Law Does Not Work On Empty Space

• As a Business Lawyer you have to know that law does not rule something which is vacant.
• So the object that you are intending to view from the legal aspects  are NOT related to Empty Space
  
• Accordingly, since you are a Business Lawyer,  you have to be aware of  the business object which your Clients wants you to protect from the legal aspects.
• You have to make sure that Businessmen in conducting their business, wants  to ensure that their investment or monies thrown in their business   are well legally protected and desires  to get profit out of their business ventures.
• For instances Businessmen or the Investors want to make sure that their monies either from Loans or Prospective Investors, which are invested or capitalized  in their Hotels Business which includes Fittings, Buildings, Lands,  all Fixed items and the moving assets, which will be part of the Hotel Accessories including the Manpower (from Management and all the supporting staffs) are secured starting from the Memorandum of Understandings, Legal Documentations of the Land and Buildings, Licenses needed, Loan Agreements, Cooperation Agreements, Management  Agreements, and all other documents and agreements, that are needed to be concluded including the Legal Due Diligence or Legal Opinion that are needed to be made depending on the negotiation and understanding between the Investors, Financiers, and all other  stakeholders relating to such Hotel Business Activities are really done and handled by Professional Qualified Business Lawyer.
• So as you may notice there are wide range of knowledge that as Business Lawyer has to dig from your Clients to enable you to provide professional legal  services to your prospective Clients and for sure Law Does Not Work In Empty Space so the Object of the Business should be clear.
• Cheers
• Jakarta, 15th October 2009
• Agung Supomo Suleiman
• Partner Law Firm Suleiman Agung & Co     
  

Exiting Experience as a Business Lawyer

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As a business Lawyer you have to really think hard how to market and expose your self. For me since I like writing, I tend to expose my self by writing in my Blog which is called AGUNGSS Business Lawyer Note. In this Blog I can write the Business Law Experience which I had experienced during this 30 Years since I practiced Law at the Law Firm of Adnan Buyung Nasution & Associates back to the year 1979. Wauw I was still young during that time of period. But it is really exiting working as a Business Lawyer where I had helped my Senior Lawyers during those period by starting making researches upon the Law data and policy obtained from the Technical Department concern, as well as starting to draft agreements and letters from the legal aspects.
I remember handling matters relating to  banking, financing, labor matters, insurance, financing shipping business, trademarks, patents and drafting  agreements to be reviewed by my Senior Lawyers. I even do some searches in Sampit Pangkalan Bun representing an Insurance Client relating to the insured Tug Boats,  its Barges and Heavy Equipments such as Tractors being loaded and shipped for a saw mill deep inside Kalimatan, where the Barges were stranded at Pangkalan Bun, Sampit. There was no modern phone devices during those days, so it was rather hard to make contacts and communications with our Law Office at Jakarta. We were chartered a small Plane,  which flies very low and near the surface of the River at Kalimantan and was piloted by an Ex-American Pilot who experienced in Vietnam. Yes, it was really exiting experience which was occurring at the end Year of 1979. Well, the above was one of my experiences as a Business lawyer handling insurance cases  related to a stranded Barge at Pangkalan Bun Sampit, Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Cheers,
Jakarta, 14 th October 2009
Agung Supomo Suleiman  

Snap Shot Business lawyer

As a Business Lawyer you have also experienced yourself  running your own boutique Law Firm Shop, where there is the ups and downs of your cash flow
It is really not easy to run your own boutique shop
When you are an in-house Lawyer in a Company, the endusers as well as the management will come to your place to ask for your legal assistance;
Whereas, if you are opening your own shop, you have to market yourself to your Clients. You have to tell to them who you are and what can you do in terms of Legal Services.
So there must be a "mental switch" for you as the Partner of the Boutique Law Firm.
There is no free lunch in this world. You have to be expert in some legal aspects relating to the business environment. You have to go around and meet people outside your office.
As long as you like your new venture being an Independent Lawyer running your own Shop there will be an opportunity for your to get some work from your networks and links.
So, go out and meet people, and try to make new friends within your business legal expertise
Cheers
Jakarta 9 October 2009
Agung Supomo Suleiman

Honest Integrity

• As a Lawyer including Business lawyer you are required to keep and always maintain your honest integrity.
• In this Holy Fasting Month, as a Muslim (one who surrenders to God's will) , we are being required by the Creator to conduct fasting for 30 days.
• As a professional lawyer, we have to do with our best to be honest to ourselves by trying to clean our hearts and our mind.
• In order to clean your surroundings, you are supposed to firstly clean your intention and your mind set.
• As a human being we are frequently sidetracked by our physical wants and greediness in this real world
• Human being consists of physical element (our body) and non - physical element ( mind -soul).
• Our physical body during this Fasting months is being trained to managed itself by waking up in the early dawn before the Subuh Prayer, to “take food” and is obligated to fast –stop eating – taking food - during the day time - and is allowed to “break Fasting” during the Sunset – Magrib.
• As Muslims – the Servants Of Our Creator - we are being trained to feed our Soul by – not doing things which could –jeopardize – our fast- by not talking bad -evil things- looking at bad -evil things – thinking of bad thinks – praising and always thinking of GOD – and do the goodly things and actions – which are loved by GOD- to increase our awareness of "our real mission" - being created in this world by the ALL MIGHTY.
• This is a method to clean and purify our mind and soul – as being taught by our Creator.
• Well, as a Lawyer, we really have to be thankful, to our Creator, because we are given the chance every - 11 months cycle - to contemplate – and re-evaluate ourselves – to remind and trained our selves to be focus and return back to our mission – to be honest to our selves before we can advise others – to do the right things – in accordance with the laws and rules - which has to be in line with God's will and God's wants as described in the Holy Books sent down by the Creator to us through God's messengers/Prophets .
• This does not merely apply to lawyers - but also to other professions – to focus on its real mission – in making this world a better place for living – in accordance with the life rhythm and cycles – as being designed by the Creator
• As human being we have to recognize – and identify - who we are, develop our awareness – and know the real reason and mission – why we live and die – because – based on Surat 21 – Al Anbiyaa ( The Prophets ) Paragraph 35 – of the Holy Book Al Quran - GOD says : “Every Soul shall taste death. We (God) shall test you with (Note : my interpretation : evils/ negative/downs/happy things ) and ( Note: my interpretation :good deeds /positive/ ups/sad things) as trial. And to Us (GOD) shall you be returned to.
• Salam,
• Jakarta, 31 August 2009
• Agung Supomo Suleiman

Drafting Finance and Corporate Documents

• We have to thank to the ALL MIGHTY, last week, as a Business Lawyer, we were really busy in assisting the Law Firm of Suleiman Agung & Co' s Clients.
• It was really interesting, because with our wide experiences in drafting finance agreements including corporate documents related to their business matters, we really enjoyed the challenges of drafting such business transactions to support and benefit your Client’s desires in exploring all the legal protection for their investments and funds for maintaining the continuity of their business goals and objectives.
• The level of comfort and confidence that you can establish to your Client is really important in maintaining your relation with your Client.
• One of the significant element besides such work is the “miracle” that you feel can happen in your life, if you really try with your best efforts to keep on maintaining your closeness contacts and channels of communication with the ALL Mighty, who at the first place, had created this Universe, including any and all the elements contain in this world, which shall enable the human to be able to increase their quality of life.
• For instance the element of steel and iron (fe) had been planted as one of the significant element in this earth, which really helps the people living in this world to increase their quality of life, if they want to use their brain and skill.
• In the structural construction of high rise buildings, you will need the iron bar to establish the concrete and structure of such high rise buildings.
• This raw materials of steel and iron is not created by mankind, but is already there incorporated and planted in the earth that we live in, as part of the materials found in this world.
• As a believer in GOD, as the creator of this Universe including the world that you live in, we have to be creative in taking and processing such iron and steel to create for instance iron bars, flat bars and angle bars for the constructing of high rise buildings.
• Other materials such as copper are also important part of the elements contained in this world, which can be utilized by mankind to make joints of electricity components and other important tools which are needed to support our day to day modern life.
• We really have to thank GOD the ALL MIGHTY who provided us brain and mind so that we can optimize our skills in developing such elements of iron, metal, copper for the benefit and good welfare of mankind.
• We as Business Lawyers must equipped ourselves, with the legal business knowledge and skills to enable us in drafting the required business legal documents such as the Financing documents, Credit Revolving Agreement, Shareholders Loan Agreements and the corporate documents such as the Extraordinary General Shareholders Meeting, the Share holder Agreement, the Joint Venture Agreement, to support our Client’s Business need in communicating and incorporating their wishes and desires in producing the components of metal, copper and iron, nickel for the benefit of mankind, to make this world a better place for living;
• The above has to be in line with the desires of the Great Creator of this Universe to maintain good welfare and increase the benefit of all human beings living in this same 1(one) world.
• By thanking to GOD for the gracefulness and Kindness to us in equipping us with the Brain and minds in the mining, exploiting the raw elements of steel, iron, metal, nickle to develop and produce them to become iron bars, electricity component, and the skills for the Business Lawyer to draft and prepare all the necessary business documents including the Mining Contracts, Financing Contracts and the necessary Corporate documents, we shall hope that we may be useful to increase the quality life of mankind and make this world a better place to live in.
• Jakarta, June 29, 2009
• Agung Supomo Suleiman
• Partner of LAW FIRM Suleiman Agung & Co

11th Anniversary Years Suleiman Agung & Co

• Thanks to ALLAH THE ALLMIGHTY, it is today the 11th Anniversary Years of THE LAW FIRM now called Suleiman Agung & Co since 1st June 1998.
• This Law Firm has been 11 Years assisting Clients in the Oil Gas Sectors, Coal Mining Sectors, Coal Traders and Financier, Hotels, High Rise Buildings, Hospitals
• We assists Clients in preparing the Memorandum of Agreements (MOU), Cooperation Agreements, Joint Operation Agreements who are desiring to seek investors, acquiring assets of Hotels, joint operations in the oil and gas Sectors, Financing the Coal Mining Companies who needs finance assistance for their Coal Plants, jetties, and their operations sites.
• We assists Clients in preparing their financing agreements and its collateral documents and fiduciary deeds and registering such Fiduciary Deeds in the Indonesian Fiduciary Office.
• Our Firm conducts legal due diligence of the legal documentations and legal transactions and other legal aspects, and licences and prepared the Legal Report for assisting our Clients to give show the proper legal documentation which are required to be shown to the investors or the financier of the certain joint Project /investment to be pursued.
• Our Law Firm knows the significant legal aspects surrounding our Clients business transactions who desires to be success in their business ventures
• Thanks to GOD the ALL MIGHTY for GOD's Gracefulness for allowing this Law Firm SULEIMAN AGUNG & Co, to celebrate its 11Th anniversary Years on the 1st June 2009.
• May God Bless You all.
• Jakarta, 1 st June 2009 revised June 17, 2009
• 11th Anniversary Years Suleiman Agung & Co
• agung supomo suleiman

NETWORKING FOR SUCCESS

• Today is the 27th May 2009. It is near to the 1st June 2009 which is nearly 11 Years since June 1, 1998 where I had started to open the Law Firm which is now called Suleiman Agung & Co. This Law Firm Suleiman Agung & Co had been operated nearly 11 Years.

There are sacrifices financially, mentally, emotionally in running this Law Firm.We have experienced handling international and local Indonesia Companies.Several problems of cash flows are normal since certain local Clients are also striving with their business financial problems.Thanks to GOD the ALL MIGHTY, we managed to cop with our cash flows. This Law Firm of Suleiman Agung & Co is an aggressive Boutique Law Firm where, who knows how to assist Clients in handling with their legal aspects to guard their investments

• I am really lucky and thanks to GOD as the Founder and Partner of this Law Firm Suleiman Agung & Co I had experienced practicing as Business Lawyer for 5 Years as in House Legal Counsel in one of the Biggest Copper Mining called PT Freeport Indonesia who also produces gold, 5 Years as in House Legal Counsel in Vico and Oil Gas Company operating in East Kalimantan,who produces gas, processed as LNG (Liquidated Natural Gas) in Bontang to be exported to Japan, 5 Years in a reputable Law Firm Adnan Buyung Nasution & Associates ( Nasution,Lubis, Hadiputranto) and 2 Years as Partner (with 15 % to 20% share in the Law Office of Delma Yuzar & Wiriadinata ( Wiriadinata & Widyawan) who was having association with Australian Law Offices and USA Law Offices. Having the above assets and experienced it benefits you as a Partner in capturing the business mind of our Clients who seeks to succeed in their venture.

Networking is the key to success.You have to always maintain and increase your network for success. With the help and permit of the ALL MIGHTY you can gain success by being professional, honest and sincere.
Jakarta, May 27, 2009 revised June 17 2009

• Agung Supomo Suleiman