Atabek Sharipov

Practice Areas

Banking & Finance

Islamic Finance

Aircraft Finance

Corporate law

M&A

Intellectual Property

Publications

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Personal

Atabek is leading GRATA’s banking and project finance practice in Uzbekistan. He focuses on cross-border and secured transactions. He has valid experience of structuring multi-jurisdictional financial transactions, negotiating major terms of foreign law governed financing agreements with the government and local parties, drafting and negotiating domestic law governed project documents for lenders and international investors.

Atabek joined Grata in 2005. He acts for a broad range of financial institutions and foreign investors including development banks, private companies and major financial institutions, private banks and trading firms. He advises on all aspects of Uzbek corporate and foreign exchange laws, cross border financing including secured transactions. Atabek had been involved in multibillion regional project finance deals including under China – Central Asia Gas Pipeline Project for which GRATA was awarded the Best Project Finance Deal of the Year by the ALB Law Awards 2009. Atabek has been consistently praised for his performance in Chambers and Partners 2010 and 2011 editions.

Languages Spoken

English

Russian

Uzbek

Portuguese

Chinese

Experience

Advising a consortium of major foreign lenders on matters of Uzbek law in connection with a cross-border sovereign aircraft financing.

Advising on lending and security transactions and acting for leading Japanese banks under Turkmen and Uzbek law.

Advising Islamic Development Bank on various aspects of Uzbek law in its first Sharia-compliant aircraft financing in Uzbekistan.

Advising a consortium of foreign banks on the structure and enforceability of Uzbek law governed security arrangements in a major US 4.0 billion oil and gas project finance transaction aiming to support upstream and downstream capacity under Surgil Gas Chemicals Project.

Advising a consortium of major Chinese banks in connection with the US 3.5 billion project finance transaction involving construction of the Central Asia Gas Pipeline.

Advising on general regulatory matters of Uzbek law, conducting due diligence check and analysis with respect to target companies, assisting with finance and security structure under the first direct private sector Islamic lending in Uzbekistan with ICD.