risk management. His practice extends across the full range of procedures, advising and representing clients in criminal, civil, commercial, constitutional, and administrative disputes through trial before the courts and enforcement.
During his career, he has also handled many high-profile cases within a wide array of sectors, such as corruption, political party disputes, shareholder disputes, maritime, banking, finance, employment as well as land acquisition, including advising and representing high net-worth individuals, state-owned enterprises, national companies, as well as multi-national companies.
RUBHEN EMERSON
Rubhen earned his law degree from Parahyangan Catholic University, and He paved his career in 2011 when he joined a legal aid institution in Bandung. Prior to founding Emerson Law Firm, Rubhen spent more than twelve years as a Senior Lawyer at a prominent law firm in Indonesia. That has allowed him to embrace the complexity of cases and transactions that he handles whilst considering the needs and characteristics of his clients.
A seasoned litigator with more than a decade of experience, Rubhen has comprehensive skills to give extremely well-considered legal advice by involving remarkable levels of risk management. His practice extends across the full range of procedures, advising and representing clients in criminal, civil, commercial, constitutional, and administrative disputes through trial before the courts and enforcement.
During his career, he has also handled many high-profile cases within a wide array of sectors, such as corruption, political party disputes, shareholder disputes, maritime, banking, finance, employment as well as land acquisition, including advising and representing high net-worth individuals, state-owned enterprises, national companies, as well as multi-national companies.
ESTER THERESIA EMELYN PASARIBU
Ester graduated from Maranatha University, majoring in Business Law. During her academic journey, she actively participated in various legal competitions and was deeply involved in law student debate organizations, experiences that sharpened her analytical thinking, advocacy skills, and ability to approach legal issues from multiple perspectives.
Prior to joining Emerson, Ester spent several years working at a Notary Office in Batam, where she gained extensive hands-on experience in corporate documentation and land-related matters. This early exposure to practical legal work provided her with a strong understanding of regulatory procedures, transactional structures, and the commercial realities faced by businesses and property owners alike.
At Emerson Law Firm, Ester brings a thoughtful, commercially grounded approach to every
engagement, supporting clients across a wide range of corporate and property-related
transactions. She has been involved in a broad spectrum of corporate and transactional matters, including legal due diligence, corporate restructuring, and legal advisory services. Her practical insight, attention to detail, and sound commercial judgment have made her a reliable and trusted advisor to clients navigating complex corporate and agrarian issues.
Ester graduated from Maranatha University, majoring in Business Law. During her academic journey, she actively participated in various legal competitions and was deeply involved in law student debate organizations, experiences that sharpened her analytical thinking, advocacy skills, and ability to approach legal issues from multiple perspectives.
Prior to joining Emerson, Ester spent several years working at a Notary Office in Batam, where she gained extensive hands-on experience in corporate documentation and land-related matters. This early exposure to practical legal work provided her with a strong understanding of regulatory procedures, transactional structures, and the commercial realities faced by businesses and property owners alike.
At Emerson Law Firm, Ester brings a thoughtful, commercially grounded approach to every engagement, supporting clients across a wide range of corporate and property-related transactions. She has been involved in a broad spectrum of corporate and transactional matters, including legal due diligence, corporate restructuring, and legal advisory services. Her practical insight, attention to detail, and sound commercial judgment have made her a reliable and trusted advisor to clients navigating complex corporate and agrarian issues.
EDWINA AYU DIANINGTYAS
Edwina graduated from University of Diponegoro, majoring in Communication Science. At
Emerson Law Firm, she has a very important role in developing the business and bringing
innovation to the management of Emerson Law Firm in order to deliver the best standard of
services for the clients.
Edwina graduated from University of Diponegoro, majoring in Communication Science. At
Emerson Law Firm, she has a very important role in developing the business and bringing
innovation to the management of Emerson Law Firm in order to deliver the best standard ofservices for the clients.
Office :
Indonesia Stock Exchange Building
Tower 1 Level 3 Suite 304 SCBD
Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav.52-53
Jakarta Selatan 12190, Indonesia
Contact : Office Hours :
Phone : +62 21 50106260 / Ext. 2316 Mon-Fri : 09.00-18.00
Email : info@emersonlawyers.com Sat-Sun : Closed
Social : @emersonlawyers
Copyright © 2026. Emerson. All rights reserved.
Office :
Indonesia Stock Exchange Building
Tower 1 Level 3 Suite 304 SCBD
Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav.52-53
Jakarta Selatan 12190, Indonesia
Contact :
Phone : +62 21 50106260 / Ext. 2316
Email : info@emersonlawyers.com
Social : @emersonlawyers
Office Hours :
Mon-Fri : 09.00-18.00
Email : Sat-Sun : Closed
Copyright © 2026. Emerson. All rights reserved.