Aidar Yegeubayev

Managing partner

Aidar Yegeubayev is Founder and Chairman of the Board of Governors at anticorruption fund Transparency International Kazakhstan and arbitrator of Kazakhstan International Arbitrage. Aidar is also member of the Working Group on Asset Recovery within the UNCAC Coalition.

In 1993 Aidar Yegeubayev received full scholarship from the US Information Agency under Future Leaders Exchange Program and graduated from San Antonio High School, Texas. In 1998 he graduated International Law Faculty of Kazakh State Law University and in 2008 received economist's diploma at the Financial Academy of the Government of the Russian Federation. In 2014-2015 Mr. Yegeubayev completed Executive Education advanced courses on difficult negotiations and Master Class at Harvard Negotiations Institute in Cambridge, Massachussets, USA.

Between 1996 and 2013 Aidar Yegeubayev built successful career at UK and US law firms including CMS Cameron McKenna LLP, Bracewell and Baker McKenzie as well as PwC where he was Director leading Kazakhstani law practice and was focused on capital markets, M&A, private equity and assets structuring.

In 2008 Aidar was appointed Managing Director at Kazyna Capital Management, country’s first private equity fund of funds (current name Qazaqstan Investment Corporation) where he lead successful negotiations on establishment of numerous investment funds with major international PE players including EBRD, IFC, IPIC, McQuarrie Renaissance, CITIC Capital Holdings, Cheung Kong Enterprises Holdings Limited, Hong Kong Development Fund, Government of Tajikistan, Government of Kyrgyzstan, etc.

In 2013-2017 Mr. Yegeubayev acted as Vice President at the largest oil drilling holding in Kazakhstan being responsible for strategic legal issues, corporate governance and HR policies.

In 2020 he was selected as international legal expert at the subsidiary of the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Author of the course on Energy & Natural Resources Law and in 2019 became adjunct professor at KIMEP Law School.

Mr. Yegeubayev wrote articles with topics on law, economy and literature.

Selected experience includes:

Over 50 M&A transactions in Kazakhstan and CIS on behalf of international and local investors;

Structuring private equity funds with total commitments up to USD 2,300,000,000;

Leading 13 ECM and DCM transactions by oil & gas companies, banks and other issuers for a total amount of over USD 5,600,000,000;

Structuring advice to quasi-state and UHNI holding structures (Kazmunaigaz Processing Marketing, Astana Group, Aitas, Chagala, etc.) on assets restructurings with multiple jurisdictions;

Due diligence, negotiations and successful acquisition of controlling stake in oil Terminal in Batumi, Georgia on behalf of national oil transportation company KazTransOil;

Advising EBRD on debt & equity investments in telecom, medical and poultry projects in Kazakhstan including security packages and providing legal opinions;

Representing Kazakhstan Government for the first country's EOIR rating by OECD at the Global Forum On Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes in Vaduz, Liechtenstein in 2018.