Banking

Our lawyers and attorneys-at-law advise many large banks of Kazakhstan, including representative offices of foreign banks.  Our legal assistance includes the advice on regulation and structuring of transactions, management and consolidation of bank assets, establishment of branch network, as well as participation in the development of lending systems and representation of leading banks in connection with their loans restructuring.  Besides, we help our Clients to implement numerous securities and interest transactions.

Experience

• Legal support of operations of a Kazakhstani bank, one of the biggest banks in the CIS, in connection with its loan projects for the total amount over 200 mln US dollars

• Legal support of operations of a major foreign subsidiary bank in relation to its covenants

• Legal assistance with registration of a foreign bank representative office, including drafting of the required corporate documents

• Issuance of a number of legal opinions regarding Islamic finance transactions for the total amount over 60 mln US dollars on request of an international Islamic finance organization

• Participation in the development of a lending system for agricultural sector of Kazakhstan

• Legal support of a transaction to raise a loan from the International Finance Corporation

• Review of Kyrgyz legislation with regard to the issuance of a sovereign guarantee by the Kyrgyz Republic as a security for the performance of obligations to a Kazakhstan bank

• Advising a number of large power and agricultural companies regarding execution and implementation of bank loan agreements

• Cooperation with a major Kazakhstan bank on a number of projects related to collection and restructuring of troubled loans

• Continuous representation of a major Kazakhstan bank

• Continuous representation of two large Russian banks

• Continuous representation of a leading British subsidiary bank

• Comprehensive legal support of a project for settlement of debt of Kazakhstani investors to a Dutch bank in the amount of about 10 mln US dollars

• Legal support of a Kazakhstan manufacturing enterprise in connection with its 5 mln euro transaction with a Dutch bank

• Rendering legal services to a Kazakhstan bank in connection with the settlement of a dispute with a US financial institution regarding its refusal to contribute cash to the bank’s authorised capital

• Legal support of Clients in the arrangement of bank loans for several billion US dollars

• Legal support of one of the biggest CIS banks in the Republic of Kazakhstan in connection with its loan projects for the total amount over 60 mln US dollars

• Representation of a leading Kazakhstan bank in connection with the restructuring of troubled loans for the total amount over 5 mln US dollars

• Legal support of a foreign subsidiary bank with regard to its covenants

• Issuance of a legal opinion on request of a European bank regarding the corporate status of a borrower under a loan agreement for over 50 mln US dollars

• Issuance of a legal opinion on request of a large Islamic finance corporation regarding the corporate status of a borrower under an Islamic finance agreement for over 25 mln US dollars

• Legal assistance with the registration of a 200 mln US dollar loan from an international financial institution with the Kazakhstan National Bank

• Legal assistance with the re-registration of a foreign currency transaction with the Kazakhstan National Bank due to the change of parties to an agreement for over 150 mln US dollars

• Establishment of one of the largest microcredit institutions in Kazakhstan