Mid Associate - Family & Private Client

Assegaf Hamzah & Partners; Jakarta Pusat; Hybrid; IDR 300,000,000 - 550,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & Health Insurance

Work From Home

Training & Professional Development

Maternity & Paternity Leave

Free Lunch or Snacks

Performance Bonus

Business Trip

Hybrid

Legal

Staff

Job summary

Assegaf Hamzah & Partners in Jakarta seeks a Mid Associate (4–7 PQE) to join our Family & Private Client Practice. You will handle estate planning, wills, succession, and cross-border private client matters for high-net-worth clients with regional reach.

You will work closely with Partners, mentor juniors, and contribute to practice development, templates, and knowledge management while maintaining high-quality drafting and client service.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in law from a reputable university.
• 4–7 years PQE at a reputable law firm, private client practice, tax advisory firm, family office, or related professional services organization.
• Strong interest in succession planning, inheritance, estate administration, family business succession, private wealth, and high-net-worth advisory work.
• Excellent legal drafting and analytical skills.
• Excellent verbal and written English.
• Strong project management and organisational skills.
• Able to manage matters independently while maintaining high attention to detail.
• Commercially minded and capable of understanding client objectives beyond legal issues.
• Comfortable working directly with high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs, and family business principals.
• A team player with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrated leadership potential and experience supervising junior lawyers will be highly regarded.

Responsibilities

• Advise clients on estate planning, wills, inheritance, succession, estate administration, family governance, and family business succession matters.
• Handle cross-border private client matters involving multiple jurisdictions and coordinate with overseas counsel.
• Prepare legal advice, legal opinions, wills, powers of attorney, family arrangements, succession documents, and other legal deliverables.
• Manage client relationships and participate in meetings with clients, family members, advisors, notaries, tax consultants, trustees, and other stakeholders.
• Lead and manage matters independently while working closely with Partners.
• Supervise, mentor, and review the work of junior associates and trainees.
• Assist in business development initiatives, proposals, credentials, client presentations, seminars, and thought leadership projects.
• Contribute to the development of practice precedents, templates, and knowledge management resources.

Skills

English fluency

Legal drafting

Project management

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Leadership potential

Independent working

Interpersonal skills

Team collaboration

Education

Law degree

Job description

Assegaf Hamzah & Partners ("AHP"), one of Indonesia's leading full-service law firms and a member of the Rajah & Tann Asia network, is seeking a talented and motivated Mid Associate (4–7 PQE) to join our growing Family & Private Client Practice.

Our Family & Private Client Practice advises high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs, family businesses, family offices, and multinational families on a broad spectrum of personal, family, succession, and wealth preservation matters. We are increasingly involved in complex cross-border mandates involving succession planning, estate administration, family business succession, wealth structuring, tax coordination, and family disputes.

Why Join Us?

You will have the opportunity to work closely with leading practitioners on some of the most sophisticated family wealth and succession matters in Indonesia, while being part of a regional network with access to cross-border opportunities throughout Asia.

Job Description

The successful candidate will be expected to:

• Advise clients on estate planning, wills, inheritance, succession, estate administration, family governance, and family business succession matters.
• Handle cross-border private client matters involving multiple jurisdictions and coordinate with overseas counsel.
• Prepare legal advise, legal opinions, wills, powers of attorney, family arrangements, succession documents, and other legal deliverables.
• Manage client relationships and participate in meetings with clients, family members, advisors, notaries, tax consultants, trustees, and other stakeholders.
• Lead and manage matters independently while working closely with Partners.
• Supervise, mentor, and review the work of junior associates and trainees.
• Assist in business development initiatives, proposals, credentials, client presentations, seminars, and thought leadership projects.
• Contribute to the development of practice precedents, templates, and knowledge management resources.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in law from a reputable university.
• 4–7 years PQE at a reputable law firm, private client practice, tax advisory firm, family office, or related professional services organization.
• Strong interest in succession planning, inheritance, estate administration, family business succession, private wealth, and high-net-worth advisory work.
• Excellent legal drafting and analytical skills.
• Excellent verbal and written English.
• Strong project management and organisational skills.
• Able to manage matters independently while maintaining high attention to detail.
• Commercially minded and capable of understanding client objectives beyond legal issues.
• Comfortable working directly with high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs, and family business principals.
• A team player with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrated leadership potential and experience supervising junior lawyers will be highly regarded.

Preferred Qualifications

Candidates with experience in one or more of the following areas will be particularly attractive:

• Estate planning and wills
• Family business succession
• Private wealth and HNWI advisory
• Family governance
• Wealth structuring
• Tax-related private client matters
• Family disputes and inheritance disputes
• Cross-border succession matters

Perks and Benefits

• Medical & Health Insurance
• Work From Home
• Training & Professional Development
• Maternity & Paternity Leave
• Free Lunch or Snacks
• Performance Bonus
• Business Trip
• Hybrid
• Legal
• Staff