The London office of Fieldfisher is home to a dedicated emerging markets team that brings together finance, corporate, capital markets, regulatory and disputes expertise. ‘An absolutely stellar firm with real expertise across a wide range of disciplines’, say clients. The firm advised the Kazakh sovereign wealth fund on the IPO of the country’s national air carrier. Project and asset finance partner Matt Hinxman, corporate and energy partner Nodir Sidikov, and head of the Africa desk Cecily Davis lead the group, which also calls on the skills of commercial crime specialist Quinton Newcomb, CIS corporate lawyer Anastasiya Kapustina and many others.
Testimonials
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‘The team we have worked with at Fieldfisher have proven to be experts who are highly experienced across various practice areas (such as oil and gas, capital markets, commercial contracts, antitrust, dispute resolution and finance). They continue to impress us with the excellence and efficiency with which they handle any requests and questions.'
- 'Operation of our business often involves transactions with complex multi-jurisdictional legal aspects, as well as political elements. Nodir Sidikov and his team always provide advice with very practical and outlined deep commercial understanding of the nature of our business and the market we operate in.’
‘Nodir Sidikov is a long term, well respected and well trusted advisor for our company. Nodir often helps us resolve the challenges our business and Kazakhstan as a republic face, he has in-depth historic knowledge and understanding of our business and the feel for balance.'
- 'Anastasiya Kapustina is a senior member in the corporate team, who is a high calibre professional, and has impressed us not once by remaining calm but passionate about our needs and instructions and who is ready to fight our corner but also provides commercial advice.'
- 'Tamara Vasiljeva has an impressive commercial acumen and understanding of our historic business needs, she is always polite, business-minded and pleasant to work with.'
- 'Irina Mikhnova is a knowledgeable and sensible specialist, very approachable and well trusted by our team.'
‘An absolutely stellar firm. Real expertise across a wide range of disciplines. It's a surprise it is not better well known and with greater standing. Developing a strong practice through Daniel Hayward in Africa and the Middle East.’
‘Sonia Morton - a rising star. Starting to do her own advocacy in arbitrations. A fierce tiger in litigation willing to fight to the last argument for her client.’
Key clients
- Africa Finance Corporation
- Amur Minerals Corporation
- Atalaya Mining plc
- Beowulf Mining plc
- CleanTech Lithium plc
- JSC National Company "KazMunayGas"
- JSC "Sovereign Wealth Fund "Samruk-Kazyna"
- Cooperatieve KMG EP UA
- Kcell JSC
- KazAzot JSC
- European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
- Eurasian Resources Group (formerly ENRC)
- KPMG Kazakhstan
- Kodal Minerals plc
- Liberum Capital
- Finstella Limited
- Savannah Resources plc
- SigmaRoc plc
- Trafigura Pte Limited
- Traxys Europe S.A.
Work highlights
- Advised longstanding client JSC NC "KazMunayGas" (KMG) on its acquisition of 100% of the shares of Total E&P Dunga GmbH and ownership rights in the Dunga subsoil use project, respectively, from TotalEnergies EP Danmark A/S.
- Advised Eurasian Resources Group on a long running investigation of ENRC by the UK's Serious Fraud Office concerning allegations of bribery and corruption involving mining contracts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between 2009 and 2012.
- Advised Samruk Kazyna, the Kazakh sovereign wealth fund, on the IPO of its subsidiary Air Astana, the Kazakh national air carrier, on the London Stock Exchange and the Astana International Exchange (AIX).
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Matt Hinxman, Nodir Sidikov, Cecily Davis