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Marina Kahiani, Senior Lawyer (Almaty)
Education
Marina is a qualified Kazakh Lawyer with LL.M degree
from London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)(London, UK).
Experience
Marina Kahiani is a Senior
Lawyer in the Finance and Securities Department at GRATA Law Firm.
Marina joined GRATA as a London representative office in September 2008,
relocated to Almaty head office in September 2009. Previously she also worked
for two years as a Banker at BTA Bank, International Funding Department.
Marina specialises in
financial law and securities.
Recent
transactions (2011):
- Advising EBRD 3.1 billion KZT loan to AES
Sogrinsk LLP, a large electricity and heat power producer in Kazakhstan
(ongoing);
- Advising EBRD 1.236 billion KZT senior loan
to Aktau TVS&V, water and district heating company of the City of
Aktau, Kazakhstan (ongoing);
- Advising EBRD 13.6 EUR million loan to water and
waste water disposal company in Kazakhstan (ongoing);
- Advising EBRD 10 million USD loan to a drilling
services company in Kazakhstan (ongoing);
- Advising EBRD on a syndicated loan to a Russian
group of companies, as well as advice on issues concerned with a Kazakh
company pledging its shares, movables and immovables.
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- advising Korean investors on the development,
financing, construction, operation and maintenance of the Balkhash thermal
power plant (ongoing debut IPP project in Kazakhstan);
- advising Korean investors on the development,
financing, construction, operation and maintenance of a 100 ~ 150 MW
combined cycle gas fired power plant in the Kyzylorda region, Kazakhstan
(ongoing);
- advising two largest banks – subsidiaries of
foreign banks in Kazakhstan in the first local syndicated 50 million USD loan
for a large fertilizers producer in Kazakhstan;
- advising dealers and a trustee on a 3 billion USD
transaction as part of Euro Medium Term Note Program of Eurasian Natural
Resources Corporation PLC, guaranteed by Kazakh guarantors;
- advising International Finance Corporation on the
financing of a sea vessels purchase and mortgage of fleet;
- advising the Eurasian Development Bank on the
financing of sea vessels construction and purchase and mortgage of vessels
under construction;
- advising the Islamic Development Bank on Murabaha
transaction;
- advising on a potential transaction regarding the
issuance of sovereign sukuk (ongoing);
- advising a foreign financial company with regards
to offering and sale of derivatives products in Kazakhstan and general
local legal framework for derivatives;
- advising foreign creditors on BTA Bank and
Alliance Bank restructuring and general insolvency proceedings in
Kazakhstan.
Marina speaks Russian and English. |
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