Speakers and Moderators

Fabian Buddy Pascoal

Fabian Buddy Pascoal is a partner and one of the founding members of Hanafiah Ponggawa & Partners (now Dentons HPRP). Having joined the firm's predecessor in 1992, he was made a partner in 1999. He holds all three of the legal professional licenses recognized in Indonesia, being licensed as an Advocate, as a Capital Market Legal Counsel, and as an Intellectual Property Consultant.

As a leading figure in Dentons HPRP, Fabian has played an important role in a wide range of significant transactions involving both domestic and international business in various types of work, such as foreign direct investment, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, Environment, Social & Governance (ESG), carbon, energy, mining, and plantations, and serving as an Indonesian law expert witness in several cases in foreign courts and arbitration hearings.

Nicholas Levenstein

A few years ago, I spent three years running a computer consulting company before selling it to a large East Coast publisher. While working there, I happened to watch Barbarians at the Gate and thought, “Wow, you can buy companies with other people’s money.” The next year, I secured an agreement to purchase 66% of a company that had approached me while at the publisher.

My father said raising money would be easy (it was—I found investors in two weeks) but warned that closing the deal would be hard. He was right. Six months of tough negotiations with shareholders, bankers, relatives and previously unkonwn subsidiaries followed. But it was the most exciting thing I’ve ever done. Acquiring a great, growing business and eventually selling it is incredibly rewarding.

In Indonesia’s promising economy, with its population, resources, and internet penetration, many great companies are still under the radar. Yet, Indonesia attracts only a fraction of the private equity investment the U.S. receives. Are those barriers still valid in 2024? Let’s explore with real financiers, business owners, and professionals.

Why this conference? Because I want what you want: stakes in great companies in a growing economy. Let’s have real conversations to discover what’s possible.