Nazly is Partner and Head of Tax and Customs Practice at Assegaf Hamzah & Partners (“AHP”).
She has over 20 years of experience in International Tax which consists of cross-border mergers & acquisitions, global business model optimisation and international tax advisory. She advises both MNCs doing business into Indonesia (inbound) and Indonesian companies doing business overseas (outbound).
Prior to joining AHP, Nazly worked with Big Four accounting firms in San Francisco, London, Singapore and Jakarta and made an international tax partner in Jakarta. Her extensive overseas training and experience gives Nazly a rare Asia-regional and international perspective and approach. She is often asked to be a speaker or expert source by the International Tax Director at the DGT and by Indonesian Accountants Association Tax Chapter for matters that Indonesian taxation has yet to govern over such as taxation on trust, cross- border leasing and estate planning.
Nazly has served clients from almost all industries ranging from banking and financial institutions; manufacturing and distribution; oil and gas; real estate and plantation; to ultra-wealthy individuals and family-owned businesses. She has an unparallel track record having work with Indonesian biggest banks and financial institutions in diverse projects starting with tax-neutral bank merger, project financing, assets securitization including assets back securities arrangements, various peer-to-peer lending structuring, to helping banks work with PT Perusahaan Pengelola Asset to get rid of their toxic assets.
Nazly has served as non-executive independent commissioner/director and audit committee chairperson at Indonesia’s top ten insurance and assets management companies; helping Board of Directors plan and execute their programs and liaise with the Indonesia’s financial services authority over financial results and good corporate governance implementation.
Nazly is an accomplished scuba diver, a published writer on social issues, an organic farmer and a proud animal lover. Nazly is a humanitarian who serves through the Rotary Club of Jakarta Metropolitan where she made a Club President past year. Her humanitarian work brought her against tsunami in Banten 2018, earthquake in Lombok 2018, earthquake and liquefaction in Palu 2019 and great flood in Kupang 2021.
MEMBERSHIPS / DIRECTORSHIPS
- Independent Commissioner and Audit Committee Chairwoman for PT Principal Asset Management Indonesia
- Independent Commissioner and Audit Committee Chairwoman and Member of Good Corporate Governance Committee for PT Sinarmas MSIG Tbk
- Passed Qualified Risk Governance Professional (QRGP-MRG 628.000380 2019)
- Passed Certified Public Accounting for the State of California, USA (license
number: 94770) - Passed Certified Enterprise Risk Governance (license number: CERG-3120128)
- Passed Brevet A, B and C (issued by Indonesia’s Chartered Accountants
Association) - Member of International Fiscal Association
PUBLICATIONS
- “Taxation of Trade Representative Office” with David Dorson – published by Asia Pacific Tax Bulletin
- “Thin Capitalization and Secondary Adjustment” with Eddy Tambunan – published
by Asia Pacific Tax