Calm, commercial advice for the deals and contracts that shape your business.
Top-tier transactional experience. JDHP Advisory is the trusted adviser to Australian and Indonesian businesses, family-owned groups and investors in Australia.
Buying or selling a business or shares, bringing in investors and structuring joint ventures, run end to end. Dino has advised buyers, sellers and investors from Indonesia, Japan, Korea, China and Singapore on their strategic Australian deals.
Fractional General Counsel
A senior lawyer on a fixed monthly retainer who knows your business and works as part of your team. Call with a quick question, and key risks get flagged before they become disputes.
Business Restructuring
Reorganising groups, including Australian subsidiaries of offshore parents: moving assets or debt between entities, debt-to-equity conversions and shareholder changes. We regularly work closely with tax advisers to ensure the legal and tax outcomes line up.
Financing
Loans, convertible notes, security and investor documentation for borrowers and investors. Dino also reviews facility agreements before you sign, so the default and guarantee terms are understood up front.
Supply, Offtake and Commercial Contracts
Supply, offtake, distribution and services agreements including mining services contracts and commercial leases.
Agribusiness and Mining
Extensive experience advising in the agribusiness and mining sectors on acquisitions, joint ventures, partnerships and offtake and supply arrangements across agriculture and livestock, food and dairy, aquaculture and mining.
Not sure where your matter fits? Get in touch and we can discuss whether we're the right fit to support you.
For Indonesian families and businesses
The Australia Desk
One lawyer for your Australian business and investments.
For Indonesian families and businesses with companies, investments or property in Australia. I act as your ongoing adviser: keeping your companies compliant, providing company secretarial services and flagging risks before they become expensive problems. When you're considering a purchase, sale or other change to your Australian portfolio, I advise early so you can move quickly.
What it covers
Reviewing how your Australian companies and holdings are structured
Buying, selling or investing in Australian businesses
Agreements with partners, managers and service providers
Board and governance arrangements for your Australian subsidiaries
Corporate secretarial support: ASIC lodgements, company registers, resolutions and annual reviews
A yearly compliance calendar, so deadlines aren't missed
Working with your accountants, agents and banks in Australia
The way in: the Australian Asset Review
A fixed-fee review of your Australian holdings, structures and obligations, finished with a written summary and a walkthrough meeting. You'll know where you stand, what needs attention and what it will cost to fix.
Dino is an experienced corporate M&A lawyer who advises both corporate and private clients on mergers and acquisitions, foreign investment, financing, complex restructuring and commercial and business contracts.
Prior to establishing JDHP Advisory, Dino was a senior lawyer in the M&A team of a top-tier Australian law firm, where he led its Indonesia practice and advised clients from Indonesia, Japan, Korea, China and Singapore on their Australian investments.
His work there covered private acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, restructurings, distressed and special situations deals, private equity and corporate governance. He also negotiated a significant number of commercial contracts, including supply, tolling and offtake arrangements, particularly in the agricultural and mining sectors.
He founded JDHP Advisory to give founders, family businesses and investors the same quality of advice directly, with senior attention on every matter.
His Indonesian fluency and background give him a close understanding of how Indonesian businesses operate and make decisions. He acts for Indonesian-led businesses and investors in Australia, from market entry through to day-to-day operations, and meets clients in Bahasa Indonesia or English.
He holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) from the University of New South Wales and is admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales.
Selected experience
An Indonesian-owned dairy distributor on all aspects of its Australian operations, including the acquisition of a cheese manufacturer out of administration through a deed of company arrangement
An Indonesian investor consortium on all aspects of its Australian coffee chain, including financing, commercial contracts and retail leases
A major Australian solar panel installer on a commercial partnership arrangement
An Indonesian matcha group on its shareholder governance arrangements
SK Networks, a major South Korean conglomerate, on the sale of its joint venture stakes in a number of New South Wales coal mines*
JBS, a global meat processor, on its:
A$425m acquisition of Huon Aquaculture, an ASX-listed salmon producer*
A$175m acquisition of Rivalea, a major Australian pork producer*
ITOCHU, a major Japanese trading house, on the sale of its 10% interest in the Ravensworth North coal mine in New South Wales*
MegaChips, a Japanese semiconductor company, on its A$100m investment in Morse Micro, a Sydney-based technology developer*
* Transactions on which Dino acted as the senior lawyer in the deal team, prior to JDHP.
“A fantastic all-rounder … very responsive, knowledgeable and a creative problem solver.”
Indonesian family office
How I work
Flexible engagement structured around how your business operates.
Defined work
Project-specific
For defined pieces of work, such as a shareholders agreement or a lease review.
Ongoing
Fractional general counsel
A fixed monthly fee covering an agreed level of ongoing support, reviewed as your needs change.
Indonesian clients
Australia Desk
A fixed monthly fee for Indonesian-led businesses and families with Australian operations or investments, usually starting with an Asset Review.
Contact
Let's talk about your matter.
Tell me briefly what you're working on and I'll come back to you within two business days.