ZHAMILYA BILISBEKOVA
Profile
Zhamilya advises on cross-border investments, corporate and finance transactions, with a particular focus on project financing and renewable energy projects. She has been involved in a wide range of high-profile business deals, including complex M&A transactions, venture capital investments, and other major projects. Her work also covers obtaining anti-monopoly clearances. Zhamilya brings a forward-looking perspective to advising clients in fast-evolving industries.
Before joining IMN Law Firm, Zhamilya was associate at an AmLaw100 firm.
Selected Experience*
Corporate, M&A and Finance
- • Acting for an international venture capital firm in relation to investment into fast-growing technology company in AIFC, including drafting of financial instrument.
- • Acting for an international bank in the structuring of an export transaction, including in relation to currency-control regulation.
- • Acting for a Kazakhstan bank in connection with preparation and analysis of documentation with respect to bonds issuance.
- • Acting for an international company in connection with due diligence and successful acquisition of oil producing assets.
- • Share consolidation deals.
- • Acting for an international company in structuring of a transaction and drafting documents for the management and operation of certain restructured agricultural and other assets of a major agricultural company in Kazakhstan.
- • Acting for international company for the purposes of antimonopoly filing.
- • Drafting of transaction documents, including security and corporate documents.
- • Consulting in relation to currency control regulation.
- • Acting for a local company on a potential downsizing and drafting of documents, including settlement and termination agreements.
- • Due diligence of variety Kazakhstan companies for merger and acquisition deals.
- • Acting for a large international organization in relation to project financing deals.
- • Acting for an international catering company on various corporate and labour matters.
Energy
- • Acting for multiple international companies in connection with due diligence and drafting transaction documents in relation to the operation of Kazakhstan energy-producing power plants using renewable energy sources, as well as anti-monopoly clearance.
- • Acting for a large international bank in connection with financing of construction and operation of an energy-producing power plant using renewable energy sources.
*Including experience prior to establishing IMN Law Firm
Areas of Expertise
- • Corporate, including on AIFC regulations
- • Mergers & Acquisitions
- • Finance
- • Renewable energy
Education
- • LL.M., 2017 – University of California, Berkeley School of Law, USA
- • LL.B., 2016 – KIMEP University, Kazakhstan
Admissions
- • Kazakhstan
Career History
- • 2025 – present: IMN Law Firm
- • 2022 – 2025: Private Practice
- • 2017 – 2022: Morgan Lewis
Languages
- • English
- • Russian