Power

We have over 20 years of accumulated knowledge and experience in the legal and regulatory framework of the energy sector.  Our team has represented a considerable number of international power and mining companies in Kazakhstan and provided services in other domains of natural resources management, such as the development of uranium fields.  We render legal advice on numerous issues arising in connection with the acquisition of land and mineral rights, licensing, privatisation, insolvency, foreign trade, as well as commercial & business standards and practices.

• Getting a license from the Kazakhstan National Bank for capital movement-related transactions performed by a global energy leader

• Obtaining a prior consent of the Antitrust Authority to the sale and purchase of an interest in a Kazakhstan company engaged in the operation and maintenance of gas turbines and compressor plants

• Legal support through the process of dissolution of a number of major companies in the power sector

• Issuing a legal opinion on the acquisition of power assets in a CIS country

• Representing a major power company in the court of first instance in connection with the appeal against the claims of the Antitrust Authority who accused the Client of anticompetitive agreements and dominance abuse; due to our successful defence strategy, the Antitrust Authority’s actions and penalties were declared illegal

• Conducting a comprehensive legal due diligence of the Ekibastuz GRES-2 assets, the largest power plant in Kazakhstan generating about 12% of the total electricity output in the country, at the request of a foreign investor, a member of the joint venture operating the Ekibastuz GRES-2

• Providing comprehensive legal support to the Nur-Sultan city energy complex generating and distributing heat and electricity

• Conducting a comprehensive legal due diligence and supporting the Client through the process of selling and buying the assets of an energy complex operating in the Pavlodar Oblast, Republic of Kazakhstan

• Providing comprehensive legal support to the entire Ekibastuz energy complex generating and distributing heat and electricity

• Setting up, structuring and selling a power facility in the Karaganda Oblast, Republic of Kazakhstan, in favour of an Israeli investor

• Providing comprehensive legal support to the entire Zhambyl Oblast energy complex generating and distributing heat and electricity

• Providing comprehensive legal support to a major foreign Fortune 200 power company operating in Kazakhstan

• Providing comprehensive legal support to the entire Atyrau Oblast energy complex generating and distributing heat and electricity