We offer legal support to financial transactions, including cross-border loans, issue and placement of debt and equity financial instruments:
- legal advice in connection with lending/borrowing, issue and placement of securities and other financial instruments
- structuring of financial transactions
- drafting of finance and security agreements (pledges, guarantees, etc.)
- legal support in negotiation of terms and conditions of finance and security agreements
- legal due diligence of borrowers and issuers
- issuing legal opinion on financial transactions
- assistance in preparation of securities offering prospectuses and obtaining of governmental approvals
- Representation of a Chinese bank in a US$ 3 billion loan transaction aimed at acquisition of a Kazakhstani oil company
- Legal support and advice in connection to a US$ 290 million project finance transaction for financing construction of an aluminium plant in Kazakhstan by a Chinese bank
- Representation of a Kazakhstani bank in borrowing of US$ 40 million guaranteed by the US Export-Import Bank
- Representation of a Chinese bank in a finance transaction with a foreign company guaranteed and secured by pledge of receivables of Kazakhstani subsidiaries of the borrower
- Representation of a Kazakhstani manufacturer of childcare products in a complex transaction involving approx. US$ 5 million debt financing from a Chinese investor with subsequent corporate restructuring of the borrower and transformation of the loan into a convertible note
- Representation of a syndicate of European banks in a transaction for financing of acquisition of helicopters by a Kazakhstani air carrier
- Complex due diligence of a Kazakhstani processing company in connection with the proposed financing from the Development Bank of Kazakhstan