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Kazakhstan is a key market for many businesses and continues to offer growth and investment opportunities.
Herbert Smith Freehills has a leading practice in Kazakhstan and has for many years served the needs of clients, across a range of sectors, doing business in the Republic. Our Kazakhstan Group supports clients with comprehensive, in-depth knowledge of the Kazakh legal and business environment.
We help our clients, both local and those investing into Kazakhstan, particularly in the energy sector, drawing on our experience negotiating with local interests on major projects. Through our extensive experience of advising on transactions and disputes in and relating to Kazakhstan, we understand how projects are managed in the region and the particular challenges they bring – whether in contentious or transactional matters, in JV matters, in procurement or against contractors.
Our team can work in Russian and English and coordinates activities between our global lawyers and local counsel.
We have advised on some of the largest energy and natural resources projects in the country, including Project Balkhash, Ekibaztus GRES, Tengiz, Karachaganak and the Kashagan oil and gas developments.
We can help you with:
- corporate law
- projects and infrastructure
- construction
- energy
- capital markets
- finance
- dispute resolution
Experience
Balkhash Thermal Power Plant
Balkhash Thermal Power Plant, a project company owned by Samruk-Energy and Samsung, on the construction, development, operation and financing of a 1,320MW coal-fired power plant in Kazakhstan, including EPC and O&M contracts, capacity purchase contract, coal supply contract
BG Group
BG Group on a number of matters in Kazakhstan including the gas sales agreement between KazRosGas and the Karachaganak producers
BP
BP on the disposal of its interest in the Tengiz field and associated interest in the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) pipeline to LUKOIL for US$1.6 billion and on the disposal of part of its interest in the CPC pipeline to KazMunaiGaz
Big Almaty Ring Road
a consortium on the construction and operation of the "Big Almaty Ring Road" in Kazakhstan on a build-transfer-operate basis
Ekibastuz GRES
Ekibastuz GRES in Kazakhstan (a joint venture between Samruk Energy and Inter RAO UES) on the construction of its third energy block, including the preparation and negotiation of an EPC agreement and other project and finance documentation
INPEX
INPEX on the development of the Kashagan field under the North Caspian PSA and the arrangements for cross-Caspian transportation of oil by pipeline and tanker