| Taking its cue from White & Case and Dentons, Reed Smith is the third international firm to open an office in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana, as of 21st January 2014. International arbitration partner, Belinda Paisley will lead the office remotely from the London office and two partners, Vladimir Shuster and Arman Tastanbekov (formerly partners at Dewey & LeBoeuf) will be the resident partners on the ground.
Shuster and Tastanbekov specialise in commercial and corporate transactions with a focus on M&A, energy and natural resources, banking, private equity and capital markets. The driver behind the office launch, according to Paisley, was heightened demand for advice in the “energy and natural resource sectors,” these “being the … important rationales” behind the opening, as well as a need for “on the ground transactional advice.” |
Reed Smith launches its first presence in Central Asia
