Sectors

Financial Institutions

Financial Institutions

SIGNUM’s lawyers have routinely been advising Kazakhstan and international banks, investment funds and banks, development banks, insurance and leasing and credit organizations, primarily providing full legal support of project financing deals, rendering legal opinions for transactions, good standing checks and other Kazakhstan law matters.

Service includes the following directions
  • Contracts and Business Law
  • Corporate
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Tax
  • Dispute Resolution and litigation
  • Regulatory Compliance and Environment
  • Employment and Labour
  • Corporate Investigations
Команда SIGNUM Law Firm фокусируется на сделках по проектному и долговому финансированию. Отмечена Лиза Жумахметова.
The Legal 500, Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia, 2018

Опыт

Contracts and Business Law
  • Legal opinion on the EBRD loan for a beverage company in Kazakhstan;
  • Legal advice for foreign insurance company on reinsurance issues (limited recourse clause);
  • Legal advice for one of the major banks in Kazakhstan on insurance and reinsurance issues.
Corporate
  • Structuring and incorporation of a fund for allocation and distribution of social payments of large mining company;
  • Advice on establishing company in Kazakhstan – subsidiary of the international insurance company; pre-incorporation advice on local tax issues and regulatory compliance.
Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Legal advice for EBRD on the 18.5 million project loan provided to Kazakhstan-based member of international group of malt-manufacturing companies.
Tax
  • Advice on establishing company in Kazakhstan – subsidiary of the international insurance company; pre-incorporation advice on local tax issues and regulatory compliance;
  • Legal advice for the local insurance company on the taxation of the insurance premiums.
Dispute Resolution and litigation
  • Representing Kazakhstani insurance company in courts on the matter of insurance license withdrawal;
  • Litigation: representing the client in court case against one of the largest Kazakhstani second-tier banks on the enforcement of its guarantee, issued as collateral for the fulfilment of the obligations of the contractor. As a result of court proceedings, the court obliged the bank to pay the client the amount of the collateral (more than USD 700,000);
  • Representing local insurance company in courts on the matter of insurance license withdrawal;
  • Business issue legal support of European insurance company on employment and litigation issues.
Regulatory Compliance and Environment
  • Contributed to legal survey of the World Bank for the “Investing Across Borders 2010” report and online database (http://www.investingacrossborders.org) and were granted Certificates of Appreciation;
  • Representing the Kazakhstan insurance company in courts on the matter of insurance license withdrawal.
Employment and Labour
  • Full business issue legal support of European insurance company on employment disputes and litigation issues in Kazakhstan.
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