AEQUITAS

Labor & Employment, Contract Law, Data Protection, Compliance, Healthcare, Medicine & Pharmaceuticals, Banking & Finance, Real Estate, Trade

Partner | HEAD OF AEQUITAS AIFC BRANCH

2024–present AEQUITAS Law Firm – Partner, Head of AEQUITAS AIFC Branch 2023–2024 AEQUITAS Law Firm – Senior Associate, UK Representative 2020–2023 AEQUITAS Law Firm – Senior Associate 2016–2020 AEQUITAS Law Firm – Associate 2014–2016 AEQUITAS Law Firm – Junior Associate 2012–2014 AEQUITAS Law Firm – Paralegal

English, Russian

Kazakhstan Bar Association

Ius Laboris

Astana International Financial Centre (Legal Adviser)

Sino International Professional Advisory Council (SIPAC)

2023 King's College London, Master's Degree in Financial Law, Technology & Data Protection, the United Kingdom. Chevening Scholar. 2016 Central European University, LLM, Hungary 2014 Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, LLM, Kazakhstan (with distinction) 2012 Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, LLB, Kazakhstan (with distinction)

Yekaterina Khamidullina is specializing in dispute resolution, corporate, financial, labor and contract law. She is also highly experienced in advising on the laws of the Astana International Financial Centre, personal data protection, compliance, project financing, real estate, healthcare, and TMT matters. She joined AEQUITAS in 2012 and has been acting as the Head of AEQUITAS AIFC Branch since 2024.

Yekaterina acted as a member of the working group of Kazakhstan Bar Association formed to draft the Law "On Introduction of Amendments into Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Corruption Control Issues" as part of the project "Implementation of a system-based, structured and efficient policy for increasing business integrity and development of corporate management in Kazakhstan in accordance with the OECD standards".

She was a member of the working group on the draft Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Amendments to the Labor Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan". Yekaterina also acted as a respondent for the World Bank's legislation monitoring in the Doing Business ratings.