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We assisted the largest Chinese Mining Company with the first category construction licence and with searching a prospective target to invest in Kazakhstan. Our Experts obtained the consent of the antitrust committee and a mining licence for the Client. We rendered turnkey legal and tax assistance on structuring the investment transaction connected to Kazakhstan zinc deposit – the 5th largest zinc deposit in the world – and on obtaining an EBRD and the Bank of China financing of more than US$100m.
Confidential
A Chinese Mining Company: the Zinc Deposit
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The assistance required obtaining different types of licences for mining activity intended in Kazakhstan. Government authorities had been denying Chinese companies registration and granting licences, which forced our Legal Team to apply more effective legal tools with a good outcome.
The Shalkiya zinc deposit located in Kazakhstan is the world’s 5th largest zinc mine, the works on which is the direct development of the mining sector in the region. The Project will be a significant economic boost in the area as it implies the creation of new jobs, improved human resource capacity, procurement of goods and services, development of infrastructure, increased tax revenues, and a number of partnerships.
Impact & Outcome
Zinc has multiple uses, and construction is the main driver of zinc consumption (46% share). Globally, the zinc market is likely to slide into a period of zinc concentrates supply deficit because of mine closures and reduced production volumes. When the demand goes up, the Project will deliver massive economic value for the Client.
Cases
We advised China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) on all legal issues arising in their construction activity in Kazakhstan.
We rendered a full legal support to a Wolfram Mining Company, engaged in mining operations and producing the highest quality tungsten concentrate, and the production output of its deposit is about 2,238 thousand tonnes of ore a year.
We assisted the largest Chinese Mining Company with the first category construction licence and with searching a prospective target to invest in Kazakhstan.
In this Project, we acted as a legal adviser to the Kazakhstan Project Preparation Fund LLP, which is a sole consultant of the state authorities with respect to PPP projects in Kazakhstan.
Unicase advised the Kazakhstan Ministry of Health and the Public-Private Partnership Advisory Centre (KPPF) on a concession project for the construction and operation of a Multi-Disciplinary Hospital under Sd.
Unicase acted as a legal adviser to the Kazakhstan Project Preparation Fund LLP, which is an exclusive consultant of the state authorities, with respect to the PPP projects monitoring system in Kazakhstan.
We advised EBRD and a European Company on implementation of a Green City Action Plan in the cities of Semey and Ust-Kamenogorsk in the East Kazakhstan region.
The Unicase Team advised EBRD, IFC, the Ministry of Investment, and PPP Centre on the construction and operation of the “Almaty Bypass Road (BAKAD)” project, currently the largest public-private partnership project in Central Asia, US$680-million worth.
We advised EBRD and a European Company on implementation of a Green City Action Plan in the cities of Semey and Ust-Kamenogorsk in the East Kazakhstan region.
Unicase provided the Client with legal advisory services within a pilot project on building and operating a 100-megawatt solar power plant, based on a private bilateral sleeved PPA mechanism. In particular, we provided regulatory support on the Kazakhstan law governing the renewable energy sector, especially on the regulation of bilateral PPAs in Kazakhstan.