Suleimenov Maidan Kuntuarovich

Last position: Director of the Research Institute of Private Law of Caspian University

Date of birth: 30.09.1941

Place of birth: KazSSR, Alma-Ata

Languages: Kazakh, Russian, English

Education, specialty (qualification), licenses: S.M. Kirov Kazakh State University, with honors (1959-1963)

Lawyer

Academic titles, degrees, activities:

Candidate of Law, thesis: “Responsibility for delay in performance of contractual obligations” (1966);

Doctor of law, thesis: “The structure of contractual relations in the national economy of USSR” (1980);

Professor of Civil Law (since 1985);

Corresponding Member (1994), Academician of NAS of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2003);

Academician of the Academy of European law (Budapest, 2000);

He participated in the preparation and conclusion of a number of international agreements on economic relations, in particular, he headed the Kazakhstan group at the negotiations on the Energy Charter Treaty in Brussels (1993-2004), he was a legal adviser to the Government of Kazakhstan on oil contracts;

He represented the interests of the Government of Kazakhstan, foreign and Kazakh enterprises and organizations in international disputes. He has acted several times as an expert on Kazakhstan law in judicial and arbitration proceedings in London, Washington, Stockholm, Houston and Calgary.

As the leader of working groups, he participated in the development of more than 70 laws, including the Constitution of RK, Civil Code, Housing Code, laws on property, privatization, public enterprise, LLP, business partnerships, on oil, arbitration courts, international commercial arbitration, foreign investment, on land, on subsoil, on state property, the Model Civil Code of CIS, Model laws for CIS countries on joint-stock companies, societies with limited liability, mortgage, bankruptcy, securities, etc.

He prepared more than 40 Candidates of Law, 5 Doctors of Law.

Karagussov Farhad Sergeyevich

Last position: Chief Researcher of the Research Institute of Private Law of Caspian University

Date of birth: 29.06.1971

Place of birth: KazSSR; Alma-Ata

Languages: Russian, English

Education, specialty (qualification), licenses:

* Al-Farabi Kazakh State National University (1993)

Lawyer

Academic titles, degrees, activities:

* Professor of Law (2010)

· PhD thesis: “The legal regulation of securities in the Republic of Kazakhstan” (February 24, 1995, Institute of State and Law of NAS RK)

* Doctor of Law, thesis topic: “Securities and money in the system of civil rights” (27 December 2002, KazSLU)

Work experience:

* Researcher, Acting Head of the Department of the Institute of State and Law of the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan (1993-1996);

* Leading researcher of RDE of Private Law (1996);

· Senior expert, Head of sector of the Department of law of administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1996-1997);

* President of SF “Institute of financial markets” (1997-1998);

* Lawyer of the Almaty office of the international law firm “Kuder Brothers” (1998-2000);

* Advisor to the Chairman of the Board, Director of the Legal Department, Managing Director of JSC “Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan” (2000-2006);

* Adviser to “Baker & McKenzie” (2006-2007));

* Chief legal adviser, compliance controller, JSC “Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan” (2007-2009);

* Professor of the Department of Private Law of Caspian Public University (since 2008);

· Deputy Chairman of the Board of JSC “BTA Bank”

* Chief researcher at the Institute of Private Law of Caspian University (since 2014)

Other positions:

* Member of the Editorial Board of the legal journal “Review of Central and East European Law” and the journal “LAWYER” (Kazakhstan) (since 2006)

* Member of the Group of International Experts on preparation of model laws “On securities market” and “On joint stock companies” for the CIS countries (since 1998)

* Member of the Group of International Experts on the model draft of Labor Code (under the auspices of the CIS Centre for Private Law, Bremen and Leiden Universities) (since 1998)

· Leading expert in preparation of the review of the model legislation for the CIS countries “On bank insolvency” (2004-2005)

* Member of the Expert Council on legal sciences of MES of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2003 -2004)

· Arbitrator of Kazakhstani International Arbitrage

* Member of the Dissertation Council for the defense of dissertations for the degree of doctor of law at KazSLU (since 2003)

* Member of International Academy of Comparative Law (since 2013)

* Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of JSC “Tsesnabank” (since 2014)

National and international awards, prizes, honorary titles:

* Order “Kurmet” (2008);

· Medal

Scientific, literary works, publications:

* Author of the books “Legal regulation of securities in the Republic of Kazakhstan” (1995), “Transactions with securities in the Republic of Kazakhstan” (1995, co-authored with), “Investment funds: questions and answers” (1996, co-authored with), “Registrars and nominee holders in the securities market” (1997, co-authored with), “Investment advisors in the securities market of Kazakhstan” (1998, co-authored with), “Non-state debt securities in the Republic of Kazakhstan” (2000), “Securities and money in the system of objects of civil rights” (2002), more than 80 scientific works.