COMMITMENT TO CLIENTS
ADAMS & CO., Counsellors-at-Law is an Indonesian law firm founded in September 1999 by lawyers currently retaining qualified personnel with adequate work experiences and appropriate educational backgrounds to enable us in providing our clients as “one-stop” legal services with professional integrity and competitive edge.

ADAMS & CO., Counsellors-at-Law deploys “EAR” approach, i.e. Efficient and Effective, Accurate and Rapid in providing integrated and comprehensive legal and other-related-business-transaction services in the form of a total package to meet and suit our clients’ requirements. Presently, we have world-wide network in Europe, Taiwan, Korea, and Singapore.

 

SPECIALIZED PRACTICES
ADAMS & CO., Counsellors-at-Law has particular strength in several practice areas that enhances our ability to assist clients with various business activities. These areas include :
- Commercial and corporate law;
- Corporate secretarial works;
- Foreign and domestic investments, and venture capital;
- Capital market and prospectus/info memo preparation from legal side;
- Restructure, merger, acquisition, and consolidation;
- Corporate finance;
- Banking and finance;
- Infrastructure, power plant, and mining;
- Anti-dumping, anti-subsidy, and safeguard;
- Unfair-competition/anti-trust;
- Intellectual property rights;
- Computer and cyber law
- Employment and labor law;
- Immigration and custom law;
- Landlord and tenant;
- Real estate, property, conveyancing, and strata-title;
- Litigation and commercial litigation
- Arbitration, and alternative dispute settlement;
- Liquidation and dissolution;
- Bankruptcy law and suspension of payment;
- Debt recovery;
- Family law.

BILLING PRACTICE
The international practice of billing by the hour is applied in the Firm. Our rates range from USD50.00 - USD200.00 per hour (which may be modified from time to time), depending on the skill, experience and knowledge of the attorneys in charge of the assignment. Compared to other law firms of our size in Indonesia, these rates rank quite favorable. For particular types of work, such as dispute settlements (litigation or arbitration) and capital markets transactions, upon client's request we may make exceptions.

INVOICES
Our invoices for expenses incurred may be denominated in United States Dollars or Indonesian Rupiah. These expenses include, in addition to the legal fees, facsimile, long distance telephone calls, courier service, travel, staff and building overtime and photocopy. Should we anticipate incurring a significant amount of out of pocket expenses, we will require clients for advances.

Invoices are issued monthly, at the beginning of the month for work which requires a relatively lengthy amount of time to complete or at any time of the month forthwith upon completion of the work for shorter term transactions. Payment matures upon receipt of our bill.

DEPOSIT
ADAMS & CO., Counsellors-at-Law requires all new clients to remit a deposit of USD2,000.00. We will hold this deposit until the attorney-client business relationship ceases. After proper settlement of all our accounts, the balance (if any) will be refunded.

RETAINER SERVICES
ADAMS & CO., Counsellors-at-Law is also opened to clients seeking a lawyer-client retainer arrangement for a retainer fee of USD 2,000.00 (excluding any disbursements and taxes) per month, payable in advance for a three month basis. The monthly retainer fee shall be for legal services provided for a maximum of 20 effective working hours a month. In the event any work is completed within a period of one month amounting to a total effective working hours in excess of 20 hours, we will charge clients the additional fees based on the additional hours contributed for completing the work.

 

CONTINGENCY FEE
Usually used if Client have a fairly strong case regarding with Claims but Client have no funds to pay Adams & Co at the beginning of the case. With this term of arrangement Adams & Co receives a percentage of the recovery agreed upon at the time Adams & Co begin representing Client. Percentage is based on number of factors including type of case and stage at which case is resolved. If Client lose, Adams & Co does not receives any fee, but Client will still have to pay for any transport, filing fees, depositions and other expenses that are involved such as expert witnesses or document production whether Client win or lose. Client will be billed upon completion of case, except for expenses that must be paid as they are incurred.