Benaya Ari Patra Sitorus, S.H.

Benaya is a Founding Partner at SGS Law Firm, heading the firm’s Corporate, Financial Technology (FinTech), and Insurance practice groups. He brings a distinguished combination of top-tier private practice expertise and extensive client-side leadership, having served both as external counsel and in-house legal advisor to major multinational corporations and high-growth technology enterprises.

Benaya launched his legal career at Harvardy, Marieta & Mauren – Attorneys at Law, where he handled complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions, FinTech regulations, insurance compliance, employment law, commercial litigation, and general corporate transactions. Demonstrating exceptional domain expertise in the financial services sector, Benaya was seconded in 2020 and 2021 as in-house legal counsel to two of Indonesia’s premier multinational insurance companies, where he managed the legal due diligence, regulatory alignment, and corporate execution for major M&A deals.

His track record is further backed by hands-on in-house experience across key tech and financial industry verticals. He has served as in-house counsel for a leading IT company, a market-leading insurance brokerage firm, and one of Indonesia’s pioneer peer-to-peer (P2P) lending FinTech platforms.

Holding a Bachelor of Laws (S.H.) from Universitas Diponegoro, Benaya regularly guides financial institutions, digital platforms, and corporate clients through complex regulatory frameworks under the Financial Services Authority (Otoritas Jasa Keuangan — OJK) and Bank Indonesia.