Biography: Oil and Gas

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Ms Chentsova specialises in civil law, investment, oil and gas, mining and environmental legislation and private international law.

After graduation from the law department of Kazakh State University in 1981 she stayed at the university to teach civil, economic and Roman law. In 1990, she obtained a degree of the Candidate of Science in Law. In 1990-1991, she worked as an adviser at the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan. From 1991 to 1993, she headed the legal department of Kazmetallexport, a state-owned foreign trade company. Since Aequitas establishment in 1993, she has been its managing partner.

For more than 16 years Ms Chentsova has been advising major international oil and mining companies and leading domestic oil companies on the issues of subsoil use, investments and contracts, civil, environmental and corporate legislation, privatisation, litigation and arbitration. Major international banks, financial organisations, telecommunications and other companies are also among her clients.

Ms Chentsova participated in several governmental working groups for development of the important commercial legislative acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan (including the RK Civil Code, Foreign Investment Law, Petroleum Law, etc).

Ms Chentsova is an arbitrator of a number of the Kazakhstan and international arbitration courts.

Ms Chentsova is a member of the International Bar Association (IBA), Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN) and vice president of the Kazakhstan Petroleum Lawyers Association (KPLA).

Ms Chentsova speaks Russian and English.