Being current on market developments, we advised a Chinese Investment Fund and a Leading Chinese Law Firm on a wide range of subsoil use operations regulatory matters, state approvals, land, and environmental legal issues, to support the Fund in its investments into a large hydrocarbon mine in Kazakhstan. While upstream oil was not an enigma for the client, local legal support was indeed crucial in the first months of the investment, and the Project complexity was in the multidisciplinary nature of the advice provided.