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Our Industry Expertise

Eliot & Luther helps all businesses not only reach, but exceed their goals. Our experience helps us lay out a strategy that perfectly fits our clients. This collaboration is essential for the successful transition from strategy, to plan, to action.

Financial Services

Key People: Joel Hogarth & Kirk Evans

Joel is a former Group CEO of an Indonesian financial services group comprising of life insurance, general insurance, securities, asset management, multifinance and banking. He has strong operational experience in the financial services sector, and has represented many financial services clients as a lawyer and corporate finance advisor.

Kirk also has experience running the Indonesian operations of environmental and commodity funds.


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Energy and Sustainability

Key Person: Kirk Evans

Kirk has over 30 years' experience in the energy and sustainability sectors, having headed up the Indonesia offices of clean energy focused private equity fund, Syndicatum. Kirk is currently acting as advisor to an environmental developer of sustainable peatland for carbon capture, and a plastic to energy joint venture.

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Aviation

Key People: Joel Hogarth

Joel has acted for lease finance companies in bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings, including the repossession of two aircraft for International Lease Finance Corporation in the bankruptcy of Batavia Air.

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Retail and E-commerce

Key Person: Richard Hogarth

Richard has over 30 years' experience in the retail industry, with high profile directorships comprising of Merchandising Director for electronics retailer Tandy Radio Shack in the UK, which was acquired by Carphone Warehouse; Guilbert Niceday, which was acquired by Staples Inc.; and online auction site QXL.com, which was acquired by ebay.com. 

On the financial side, Joel has acted for investors on a number of major tech players, including Gojek, Tokopedia and Traveloka and on the corporate restructuring of handphone retailer Trikomsel.


Plantations

Key People: Howard Sargeant & Joel Hogarth

Howard has over 40 years' plantation experience in Indonesia, and has acted as CEO of major plantation companies owned by Sinar Mas Group and Bakrie Group.

Following his corporate roles, Howard has advised on plantation valuations, acquisition and turn-around situations.


Joel has worked on a significant number of plantation acquisitions.

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Regulatory Note: We are sometimes asked to describe our services. We provide strategic advice to companies on transformative situations: from mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures to financing, refinancing and restructuring. This involves creating financial models, analytical reports, presentations and designing and implementing a strategic plan. While we have senior lawyers and accountants on our team, we do not directly provide accounting, tax, securities or (typically) legal advice - we maintain a strong network of leading law firms, accountancy firms, tax advisors and securities firms, and are happy to coordinate a unified strategy and manage the work under a single point of contact. Our legal personnel qualified in New York and England maintain their bar registrations and practising certificates for those occasions where we provide non-reserved legal advice in the course of our activities, and Eliot & Luther (UK) Ltd is registered with the Solicitors Regulation Authority with registered number 836263.

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