Sectors

Electricity and Infrastructure

Description Experience

Electricity and Infrastructure

Our lawyers provide full services to electric power companies (electric power stations, plants, etc.) and to infrastructure companies (road construction companies, gas companies and others).

We have been primarily providing full legal support on project financing deals in the area of electric power industry and infrastructure, rendering legal opinions, conducting good standing checks, assisting with licensing and permissions, employment law, environmental and other legal matters.

Service includes the following directions

Contracts and business law
Corporate law
M & A
Taxes
Dispute resolution and litigation
State authorization system and environmental protection
Labor issues
Corporate Investigations

"SIGNUM law firm advises a number of well-known international clients on environmental protection, subsoil use, taxation, debt collection, competition law or compliance issues."

Legal 500 Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia, 2016

Experience

Наша группа состоит из партнеров, юристов и других экспертов, имеющих солидный опыт, западное образование и внушительный список завершенных сделок слияний и поглощений в Казахстане. В комплексных сделках группе по сделкам слияний и поглощений оказывают содействие юристы по другим вопросам (налоговые, трудовые, а также вопросы предпринимательского права).

Contracts and Business Law

Legal consulting with a major South Kazakhstani uranium mining company on change of land category and its designation as well as land reservation for solar plant construction;
Deal structuring and general legal consulting in relation to sale of an electrical energy complex by Almaty local executive body to a Kazakhstani investor;
Drafting a pipeline construction contract on a “turnkey basis” based on a standard International Federation of Civil Engineers (FIDIC) contract for a major West Kazakhstani oil-producing company;
Legal advice for American investment fund on completion of Southeast Kazakhstani hydroelectric power station construction;
Legal counselling of a major uranium company with respect to contractual commitment with general contractor on processing plant and adjacent infrastructure construction in Kazakhstan;
Deal structuring of construction material plant acquisition (legal support included transaction document drafting and obtaining regulatory approvals);
Representing a construction material producer in registration of land rights for dead-end track in Almaty Region.

Corporate

Legal due diligence of a major Kazakhstani road building company for a potential joint venture with a European construction concern.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Full legal support of the Kazakhstani executive body in the acquisition of a major power complex from a European energy company;
Consulting a Caspian Pipeline Consortium (“CPC”) member on potential sale of its participating interest;
Legal due diligence of a major Kazakhstani road-building company for a potential joint venture with a European construction concern;
Legal due diligence of an electric and energy producing East Kazakhstani company for reconstruction project financing by a major European bank.

Tax

Consulting numerous investment funds on Kazakhstani electricity pricing matters;
Due diligence of a hydroelectric power station-owning company for its further co-financing by an international private fund.
Tax due diligence of an East Kazakhstani thermal power station for reconstruction project financing by a major European bank;
Legal due diligence of an electric and energy producing East Kazakhstani company for reconstruction project financing by a major European bank;
Legal advice for mobile operator with tax planning and optimization and tax preference obtainment pursuant to the terms of an investment project.

Regulatory Compliance and Environment

Legal advice for an oil and gas company on the tender process for gas turbine power station construction, followed by subsequent assistance with tender organization and execution, as well as preparation and finalization of contractual arrangements;
Consulting Chinese technology companies on statutory rules and requirements for renewable energy sources in Kazakhstan;
Setting up a consortium between an Asian engineering company and a Kazakhstani construction company for gas turbine power station design and construction tender participation purposes;
Deal structuring of construction material plant acquisition (legal support included transaction document drafting and obtaining regulatory approvals);
Legal advice for an offshore contractor on all permissive documentation for construction of artificial island and camp on the Caspian Sea;
Full legal support in obtaining various licenses for a major European company for construction of the pipeline in Kazakhstan from the field to CPF and further;
Full legal support in obtaining various permissive documentation and necessary programs for a major construction company;
Representing an oil company in land plot acquisition for an operational base in Aktobe Region (legal support included consulting on transaction documents and obtaining regulatory approvals);
Legal consulting with a major South Kazakhstani uranium-mining company on change of land category and its designation as well as land reservation for solar plant construction.

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