Managing Partner, LLM

Nazkhanov
Tair

Advocate, Almaty city
Chairman of the Comission on Protectioin of Advocates’ Rights

30 years
experience

Education and Work Experience

1989	Graduated from Secondary School No. 16 in Almaty.
1989 — 1994	Kazakh State University, Faculty of Philology, Major in Russian Linguistics
1991 — 1997	Kazakh State University, Faculty of Law, Major in Jurisprudence
1995 — 1998	Successfully progressed from being an investigator at a district police department to becoming an investigator for particularly important cases at the central office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
1998 — 1999	Lawyer at AO ‘Alautransgaz’.
1999	Almaty City Bar Association.
2007	Founder of the Public Forum of Lawyers.
2008	The founder of the law firm ‘Nazhanov and Partners’.
2012	Blackstone Institute (Pennsylvania, USA), Civil Procedure, Certificate.
2013	State Department, Training on Organized Crime Combat Techniques (Washington, Nevada, New York, Atlanta, USA), Certificate.
2013 — 2014	Queen Mary University of London, Master’s Program in International Trade Law, Postgraduate Certificate in Law.
2014	International Chamber of Commerce (Paris, France), Arbitration, Certificate.
2014	Birkbeck College (London, UK), English Common Law, Certificate.
2014 — 2016	KIMEP, School of Law, LLM (Master of Laws).

Protection of interests and consultation for entrepreneurs, executives, and accountants during criminal investigations.

Representation of companies’ interests in courts.

The founder of the public forum of lawyers.

Was a sponsor of the publication of a monthly tax bulletin in Russian and English, which was distributed among domestic and foreign companies. The Tax Research Center of Central Asia (hereinafter referred to as the Center) was established at KIMEP. This Center trains capable students in tax law, studies and develops law enforcement practices in this field, and organizes lectures and seminars by leading Western tax lawyers.

Regularly conducts classes at the Internship Center of the Almaty City Bar Association.

The author of dozens of articles on law enforcement practice in the media, regularly participates in television and radio programs on law enforcement practice issues, and writes blogs on youvision and Forbes websites.

An active advocate for introducing the idea of pro-bono, that is, providing charitable legal assistance, into the practice of Kazakhstani lawyers. With his help, from 2008 to 2012, 10,000 consultations on various branches of law were provided for free online on the website he created.

Was the initiator of the creation of the Legal Clinic at KIMEP in 2011 and is a member of its Board of Trustees. Now, KIMEP students have the opportunity to provide free consultations to people with limited financial means.

During 2009-2010, he provided free advice online on the “Karapuz” internet forum.

Participant in legislative activities in the Republic of Kazakhstan. He participated in the development of the draft Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Access to Information Issues”, “On State-Guaranteed Legal Assistance” and the Administrative Code. Elected as a member of the committee of the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2013.

The book “Legal Consultations” was published in a circulation of 5,000 copies and distributed free of charge among libraries and the population.

Member of the Employers’ Council of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, where future lawyers undergo internships in his office and study the basics of legal practice. In 2014, he was awarded the honorary medal “80 Years of Kazakh National University.”

He organized or participated free of charge in dozens of conferences, seminars, and open lectures.

Russian

Kazakh

English

Tair Nazhanov began his professional career in 1995 in the internal affairs agencies, where he successfully progressed from a district police investigator to an investigator for particularly important cases at the central apparatus of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Since 1998, he has represented the interests of AO "Alautransgaz" as a corporate lawyer. In 1999, he joined the Almaty City Bar Association and started his legal practice. In 2008, he founded the law firm "Nazhanov and Partners".

Tair is fluent in English. He is registered by the British Embassy in the Republic of Kazakhstan as an English-speaking lawyer practicing in the country. He collaborates with leading law firms in the UK to explain Kazakhstani legislation to English colleagues and conducts joint projects with them on specific criminal and civil cases.

Additionally, he serves as an arbitrator for the IUS International Arbitration Court and the Kazakhstan International Arbitration Court.

The administrative case against F., the director of a manufacturing company, who was allegedly accused of tax evasion, has been dismissed. The defense presented accounting documents in court that refuted the tax authority’s arguments.

The court denied the lawsuit of neighboring house residents against the client, a construction company. The basis for the lawsuit was the alleged construction of a multi-story residential building without the necessary permits. However, the defendant’s representative presented convincing evidence of the legality of the constructed building.

The court recognized the actions of the officials who allowed the deprivation of D.’s citizenship as illegal. The employees of the justice and migration police authorities unjustifiably refused to issue the client a new passport of a citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In the court session, the lawyers presented evidence that the client had not lost his citizenship of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The interests of the client, a South Korean construction company, were defended in court. The owner of the land plot, after receiving the money from the South Korean company for its purchase, filed a fabricated lawsuit in court to invalidate the transaction in order to avoid obligations. As a result of the lawyer’s well-thought-out strategy, the claim was denied.

The criminal case against G., the vice president of a construction company accused of causing property damage through fraud, was dismissed in the supervisory court. The victim’s arguments were refuted by factual data presented by the defense, and others.

The interests of a network of exchange offices were represented during the preliminary investigation into a series of murders of cash couriers in Almaty.

The interests of the client, a subsoil user, were defended in connection with a lawsuit against him by the former owner of the land plot, seeking to invalidate the transaction. The defendant’s representative presented evidence of the validity of the land sale agreement. The court denied the baseless lawsuit.

The amount of material damage and moral harm caused to A. was recovered in court from a Turkish airline. Ms. A., along with her family of four, flew on the airline to Nairobi for a New Year’s vacation. Fourteen days later, they were unable to return because the airline, despite providing the airline ticket to the client, did not include it in the computer system. In the court session, the lawyer presented evidence of the airline’s misconduct.

Defense of D., the financial director of a railway corporation, in a criminal case. The defendant was accused of embezzling 2.5 billion tenge, tax evasion, and involvement in pseudo-entrepreneurship. She was extradited from Moscow to Almaty and spent a year and a half behind bars. The trial in the first instance court lasted about six months. The defense presented materials totaling ten volumes. As a result, the criminal case under Articles 176, 177, 192, 235 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan was dismissed, and amnesty was applied to the defendant under Article 222 of the Criminal Code.

Criminal prosecution against M., an assistant to the president of one of the country’s banks, has been terminated. The defendant was accused of embezzlement. However, the chosen defense strategy ultimately allowed for the cancellation of the search, the change of the preventive measure from arrest to a written undertaking not to leave, and subsequently the termination of the criminal prosecution due to the absence of a crime.

The court recognized the actions of the employees of the Bostandyk district akimat, who allowed the demolition of the client’s store, as illegal. The lawyer presented title documents for the real estate, registered in the prescribed manner. Therefore, the demolition without providing compensation was deemed illegal.

The criminal case against the executives of an international uranium company, who were suspected of evading customs payments and fees, has been dismissed. The lawyer chose a defense strategy that proved the suspicions of the crime were unfounded.

The criminal case against A., a customs inspector accused of abuse of office, ended with dismissal due to the absence of a crime. After six months, the defendant’s arrest was changed to a written undertaking not to leave, and subsequently, the criminal case was dismissed as a result of the defense’s active position.