Food industry
We advise and support major trade companies and agro-industrial holdings on a wide array of matters, including wholesale business. Our representative projects in this sector include the following:
- Comprehensive legal and judicial support of major shareholders of a large food holding in connection with hostile takeover attempt
- Representation of a subsidiary of the world’s biggest dairy company in order to dismiss the investigation into anticompetitive concerted practices. In the course of the project implementation, Sayat Zholshy & Partners not only put forward solid arguments under antitrust law, but also formulated the behaviour of the respective departments of the Client in their dealings with antitrust authorities, and prepared/delivered the required information
- Representation of one of the biggest domestic vegetable oil manufacturers in connection with the appeal against the findings of a preliminary investigation performed by the antitrust authority based on which they brought charges of anticompetitive concerted practices
- Challenging in administrative proceedings the findings of a preliminary investigation with regard to an alleged violation of antitrust legislation and execution of a vertical anticompetitive agreement by a company dominating in the Kazakhstan tea wholesale market
- Appealing against various taxes assessment by tax authorities as a result of tax audit of the largest Russian alcohol company and its distributors
- Legal due diligence of a number of grain collecting stations in the East-Kazakhstan Oblast with the view of their acquisition
- Representation of a major food producer in pre-court examination of a dispute with the Kazakhstan antitrust authority
- Representation of one of the biggest food companies in connection with its dispute with a general contractor regarding the breach of a construction contract
- Representation of a major food producer in court with regard to its dispute with a second-tier bank on the recovery of 0.8 mln US dollar guarantee issued by the bank as security for performance of the counteragent’s obligations
- Representation of a leading Kazakhstan food holding in challenging the assessment of additional taxes and other obligatory payments to the budget by tax authorities
- Challenging in the superior tax authorities, on behalf of a major Kazakhstan food holding, the assessment of taxes and other obligatory payments to the budget by regional tax authorities
- Our partners’ participation in the board of directors of a large food and transportation corporation in the capacity of independent directors in order to protect the interests of the corporation’s shareholders
