Darrell R. Johnson has resided in Indonesia for 30 years. Mr. Johnson's expertise includes Indonesian finance, banking and capital markets law, foreign investment law, oil and gas law, mergers and acquisitions, insurance law and corporate and commercial law.
A 1966 honors graduate in political science from the University of Southern California and Cambridge University, Mr. Johnson earned a 1969 J.D. degree from Stanford Law School. While at Stanford, Mr. Johnson was a member of the Board of Editors of the Stanford Law Review and Chairman of the International Law Society. Mr. Johnson is a member of the State Bar of California and has been admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Federal District Court (Central District) of California.
He is a member of the American Bar Association (Sections of International Law and Practice; Business Law; Law and Practice Management; Administrative Law; Real Estate Property Law; Intellectual Property Law), the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (Sections of Banking Law and Business Organizations), and the International Bar Association (Committees on Banking Law; Business Organizations; Issues and Trading in Securities; Multinationals and Foreign Investment Policy; International Franchising). Mr. Johnson is a member of the Board of Advisors of the International and Comparative Law Center of the Southwestern Legal Foundation, and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Asia Pacific Center of the American Arbitration Association. He is also First Vice President and a member of the Board of Governors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia.
In 1997, Mr. Johnson was selected as a Fellow of the American Bar Association. He is a founding member of the International Insolvency Institute. Mr. Johnson was also a founding member of the Board of Advisors of the ELIPS Project, Indonesia's commercial law reform project from 1992-1996, the largest single country effort of its kind in the world, and managed the ELIPS Project on behalf of the Project's contractors.
Mr. Johnson has been selected by the International Financial Law Review as one of the leading capital markets, project finance, energy and natural resource, and banking lawyers and as the leading insurance lawyer in Indonesia, by IFLR1000 as a leading mergers and acquisitions lawyer, by Legal 500 as a leading banking and finance, project finance and energy lawyer, and by Asia Law & Practice as one of the leading banking, corporate, corporate finance, corporate restructuring, insurance and reinsurance, project finance, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets lawyers in Indonesia. He has also been cited by Chambers' Global as one of the top banking and finance, corporate and commercial, and mergers and acquisitions lawyers, by The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers as a leading oil and gas, project finance and insolvency and restructuring lawyer,and by PLC Which Lawyer as a leading project finance and insolvency and restructuring lawyer.
Mr. Johnson has written and spoken frequently on Indonesian legal matters. Among his articles are Commercial Laws of Indonesia, Commercial Laws of Asia, Sweet and Maxwell (1997), Indonesian Intellectual Property Laws, Intellectual Property Laws of Asia (with Ms. A. Supriyani Kardono), Sweet and Maxwell (1997); Indonesian Capital Markets, Capital Market Laws of the World (with Ms. Ira Eddymurthy), Oceana Publications (1997); Going International in Indonesia, Counseling Emerging Companies in Going International, American Bar Association (1994); Electric Power, Telecommunications and Clean Water Supply, Indonesian Investment Manual, Asia Law and Practice (1996); "The Indonesian Banking Restructuring Programme", Global Banking and Financial Policy Review (1999/2000) (with Susandarini); Debt Restructuring Principles of the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency, Global Banking and Financial Policy Review (2001/2002); "The Road to Reform", Doing Business With Indonesia (with Ms. Ira Eddymurthy), Asia Law & Practice (2004); the Indonesia chapter of Getting the Deal Through - Mergers & Acquisitions (with Ms. Retty Suhardiman and Md. Kadri), Global Competition Review (2004-2007) and the legal viewpoint in The Report: Emerging Indonesia 2007, Oxford Business Group (2007).
Mr. Johnson's Recent Publications
Business Visa Update in Indonesia
New Indonesian Mining Divestment Requirements
Indonesia's Masterplan for Economic Development
A Note, in English, Concerning Law No. 24
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