Over the last few years, we have worked with the following clients: Credit Suisse, Dresdner Bank, Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, ABN AMRO Bank, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, Morgan Stanley, Standard Bank Plc, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, UBS, Merrill Lynch and others on the following projects:
- Advising the underwriters of the IPOs in London and Kazakhstan f a large Kazakh Mining & Metal Group (ongoing).
- Advising the potential buyer in the proposed acquisition of one of the largest Kazakhstan banks (ongoing).
- Advising a Kyrgyzstan company on bilateral loan transaction from EBRD (ongoing).
- Advising a Kazakhstani company in the beverage sector on a loan transaction from EBRD (ongoing).
- Advising the underwriters in the IPO of a leading Kazakhstan bank regarding their issue of GDRs in excess of US$800m.
- Advising a foreign bank on the project financing issues of a large Kazakhstan metal company worth US$300m.
- Advising the Lead Manager on a US$200m Eurobond issue by a Kazakhstan bank.
- Providing legal supervision on the US$200m crediting of leading Kazakhstan banks and a Kazakhstan mining enterprise by a major international bank.
- Advising on the US$150m securitization of a Kazakhstan bank’s mortgage portfolio.
- Providing legal supervision on crediting of big Kazakhstan companies by foreign banks for the amounts of US$100m and US$40m.
- Advising a German investment bank acting as facility agent on a US$50m loan to a Kazakhstani investment group.
- Advising a German investment bank acting as facility agent on a US$25m facility to a large Kazakhstani broker company.
- Advising a Russian bank in relation to the guarantee issued as a deposit to a US$100m loan agreement provided by a Russian Copper Company.
- Supervising US$50m and US$15m interbank crediting facilities.
- Supervising a US$30m Kazakhstan bank loan from a foreign bank.
- Representing a Kazakhstan oil company’s interests with regard to a US$24m pre export financing project.
- Supervising the US$6m secured loan to a Kazakhstan construction company from a foreign bank.
- Advising a foreign bank on the issues of pre-export financing of a subsidiary enterprise of a national company of Kazakhstan.
- Advising a large American bank on the issues concerning a construction company’s project financing.
- Advising a foreign bank of the rights implementation of promissory and transfer notes issued by a Kazakhstani bank.
- Advising a broker company regarding the protection of their rights as a shareholder in a Kazakhstan bank.
- Advising the Asian Development Bank regarding finance legislation (Open Joint Stock Companies Law, securities market, corporate management etc).
- Advising a large Russian company regarding the implementation of guarantees issued by a Kazakhstani bank.
- Advising Kazakhstani banks on large infrastructure projects.
- Supervising two large projects of Kazakhstan company for the implementation of electric networks (the reconstruction of the national electric system and the construction of a second transfer line north-south Kazakhstan), financed by foreign and Kazakhstani banks.
- Advising investments managers of mutual investment funds and incorporated investment funds on securities market in Kazakhstan.
- Advising mutual investment funds on investment declarations, investment strategy and investment managers limits. Drafting and advising on internal documents
- Advising investment managers of pension funds on internal documents (soft dollar arrangements, risk management policy, pension investment decision making, code of ethics, job descriptions).
- Completing due diligence of a Kazakhstani bank as seller in an asset sale.
- Completing due diligence of an Uzbek bank with regard to its purchase.
- Providing legal advise to the International Bank of Azerbaijan for a crediting project in the agricultural sector.
- Advising regarding derivative transactions under an ISDA contract.
- Preparing rules for micro credit operations for UNDP.
- Preparing documents for the regulation and assignment of shares in Georgia.
- Participating in the preparation of an external cross-border loan with a Dutch SPV.
- Advising on different legal issues regarding the provision of syndicated loans in Uzbekistan.
- Initiating litigation proceedings for acknowledging pledge contracts and loan contracts in a credited party suit against the rehabilitation fund of a Kazakhstani bank (the dispute was won, the claim was sustained and the court of appeal supported the decree of the court of primary jurisdiction).