Today, on September 21, 2022, the GRATA International in Turkey will hold an online webinar on the topic: “Opening a business in Turkey”.

We invite you to visit our free webinar, where we will cover:

• Company establishment;
• Tax and customs issues;
• Residency;
• Obtaining citizenship by investment.

The webinar will be held in English.

Time: 12:00 PM (Istanbul time).

Speaker: Adil Ali Ceylan, Senior Partner of GRATA Turkey.

The webinar will be of interest to foreign entrepreneurs who want to open a company in Turkey.

GRATA International will hold a meeting of the working group at the CCI France-Kazakhstan

On September 23, 2022, a meeting of the working group for members of the CCI France-Kazakhstan will be held.

Topic: "Incoterms and foreign trade agreement".

Time: 10:00 (Almaty time).

The speaker will be the Senior Associate of GRATA International Almaty office - Kamila Urazalina.

Participation in the meeting is free, pre-registration is required at the link.

For additional issues, please contact:  astana@ccifk.kz, direction@ccifk.kz

On September 28, 2022, GRATA Mongolia will host a webinar on starting a business in Mongolia.

Mongolia is a Central Asian country bordering China and Russia.

To this day, Mongolia has trade relations with more than 80 countries in the world. The trade turnover is more than 2 billion US dollars, and more than 40% of it is trade with the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China, and the rest is trade with countries such as Japan, the USA, South Korea, Switzerland.

Mongolia exports goods and raw materials to more than 60 countries in the world. One of the main components of GDP is mining and cashmere production.

During the webinar, we will cover topics such as:

- Legal forms of starting a business in Mongolia;

- Obligations of a non-resident taxpayer;

- Enforcement proceedings of foreign courts decision and arbitral awards.

The speakers will be Bolormaa Volodya - Partner, Buyanjargal Tungalag - Associate, Namuun Ganbileg- Junior Associate.

Time: 11:30 (Ulaanbaatar time).

Who will be interested in the webinar:

-Foreign and local entrepreneurs;

-Foreign investors.

Participation is free.

On September 29, 2022, a conference on Fintech in countries of Eurasia: latest legal developments and major issues, with the participation of GRATA offices in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Moldova will be held.

The conference starts at 11:00 (Moscow time).

The conference will be of interest to fintech companies that would like to enter the markets of Eurasian countries.

Over the past 10 years, the banking sector has experienced a serious tightening requirements. As a result, financial institutions began to lose competition to fintech companies that are not limited by capital requirements. Fintech companies can invest much more actively in technologies and new services; recently they have created services with a significantly larger number of points of interaction with the client than the classic banking business.

The rapid development of modern technologies has stimulated an increase in the need of users of financial services for their digitalization and contributed to the creation of financial technologies. And the creation of financial technologies, in turn, led to the need to develop a legislative framework that regulates their implementation and application.

Language: Russian/English.

Participation is free.

For additional questions, please contact: 📧events@gratanet.com

Welcome to the conference!

New Associate office of GRATA International in Cyprus

GRATA International is pleased to announce that it has reinforced its  international presence with the addition of Nasos A. Kyriakides & Partners as an associate office in Cyprus. 

Established in 2003, Nasos A. Kyriakides & Partners is a leading law firm that has demonstrated consistent year-on-year growth and set standards within the legal industry in Cyprus. 

With a number of highly skilled professionals and market reputation, Nasos A. Kyriakides & Partners will enable clients of GRATA International to receive quality legal advice in Cyprus as well as the many other jurisdictions with GRATA offices . 

GRATA International Kazakhstan will take part in KIOGE 2022

On September 28-29, 2022,  in Almaty, at the InterContinental Almaty Hotel, the 28th Kazakhstan International Oil and Gas Conference (KIOGE) will be held.

The KIOGE conference is one of the largest events in the oil and gas industry of Kazakhstan and the entire Caspian region. Since its inception, the KIOGE exhibition and conference has been held with the support of the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Akimat of Almaty, National Company KazMunayGas JSC, the Union of Service Companies of Kazakhstan and the annual participation of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Kazakhstan and diplomatic missions of the participating countries.

Almat Daumov, Partner of GRATA Almaty will moderate the second session on September 29: Exploration and production: Identification and realization of oil and gas opportunities in Kazakhstan. Almat will also be a speaker in this section with the topic: "Issues of the stability of the legal regime and state policy regarding oil and gas projects in Kazakhstan."

Zaira Sarsenova, Partner of GRATA International Atyrau office will take part as a conference delegate.

More about the event on the KIOGE website: https://kioge.kz/ru/konferentsiya/programma-konferentsii

GRATA International will speak at the International Forum Anticounterfeiting 2022

On September 26-28, 2022, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, the X International Forum: New Challenges - new mechanisms to combat counterfeiting will be held.

Timur Berekmoinov, Counsel  of GRATA International Almaty office will speak on the practice of combating counterfeit products and parallel imports in the Republic of Kazakhstan, where he will address the following issues:

- problematic issues of protection of rights to trademarks in the customs register of intellectual property objects of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

- what are the obstacles bringing violators to justice for the illegal use of trademarks;

 - the latest Kazakh judicial practice related to the infringement of exclusive rights to trademarks.

More information about the event on the website: http://forum-antikontrafakt.ru

Partners of GRATA International Kazakhstan attended the event dedicated to the 30th anniversary of EBRD in Kazakhstan

On September 15, 2022 in Nur-Sultan at the Ritz-Carlton Astana Hotel the event dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development was held.

This year the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) marks the 30th anniversary of the launch of its operations in Kazakhstan. What began as a small representative office in Almaty, the country’s largest city, has become the biggest continuous banking operation for the EBRD in Central Asia, with almost US$ 10 billion invested through nearly 300 projects to date.

Currently, Kazakhstan is one of the Bank’s most important markets. The EBRD has two main offices in Nur-Sultan and Almaty and a network of smaller offices in Aktobe, Karaganda, Kostanay, Shymkent and Ust-Kamenogorsk.

As invited guests, the event was attended by Partners and Directors of GRATA International offices in the cities of Nur-Sultan and Almaty: Samat Daumov and Saule Akhmetova.

GRATA International was presented with a commemorative sign from the EBRD dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the EBRD operations in Kazakhstan.