Nur Eka Pradata
Nur Eka Pradata is a highly regarded corporate and commercial lawyer with over 15 years of experience advising multinational corporations, financial institutions, and Indonesian businesses on high-value transactions and regulatory matters.
His areas of focus include corporate structuring, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment, employment law, and legal issues in the and healthcare sectors. His experience spans key industries such as insurance, logistics, technology, and consumer goods.
He co-founded CorraLegal in 2025 after building a strong track record at several of Indonesia’s most respected law firms. He has represented both domestic and international clients in structuring investments, executing acquisitions, and navigating complex regulatory requirements. In 2017, he was seconded to a leading Japanese law firm in Singapore, where he advised on cross-border transactions involving Southeast Asia and Japan.
Nur Eka earned his Bachelor of Laws from the University of Indonesia (2010), majoring in Business Law, and his Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Corporate and Commercial Law from Maastricht University, the Netherlands (2014).
Recognition
Asia Business Law Journal
Indonesia’s Top Lawyers (the A-List) 2024 and 2025
Asian Business Law Journal
Future Legal Leaders (2023)
IFLR1000
Rising Star Partner (2024)
Asian Legal Business
Indonesia Rising Stars 2024Acknowledgements
Partner of Lee and Li praises partner Nur Eka Pradata at GHP Law Firm for his proficiency in cross-border transactional law.
"Pradata is experienced in handling cross-border transactions, has great business sense, and is committed to providing efficient and professional services," "Pradata is always the first transaction lawyer whom I will recommend to our colleagues and clients when there is any legal work in Indonesia."
Nur Eka Pradata brings further M&A expertise to the fore and possesses a wide asset understanding.
Legal 500
“I have closely worked with Nur Pradata's team in a Chinese listed company's acquisition of an Indonesian trading company. Nur Pradata has demonstrated comprehensive deal experience and good patience during the transaction, providing many helpful local laws based legal advice to Chinese client, which has played a significant role in our ability to ultimately complete the transaction.
We are very willing to continue working with Nur Pradata and his team in future transactions involving Indonesia.”
Partner of Jingtian & Gongcheng
Select career highlights
Sovereign Retail Sukuk Issuances (2015 & 2017)
Advised the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia on the issuance and sale of Sovereign Retail Sukuk in the primary domestic market, including review of offering documentation and transaction structuring.
Digital Market Entry & Data Privacy Compliance
Advised a Japanese telecom group and other multinationals on personal data transfer, registration as electronic system providers, and structuring online business operations in Indonesia.
Employment Restructuring & Expatriate Permitting
Advised on terminations, employee transfers, and compensation matters. Guided clients through Indonesian immigration requirements for expatriate hires, including RPTKA and KITAS processes.
Crypto and IoT Advisory
Counseled overseas entities on launching crypto trading, gaming, and IoT ventures in Indonesia, including regulatory classification, affiliate liability, and licensing options.
Tech and E-Commerce Contracts
Reviewed and negotiated terms of use, privacy policies, and cross-border sales agreements for marketplace operators, MVNOs, and digital service providers operating in Indonesia.
Represented international clients in acquisitions and joint ventures across multiple sectors, including legal due diligence, transaction documentation, and post-deal compliance.
Assisted multinational clients in setting up subsidiaries, foreign representative offices, and joint ventures in Indonesia, including regulatory licensing, shareholding compliance, and board composition.
Acted for FMCG and beauty product clients in termination of local distributor relationships, reviewing risk exposure and exit strategy in line with Indonesian laws.
Conducted land due diligence and drafted lease and transfer documentation for villas and commercial properties, including title analysis under foreign ownership structures.
Worked with cross-border teams on Southeast Asia mandates, enhancing expertise in multi-jurisdictional transactions and regional compliance matters.
Key transactions & experience
General Corporate & Investment
- Advising various international clients to conduct its business activities in Indonesia.
- Assisting various foreign owned subsidiaries and Indonesian companies in preparing their requisite corporate documents.
- Carrying out legal due diligence investigations and preparing due diligence reports with regard to the compliance issue under Indonesian laws and regulations.
- Advising and assisting various international clients on its presence in Indonesia by way of setting up of a subsidiary company, foreign representative office (including change of its chief representative office) or foreign trade representative office.
- Assisting and advising various international clients in changing the composition of their Indonesian subsidiary companies’ Board of Directors and Board of Commissioners.
- Advising and assisting various international clients on share ownership issue (including assisting them in transfer of shares and divestment issue).
- Advising and assisting various clients on amending its corporate documents (including Articles of Association and licenses/permits).
- Advising and assisting various international clients on preparing or reviewing (as applicable) various agreements for their business operation, joint venture agreement/shareholders’ agreement, non-disclosure agreement, distributorship agreement, sales agreement, novation agreement, joint operation agreement and other type of agreements.
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
- Assisting and representing various international clients in various M&A transactions including preparing the relevant transaction documents, conduting legal due diligence and assisting them in closing transactions. This includes advising and assisting various international clients in M&A transactions in the fields of manufacture, insurance, transportation, cold storage, food, cooking oil, mining, property, healthcare, trading and distribution, outsourcing of manpower and other business activities.
- Advising international clients on land and building laws and the acquisition and management of commercial real property.
Land
- Conducuting land due diligence for various international clients (including conducting due diligence on assets).
- Preparing and reviewing land lease agreements for various purposes.
- Advising on land issues including land transfer issue.
- Advising on land ownership under Indonesian laws and regulations.
- Reviewing land transfer documents for the purpose of land acquisition for villas in Bali.
Employment and Immigration
- Advising on and assisting various clients in obtaining the requisite Indonesian law work permits and visas for expatriates and in making the necessary filings with the relevant governmental agencies.
- Advising and assisting various international clients in a share ownership program for their employees in Indonesia.
- Advising various international clients on employee statutory entitlements under Indonesian law in relation to termination of employment or retrenchment (including assisting the client to conduct the bipartite meeting with the relevant employee on the termination of employment).
- Advising and assisting various international clients on “transfer” of employees.
- Advising an international client on sexual harrasement in a work place.
- Advising on non-solicitation and non-competition issues in Indonesia.
- Advising on other matters relating to employment issues and compliance under Indonesian laws and regulations (including preparing and reviewing employment agreements, company regulations and employee hand book).
- Advising and assisting clients on warning letters and preparing such warning letters.
Banking and Finance
- Assisting the Government of Indonesia’s Ministry of Finance in the issuance and sale of Sovereign Retail Sukuk (sharia bonds) in the Primary Domestic Market in 2015.
- Reviewing various loan documents including its guarantee documents.
- Assisting the Government of Indonesia’s Ministry of Finance in the issuance and selling of Sovereign
- Retail Sukuk in the Primary Domestic Market in 2017.
Information and Technology (IT) and data privacy
- Advising various international clients in relation to the proposed gaming and e-sport businesses in Indonesia;
- Advising international clients on cyrpto currency businesses in Indonesia;
- Advising an international client on affiliator business in Indonesia;
- Advising international clients on Internet of Things (IoT) and Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) businesses in Indonesia;
- Advising an international client on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) business in Indonesia;
- Advising an international client to conduct online school from outside Indonesia jurisdiction;
- Advising a subsidiary company of a conglomerate company in Indonesia with regard to the points for payment and preparing the relevant agreement;
- Advising various clients (including one of the biggest telecommunication providers from Japan) on general data privacy requirement including marketing agreement conducted through an electronic system;
- Advising various international clients in reviewing terms of use agreement, privacy notice/policy and
- Advising international clients in relation to the market place/e-commerce business in Indonesia and voice-application business;
- Advising various international clients in relation to the sale of a gift card in Indonesia; and
- Assisting and advising intenational clients on the registration as a private electronic system provider in the relevant government institution in Indonesia.
Competition
- Advising and assisting various international clients on the requirements for the submission of notifications or consultations relating to M&A transactions (including offshore acquisition); and
- Advising international clients on pricing issues in Indonesia.
Construction
- Advising various international clients on the proposed establishment of a company to conduct construction services in Indonesia;
- Advising various international clients on the secondment issues to conduct construction services in Indonesia; and
- Assisting a client in preparing a consortium agreement.
Healthcare and food & beverages
- Advising various international clients on the distributoship scheme for healthcare products and food & beverages products in Indonesia;
- Advising and assisting an international client in relation to the termination of distributorship agreement for distributing chocolate in Indonesia;
- Reviewing an agreement in relation to the order of dental product;
- Advising one of the cosmetic clients on the marketing language in Indonesia; and
- Advising an international client on tradional medicine to be sold in Indonesia.
Intellectual Property Rights
- Advising international clients on registering their trademarks in Indonesia;
- Advising international clients with regard to licensing issues; and
- Advising and reviewing relevant agreements for an Indonesian child actor.
Anti-corruption
- Advising international clients on anti-corruption and bribery issues in Indonesia.
Articles, Client’s Update and Papers
- Directors’ and Officers’ Liability in Indonesia. A Global Guide To Directors’ And Officers’ Issues Around The World 2013, Publisher: Zurich;
- Islamic Finance & Markets 2018. Getting The Deal Through, Publisher: Law Business Research;
- Islamic Finance & Markets 2016. Getting The Deal Through, Publisher: Law Business Research;
- Client’s update: Establishment of COVID-19 Handling Committee and Dissolution of 18 State Institutions (2020); and
- Insurance and Reinsurance in Indonesia: Overview. Insurance and Reinsurance Global Guide, Publisher: Practical Law;
- Client’s update: Requirement to Submit an Annual Financial Report (2020);
- Islamic Finance & Markets 2017. Getting The Deal Through, Publisher: Law Business Research;
- Client’s update: Indonesia: Foreign Direct Investment (2020 and 2021).
Speakers
- Klik Legal – How to Retain Client During Pandemic
- ET Asia – Adopting Resolutions
- BLS FHUI – Start Up Establishment and Fundraising
- ET – Asia – Documents for Establishment of a Company in Indonesia
- ET Asia – Company Law in Practice
- Sisi hukum – Legal Due Diligence
- ET Asia – Development of Limited Liability Companies
- Seoul Bar Association – Positive Investment List
- One of China Associations - General Overview on Investment in Indonesia
- ET Asia – Company Structure and Mechanism for Adopting Resolutions