Riana is a co-founder of SA Partners Law Office. She is highly skilled lawyer due to combined extensive experiences as an in-house counsel with over 14 years of experience and over 7 years in private practice, both in local and international levels.
Before effectively joining the Firm, Riana used to be a Chief Legal Officer in one of the biggest group of companies focusing in commodities trading, manufacture, logistic, property and energy business. Beforehand, Riana was also experienced as a Senior Legal Counsel (based in Singapore Regional Office) and then promoted as a Country Head of Legal for Indonesia in one out of 4 biggest commodity group of companies in the world. In her roles, she was focusing in green-field projects in Indonesia, closely working with Business Development division and gained few experiences and exposure in Korea, Myanmar and Vietnam laws for several arrangements with its respective local lawfirms.
Riana is recognized for possessing a deep understanding of and skills in corporate law, cross-border M&A transactions, project financing, corporate and debt restructurings in several sectors, with adequate commercial flavours.
Riana left the private practice as a Senior Lawyer in one of the top ten prominent law firms in Indonesia in 2006 and then joined a new telecommunication operator since its early stage of business presence in Indonesia by actively involved in its acquisition up to operations stages under Legal and Corporate Secretary Department.
Riana graduated from the University of Indonesia, majoring in Business Law, in 1997 and passed the Bar Exam for Indonesia in 2000. Riana has attended various seminars and workshops, domestic and international. Riana is member of ILUNI and PERADI.