Abai Shaikenov

Banking and Finance, M&A.

Abai is a Managing Partner at Dentons Kazakhstan.

Abai has been actively advising clients in Kazakhstan and across the CIS for more than 20 years. He focuses on M&A and general corporate transactions including cross-border acquisitions and disposals, privatizations, as well as corporate finance transactions. His experience includes advising on the most complex and unique finance and M&A transactions in Kazakhstan such as the financial restructuring of bank RBK as well as sale of the entire capital of JSC SB “RBS (Kazakhstan)” to Mr Igor Kim.

Abai leads Dentons’ Banking and Finance practice in Kazakhstan. He has been the preferred legal counsel to the leading financial institutions and private investment firms in Kazakhstan for many years, including Citibank, Bank of China, ICBC, EBRD, IFC, Verny Capital and ADM Capital. Abai is a regular speaker at conferences and is a contributing author to many local and international legal and business publications.

TransAsional Summer University for international lawyers in Hong-Kong (Duke University, 1998); Kazakh State Legal Institute (Law Degree with honours, 1996).