Elmira Abdrakhmanova

Elmira brings extensive 20 years experience in legal support for cross-border mergers and acquisitions, structuring international holdings, and evaluating jurisdictions for their attractiveness to private clients. Her expertise encompasses family office structures, holding and sub-holding frameworks, and related areas.

Elmira’s background includes providing legal advising on major financing projects for publicly traded companies. Notable achievements include structuring a syndicated loan transaction exceeding USD 50 million, overseeing a bond issuance project for a Kazakhstani company on the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), managing construction projects of Class A facilities in Kazakhstan, among others.

In addition to her primary focus, Elmira has specialized knowledge in intellectual property law, construction law, development and contract law. She provides daily support to her clients, delivering personalized legal services tailored to their needs.

Elmira has held senior positions and led legal departments within prominent oil and gas companies, hospitality and commercial real estate companies and international holdings. Her client roster includes offices of major global enterprises and local companies.

Legal Areas

• Corporate Law and M&A
• Development & Infrastructure
• Contract & Business Law
• Labour law
• IT&IP

Членство в организациях

• KazBar
• Коалиция корпоративных юристов «Аqiqat» для инициатив по вопросам улучшения корпоративного законодательства в Республике Казахстан

Clients

• International financial holding company
• International company in the field of pesticides and fertilizers production
• Крупная транснациональная компания в секторе FMCG
• Integrational IT-giant
• International Group with diversified businesses
• Large pharmaceutical company with a focus on markets in the USA, Europe, India, Latin America, CIS and Asia
• International tobacco company and many other

Projects

• Legal support for the carve-out project of an international company's division, involving the relocation of offices and production facilities.
• Conducting a legal due diligence of a project of a large foreign company for opening a branch and subsequent construction of the largest medical center for conducting radioisotope research methods in Kazakhstan.
• Conducting a legal due diligence for a major oilfield services company.
• Successful negotiations with a senior executive from a major international company for the termination of an employment contract on the employer's terms and in accordance with legislative requirements of Kazakhstan.
• Preparing of a comprehensive documentation package for data protection within the client's organization, considering existing information systems and assets.
• Analysis of complicated situation arising from shareholder disputes within an international holding company regarding corporate governance; development of a strategy to successfully resolve the issues in favor of the client.

Languages

• Kazakh
• English
• Russian