Kinstellar LLP

The firm: Kinstellar is a leading independent law firm in emerging Europe, Turkey and Central Asia, with offices in Almaty (Kazakhstan), Belgrade (Serbia), Bratislava (Slovakia), Bucharest (Romania), Budapest (Hungary), Istanbul (Turkey), Kyiv (Ukraine), Prague (the Czech Republic) and Sofia (Bulgaria).

The firm’s office in Almaty was launched in 2013, and has experts working with years of experience assisting leading investors in Kazakhstan and across Central Asia. The team of international and local lawyers, led by a US partner with more than a decade of on-the-ground experience, is highly regarded and widely viewed by leading international law firms as the go-to team in Kazakhstan for complex transactions.

As part of Kinstellar’s seamless cross-border coverage, the Almaty office provides a wide range of legal services and is particularly strong in banking and finance, capital markets, dispute resolution and corporate and M&A.

Kinstellar serves a broad range of leading international and domestic clients active in Kazakhstan and across Central Asia. The firm’s legal experts bring international experience and local knowledge in key sectors of the Kazakh economy such as oil and gas, mining, financial services, infrastructure and telecommunications.

Areas of practice: The firm’s focal areas of practice include banking and finance; competition and state aid; compliance, risk and sensitive investigations; dispute resolution; employment and labour law; energy; infrastructure and projects; M&A and corporate; real estate, construction and planning; restructuring and insolvency and technology, media and telecommunications.