Olympex Advisers LLP

OLYMPEX ADVISERS LLP established in 2006 is the one of the leading consulting firms and has been successfully operating in the Kazakhstan consulting market for over 20 years. Over this period, the company has formed a professional team and gained a reputation as a reliable and responsible partner providing a wide range of services at the highest level. Also, our firm registered in Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) and has a license to provide consulting and legal services to AIFC participants within its territory.
OLYMPEX ADVISERS cooperates with clients from the private, public and non-public sectors to identify their most valuable opportunities and solve critical problems. For the entire practice period OLYMPEX ADVISERS has developed its own philosophy towards business.
OLYMPEX ADVISERS helps clients to solve the most difficult tasks by making non-standard solutions, allowing organizations to grow, creating competitive advantages, and ensuring positive outcomes.

Areas of practice

Subsoil use:
- support in the development and approval of legislative acts related to subsoil use;
- development and support of the procedure for negotiating addenda to subsoil use contracts;
- consulting on the practical applications of legislation related subsoil use.

Tax Consulting:
- tax consulting, including international taxation and transfer pricing;
- preparation of tax accounting for a tax audit;
- support of a tax audit;
- tax audit services;
- support in amendments to tax legislation;
- development/updating of tax accounting policy;
- transfer pricing.

Out-of-court and in-court consulting:
- representation and protection of Client’s interests in out-of-court and in-court procedures on tax (including transfer pricing), customs, and environmental disputes, on disputes arising from the obligations of subsoil use contracts, on commercial and arbitration disputes, on appeal against decisions of authorized state bodies, including protocol resolutions of the Ministries of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
- full legal support for Clients in authorized state bodies, in all courts of the Republic of Kazakhstan, including in specialized investment chambers under the court of Astana and the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan, including:
• appeal against taken measures of security and recovery consulting on appealing administrative proceedings
• consulting within the framework of enforcement proceedings (including on issues of deferral of court decisions / execution of court decisions in parts), etc.
• in arbitration proceedings, etc.

Project and financial analysis:
- analysis of financial and economic activities of a company and development of recommendations in terms of increasing the company’s economic efficiency;
- financial and economic modeling of projects and development of business plans; development of legislative amendments and draft regulatory legal acts, as well as preparation of the necessary financial and economic feasibility studies and calculations;
- marketing review for the project in question; Tax modeling (calculating the tax burden, including long-term forecasting and assessing the impact on the company’s performance);
- financial modeling (development of business plans and financial and economic models of investment projects)

Corporate governance:
- analysis of the results of the work of the Board of Directors and its committees;
- development of recommendations and a plan for the development and improvement corporate secretary;
- assessment of readiness and assistance in building corporate governance during an IPO;
- building corporate governance to effectively monitor and control hired management;
- development internal corporate documents;
- comprehensive consulting on information disclosure and increasing business transparency

Legal support of transactions:
- legal due diligence;
- support of mergers and acquisitions;
- legal support in the process of transferring assets of quasi-public sector companies to a competitive environment;
- consulting and preparation of various types of legal opinions
Law-making: OLYMPEX ADVISERS has unique experience in the development and legal support of draft laws and other regulatory legal acts in various sectors of the economy

International taxing services:
- transactions between a non-resident and a tax agent;
- advice on tax benefits under international agreement;
- advice on deduction (branch, representative office) of head office expenses;
- Advice on compliance with the Tax Code requirements for non-resident residence certificates;
- Conduct of a tax audit on international taxation;
- Support of non-residents in the tax authorities of Kazakhstan on obtaining information from government databases;
- Appeal of notices based on the tax audit on international taxation;
- Conduct of corporate training workshops on international taxation.

Auditing and accounting services:
- conducting an audit of financial statements;
- internal audit and special purpose audit for quasi-public sector entities, as well as audit of expenses of subsurface users;
- related services, including accounting policy development, tax audit, business process audit and quality control systems;
- due diligence and financial expertise;
- maintaining primary documentation;
- payroll and personnel records;
- preparation and submission of tax and statistical reports;
- formation of financial statements;
- universal declaration;
- registration, re-registration and closure of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs;
- restoration of accounting and tax accounting;
- consulting and training on accounting and tax accounting;

Invest consult:
- representation of investor interests;
- opening and registration of a business within the framework of investment projects;
- support of registration on specialized platforms;
- preparation of investment contracts, public private partnership agreements, concession agreements, EPC contracts;
- client business/product analysis;
- risk analysis of an investment project;
- assessment of legal and tax risks;
- obtaining benefits and preferences for the Client.

Provision of consulting and legal services in the Astana International Financial Center:
- support for registration of companies of various organizational and legal forms;
- support of procedures for obtaining licenses for regulated activities;
- support of transactions on the acquisition of companies in the AIFC and transactions regulated by the AIFC law;
- representation of interests in the AIFC Court and Arbitration Center;
- advising on issues related to AIFC law;
- preparation of certificates/legal opinions on the impact of sanctions and due diligence in relation to individuals and legal entities.