GRATA International

Marina Kahiani is one of the leading partners of GRATA International qualified to advise on Kazakhstani law and AIFC law. Marina focuses her practice on a wide range of finance transactions, including project finance, aircraft finance and capital markets, infrastructure transactions as well as M&A transactions, financial services regulation and workouts and debt restructurings in many industries. Her clients include international finance institutions such as Asian Development Bank (ADB), China Development Bank (CDB), European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Export-Import Bank of the United States, Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), the World Bank; foreign financial institutions such as Bank of China (Hong Kong), the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, MasterCard, UBS, UniCredit Group and major local financial institutions including banks and microfinance organizations.

Marina Kahiani joined GRATA Law Firm as a London representative office in September 2008, relocated to Almaty head office in 2009. Previously Ms. Kahiani worked for two years as a Banker at BTA Bank, International Funding Department. Marina has over 17 years of experience in Kazakhstani legal services market as well as experience in matters dealing with former Soviet Union.

English, Russian

2009 - LL.M. from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 2006 - Kazakh Master Degree with distinction from Kazakh Humanitarian Law University (specialisation - International and European Law), 2004 - Bachelor degree with distinction from Kazakh State Law Academy (specialisation – Civil and Corporate law).