AEQUITAS, a Kazakh national law firm, was founded in 1993. One of the persons to found AEQUITAS was Professor Yuri G. Bassin, Doctor of Law, a forefather of civil law science in Kazakhstan. AEQUITAS is one of Kazakhstan’s leading law firms acknowledged in the global legal services market. For many years, authoritative legal guides, including Chambers & Partners, Who’s Who Legal, Legal 500, Asialaw Profiles, Best Lawyers and IFLR1000, are rating AEQUITAS and its partners and associates as the country’s most recommended in the Energy & Natural Resources, Corporate & Finance, M&A, Dispute Resolution and other areas. Many publications specifically acclaim the firm’s Labor, Environmental and Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals practice. AEQUITAS’s clients are companies active in the leading sectors of economy from more than 50 countries, including major international corporations, companies representing world famous brands, banks and financial institutions, most of them working with AEQUITAS for years. AEQUITAS experts have been actively participating in the development and improvement of the most important acts of Kazakhstan’s civil and economic legislation, including the Civil Code and such laws of key importance to the country’s economy as the Foreign Investment Law, Petroleum Law, Subsoil Law, Law on International Commercial Arbitration and a number of other regulatory legal acts. The firm’s potential allows providing services to embrace practically all issues its clients may have arising, be it legal support in complex projects, advice on various civil law matters, establishment of new companies, or representation in courts at any level.