Aselle Djumabaeva-Wood > Hamlins LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Hamlins LLP
1 Kingsway
London
WC2B 6AN
England

Work Department

Real Estate Finance.

Position

Aselle is a Partner in the Corporate Team and the Real Estate Finance Team.

Aselle has a corporate law background and specialises in corporate acquisition and real estate finance. She acts for banks and property investors in corporate transactions and secured lending transactions, drafts and negotiates corporate documents, facility agreements and security packages to facilitate a range of high value investment and development transactions.

Clients like Aselle’s ability of managing complicated transactions effectively and achieving results in timely manner and to the clients’ satisfaction.

Aselle is a Russian speaking solicitor qualified in both England & Wales and the CIS.

Career

Between 1994 and 2002, she practised law in the Kyrgyz Republic working as a lawyer in private practice, she was a legal advisor to the Mayor of Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan’s capital) and visiting lecturer at Bishkek University. In 1999, she established her own law firm in Bishkek. Her firm was retained by a number of multinational companies, charities and a major European government to advise on their operations in Kyrgyzstan. She was one of the authors of the Commentaries to the Civil Code of the Kyrgyz Republic.

Aselle trained with a London firm of solicitors, was admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in England and Wales in 2007 and joined Hamlins in 2009.

Languages

Russian

Education

Aselle studied law at Moscow’s Lomonosov University and the Kyrgyz State University before graduating in 1994. The first Kyrgyz lawyer to qualify as an English solicitor, Aselle obtained a Diploma in English Law from BPP Law School in London in 2004, an LPC Diploma from the same school in 2005 and an LLM in Tax Law from Queen Mary and Westfield College (University of London) in 2008.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Real estate > Property finance

Hamlins LLP ‘punch above their weight’ in real estate finance of development and investment property, and has a strong focus on student accommodation, hotel developments, high-end residential developments and apartment complexes. Aselle Djumabaeva-Wood is an ‘excellent lawyer’ who specialises in secured lending for real estate and corporate acquisition transactions.

London > Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m

Steered by corporate finance expert Aselle Djumabaeva-Wood, the team at Hamlins LLP is regularly engaged by entrepreneurs, SMEs and large corporates across a range of sectors. The practice is well regarded for its expertise in the technology and media arenas, in particular. Roger Pointon – who joined the team as a consultant from Hill Dickinson LLP – brings more than 20 years of experience acting on acquisitions, management buy-ins and mergers. Richard Britain left the firm for an in-house role in October 2022.