Focus areas: Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, IP & Technology, Project Finance
Legal 500, EMEA 2022
Salimjon Yusupov is a Partner at Alef Quad. Salimjon has experience working in legal consultancy with an international law firm, in academia, and in private businesses.
Salimjon advises on a wide range of matters, including general corporate, banking & finance, and capital markets. Salimjon’s practice specialises in complex corporate and regulatory work, with a particular focus on M&A, public placements and loans, and renewables, both domestic and cross-border. He acts for a broad range of clients, including banks, arrangers, international financial institutions, sponsors and corporates.
Salimjon also serves as the National Administrator of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition for Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.
PUBLIC FINANCIAL INSTITUTION on a number of sovereign and commercial loans aimed at the implementation of state programs in various sectors of the economy INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT BANK on a number of transactions in relation to financing projects of Uzbek banks and corporates INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK on export credit framework facilities to Uzbek banks with the intention of subsequently entering into individual Export Credit Facility Agreements, covered by various export credit agencies GLOBAL AVIATION COMPANY on issues related to the lease of aircraft to local airlines MULTINATIONAL COMMODITY TRADING COMPANY in connection with pre-export financing of JSC “Almalyk Mining-Metallurgical Complex” CHINESE MAJOR STATE-OWNED COMMERCIAL BANK on the provision of a loan to FE “Qarshi Conch Cement” LLC for the purpose of expansion and modernisation of a clinker and cement-producing plant
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS LIMITED, GPB-FINANCIAL SERVICES LTD, and J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC, as the arrangers and permanent dealers, on the debut sovereign bond offering by the Republic of Uzbekistan CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS LIMITED and J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC, as the Joint Global Coordinators and Joint Bookrunners on the debut corporate international bonds issued by JSCB “Uzbek Industrial and Construction Bank”, the first international bond issued among commercial banks in Uzbekistan CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS, MUFG SECURITIES EMEA plc, NATIXIS, RAIFFEISEN BANK INTERNATIONAL and Managers on debut Reg S / Rule 144a Eurobond offering by JSC “UzAuto Motors”, the first international bond issued among corporate issuers in Uzbekistan CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS, GPB INTERNATIONAL S.A. (Gazprombank), NATIXIS and SMBC Nikko Capital Markets Limited on the debut Reg S / Rule 144a Eurobond offering by JSC “National Bank of Uzbekistan”, Uzbekistan’s largest bank by assets CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS, GAZPROMBANK and MUFG SECURITIES EMEA Plc as the Managers on a Reg S / Rule 144a bond offering by JSC “Uzbekneftegaz”, a state-owned holding company of Uzbekistan’s oil and gas industry
INTERNATIONAL HOTEL MANAGEMENT COMPANY on Uzbek law issues related to entering into a hotel management agreement A MULTINATIONAL TECHNOLOGY CONGLOMERATE on regulatory requirements for issuing virtual currency and processing electronic payments INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION AND FOOD CHAIN COMPANIES on Uzbek law issues related to entering into franchise agreements, trademark licensing and sublicensing agreements, and technical services agreements
OTP BANK PLC, Hungary’s largest commercial bank and one of the largest independent financial service providers in Central and Eastern Europe, on privatization of the state-owned JSCMB “Ipoteka-Bank” CONFIDENTIAL CLIENT on the acquisition of oil and gas assets in Uzbekistan, including a complex due diligence review and advising on Uzbek law matters related to the transaction’s structuring and relevant security instruments INVESTMENT COMPANY in connection with the acquisition of stock in a mobile and fintech company in Uzbekistan, including conducting substantial due diligence and drafting project documentation
OTP BANK PLC, Hungary’s largest commercial bank and one of the largest independent financial service providers in Central and Eastern Europe, on privatization of the state-owned JSCMB “Ipoteka-Bank” CONFIDENTIAL CLIENT on the acquisition of oil and gas assets in Uzbekistan, including a complex due diligence review and advising on Uzbek law matters related to the transaction’s structuring and relevant security instruments INVESTMENT COMPANY in connection with the acquisition of stock in a mobile and fintech company in Uzbekistan, including conducting substantial due diligence and drafting project documentation
PROPARCO, EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT and EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK on the provision of a loan to Tutly Solar, a subsidiary of Total Eren, to develop, construct and operate the 100 MW capacity photovoltaic (PV) plant in Samarkand province EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT AND INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATIONon a loan facility to JSC “Indorama Kokand Fertilizers and Chemicals” and FE “Indorama Agro” LLC. JSC “Kokand Superphosphate Plant” is one of the oldest fertilizer facilities in Uzbekistan & CIS, established in 1935 and acquired by Indorama in June 2019 through a public disinvestment and privatization process. FE “Indorama Agro” LLC is one of the largest cotton farms in Uzbekistan, covering more than 50,000 hectares of land for growing cotton, wheat and other crops
