Zhandarbek Ramazan
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Zhandarbek Ramazan is a Partner and Co-Director of the Litigation Department at GRATA International, Kazakhstan. Zhandarbek has over 12 years of experience as a judge of the Specialised Interdistrict Economic Court of Almaty city, where he addressed the most complex commercial, corporate, construction, tax and environmental disputes. In addition, Zhandarbek represented clients in courts of general jurisdiction, arbitration courts, and in arbitration proceedings. Zhandarbek is an expert in tax and customs disputes. He chaired the hearing of a huge number of disputes in various categories of civil law relations, issue of many judicial acts, and thousands of hours of other court hearings. At GRATA International, Zhandarbek handles disputes of any complexity to potently protect our clients’ interests.
Practice Areas:
- Litigation
Sectors:
- Commercial Litigation,
- International and Domestic Arbitration,
- Tax, Customs and Environmental Disputes.
Education:
- 2004 - LLB, Pavlodar State University
- 2008 - Judicial Work Preparation Course, Russian Academy of Justice at the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, Moscow.
- 2009 - LLM, Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
- 2017 - Judicial Training Course of the Law Society of England and Wales, including Legal English Course. The City Law School, London, UK.
Languages:
- Kazakh
- Russian
- English
- Turkish
Practice areas
Dispute Resolution
Experience
- Settlement of disputes in the area of corporate law to challenge the decisions of the governing bodies of JSCs and LLPs, challenge transactions, etc.;
- Consideration of an environmental dispute on compensation for the environmental damage caused by subsoil users and other environmental regulation subjects;
- Addressing the case on the demolition of buildings under the claims of local executive authorities and the prosecutor's office and the seizure of undeveloped and squatter land plots in favour of the state land fund;
- Collection of debts worth billions of tenge, appointment of forensic-construction, merchandising, forensic-economic, forensic-technical and other inspections, sending letters of request to the competent courts of foreign states, recognition and enforcement of foreign court decisions;
- Challenging notices of additional charge of taxes and obligatory payments to the budget. Making decisions for the benefit of both the state and a taxpayer (applicant), some of them were thoroughly discussed in the media and social networks;
- Administration of cases for bankruptcy and rehabilitation, including accelerated rehabilitation, restoration, and liquidation procedure.
