Sayat Zholshy & Partners

Founded in 1998, Sayat Zholshy & Partners is a full-service corporate law firm with offices in Almaty and Astana. It comprises seven partners, two counsels and over 20 associates.

Focusses / specialisms

The firm is active in banking and finance, corporate and M&A and project development. In corporate and M&A it advises purchasers and sellers on acquisitions and joint ventures.

Key clients

Among its clients are Freedom Finance, Arasan Firm, Almaty Orchards, RG Brands, PPG Industries, Purmo Group, Tartyp Join Stock Company, PM Lucas Enterprises, TengizTransGaz and Alautransservice, CAIH Power, KMG Engineering and PSN KazStroy.

Client feedback: 32nd edition (2022/2023)

M&A

"Sayat Zholshy & Partners team is highly professional. From our point of view, their key advantages are the impeccable knowledge of Kazakhstan law, clear-eyed understanding of client’s needs, client-tailored approach, responsiveness to client’s requests, and profound knowledge of specifics of doing business in Kazakhstan.

Among other things, Sayat Zholshy & Partners helped identify certain risks that we used to ignore and advised how to eliminate/mitigate such risks, thus ensuring that we avoid many problems."