Parvina Karimova

Parvina Karimova
Overview
Experience

Parvina Karimova is a Senior Associate of GRATA International. Her areas of focus are project finance, banking and finance, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions and international arbitration. She is experienced in banking and finance, corporate law, and antitrust law.

Parvina has assisted in advising multinational financial institutions, commercial banks and international corporations on project financing, cross-border financing, equity investments, subordinated loans, and secured transactions under Uzbek law.

Practices:

  • Corporate Law;
  • Banking and Finance Law;
  • Contract Law;
  • Construction Law.

Education:

  • 2017 – BA in Commercial Law - Westminster International University in Tashkent
  • 2022–LLM-The George Washington University Law School

Languages:

  • Russian
  • English
  • Uzbek
  • Turkish

Publications

  • "Starting a Business", World Bank Group’s Doing Business 2018 report;
  • "Dealing with Construction Permits", World Bank Group’s Doing Business 2018 report;
  • "Registering Property" World Bank Group’s Doing Business 2018 report;
  • "Resolving Insolvency", World Bank Group’s Doing Business 2018 report.

Practice areas

Corporate and M&A

Experience
  • advised a project company on oil and gas project financing for design, construction, operation of a petrochemical plant, provided complex legal advice in relation to conducting its project purposes under the key project documents
  • advised a project company on design, construction, and operation of a thermal power plant on a project financing structure
  • advised a local subsidiary of Islamic financial institution on corporate governance, litigation, and asset finance transactions
  • advised a foreign bank in providing a multi-million-dollar loan facility covered by a sovereign guarantee for the largest state bank of Uzbekistan to finance an investment project on expansion of the backbone and multiservice data transmission network for the largest telecom operator in Uzbekistan
  • advised a foreign bank in providing a multi-million-dollar loan facility to a state-owned commercial bank to finance the purchase and import of thousand ATM machines to Uzbekistan from a foreign supplier
  • advised foreign airports construction company on its planned investment project for modernization and development of regional airports in Uzbekistan
  • advised a leading global tobacco company in its marketing and distribution operations in Uzbekistan as well as setting up a plant for production of tobacco products