GRATA International will hold the the online meeting of the Legal Working Group at the CCIFK

On May 4, 2022, the online meeting of the Legal Working Group at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry France-Kazakhstan will be held.

Meeting's topic: "Novelty, introduction of the Administrative Procedure Code and six months' results».

Speaker: Zhandarbek Ramazan, Сounsel of GRATA International.

Time: 16:00-17:00 (via Zoom).

Language - Russian.

REGISTRATION to the meeting is available till May 3, 2022 by e-mail astana@ccifk.kz  or by tel: 8 727 354 14 86.

Gulnur Nurkeyeva, Partner of GRATA International China is holding a course on Mergers and Acquisitions

On May 5 - 26 May, 2022, the AIFC Academy of Law jointly with Gulnur Nurkeyeva, GRATA China will represent a course on "Mergers and Acquisitions". This course is designed for lawyers, advocates, in-house lawyers and other professionals whose work involve exposure to common law systems and jurisdictions. 

Format: online (Zoom).

Duration: 6 hours (4 lectures of 1,5 hours).

Language: English.

The course will be an overview of:

- What takes place during M&A process

- The key players of a M&A and the roles they fulfill in the transaction

- The due diligence that is applied by parties that are interested in purchasing a company through M&A.

GRATA International Samara will speak at the X Anniversary International Congress “Orgzdrav-2022

On May 19-20, 2022, the X Anniversary International Congress “Orgzdrav-2022: Effective healthcare  management will be held”.

Orgzdrav unites an audience of more than 10,000 industry leaders. The Congress allows to widely present and discuss proposals on strategic and tactical issues of healthcare development in the Russian Federation.

The most important issues will be discussed during the two days of the congress.

Main topics:

- Russia's national goals and the role of healthcare in the context of the pandemic

- Digital transformation of health care.

The Legal 500 EMEA 2022 rankings have confirmed GRATA International’s role as one of the market leaders in the region

On April 11, 2022, Legal 500, a global legal directory, released its rankings of leading law firms and lawyers in Europe, Middle East and Africa - Legal 500 EMEA 2022.

GRATA International has continued its previous year’s success and secured rankings in in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

The Legal 500 EMEA 2022 rankings have confirmed GRATA International’s role as one of the market leaders in the region.

New Associate office in Armenia

GRATA International is honoured to announce that Rod Kurtman Legal represents GRATA International as an associate office in Armenia. Establishing an office in Armenia is a great convenience for our clients from Armenia, as well as for international clients of the entire network with interests in Armenia.

A professional group of partners, excellent client references, a dynamic team of lawyers providing quality service are the key features of our new associated office in the Republic of Armenia.

The Yerevan office is led by Khoren Nasibyan, who not only has extensive experience in supporting foreign investors, but also has a deep understanding of the local market.

GRATA International Mongolia successfully organized a research paper competition

GRATA International Mongolia successfully organized a research paper competition under the topic - "Legal Methods to attract Foreign Investment" in collaboration with the Mongolian Bar Association (the MBA). 7 research papers were selected for the second round of the competition and were discussed on March 31, 2022.

The papers were judged by Bolormaa Volodya, the Partner and Director of GRATA International Mongolia, Otgonbaatar Chuluun, the Head of the Civil Law Committee of the MBA, Tuvshintsengel Luvsan, the Head of the Economic Law Committee of the MBA, and Jolbars Sh, the Deputy of the Office. Participants raised interesting issues in their papers and the following three were selected as the best:

• "Opportunities to attract foreign investment by improving policy and regulations on land use"
• "Stabilization of legislation regulating foreign investment relations and its significance"
• "Challenges for regulation of the risks of the parties to a concession agreement with a foreign investor in the mining sector"

Thank you to all the participants, judges, and the co-organizer.

Shaimerden Chikanaev, Partner of GRATA International Kazakhstan held a webinar jointly with Bestprofi

On April 11, 2022, a webinar on: The Institute of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in the civil law of Russia and Central Asian countries and the problem of qualifying a PPP agreement was held in cooperation with Bestprofi.

The speaker was Shaimerden Chikanayev, Partner of GRATA International, Almaty office.

Within the framework of this webinar, Shaimerden looked at how PPP is understood in the best world practice, including taking into account harmonization within the framework of UNCITRAL, as well as in the countries of Central Asia and Russia, and also discussed differences in approaches to understanding of such legal concepts as "PPP object" and "public partner" in different countries. Also also made preliminary conclusions on what Kazakhstan can learn from the international best practice for its own PPP state and law policy.

Read more at the speaker's presentation (in Russian).

The recording of the webinar is available via the link (in Russian).