Dentons

Banking and Finance, M&A

Abai is the Managing Partner at Dentons Kazakhstan.

He has been actively advising clients in Kazakhstan and across the CIS for more than 25 years. He focuses on complex M&A and corporate transactions, including cross-border acquisitions and disposals, as well as the diverse finance transactions. His experience includes advising on the most complex and unique M&A and financing transactions in Kazakhstan.

Abai 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, KAZ Minerals and ERG.

Abai is a regular speaker at conferences and is a contributing author to many local and international legal and business publications.

Managing Partner - Dentons, Almaty, 2022-up to date

Partner - Dentons (formerly Salans), Almaty, 2005-2021

Senior Associate - Salans, Almaty, 2000-2005

Associate, Salans, Almaty, 1999-2000

Junior Associate, Salans, Almaty, 1996-1999

English, Kazakh, Russian

Kazakhstan Bar Association

Board of Directors of EUROBAK

Duke University, 1998, Transactional Summer University for international lawyers in Hong Kong

Kazakh State Legal Institute, 1996, Law Degree, with Honours