Ismail Askerov

Ismail is the Senior Partner of MGB Law Offices with over 28 years of experience in energy, corporate, project finance, and aircraft finance. He has been representing oil and gas corporations, export credit agencies and international financial institutions (such as ADB, EBRD and IFC) on cross border financing and high-profile M&A projects. His experience also extends to advising consortium of international and investment banks in downstream financing in connection with a multi-million facility for the development, construction of a major refinery in Turkey (“Project Star”) as well as syndicated finance of the foreign lenders on the well-known BTC pipeline project. He has been regularly advising oil and gas service companies on production sharing agreements, creation of joint venture companies and strategic alliances with Azerbaijani companies. Ismail has also extensively assisted his multinational clients on various legal matters including renewables related to two major pilot projects in wind and solar sectors. For many years he has been providing practical regulatory advice in heavily regulated industries, such as oil and gas, alternative energy, aviation and pharmaceuticals. Ismail is Leading Lawyer and highly recommended by Legal 500, IFLR and Chambers Global. · MGB Law Offices

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Ismail Askerov is Senior Partner of MGB Law Offices with over 28 years' experience advising on energy, corporate, project and aircraft finance matters. He represents oil and gas corporations, export credit agencies and international financial institutions (ADB, EBRD, IFC) on cross-border financings and high-profile M&A and infrastructure projects (including Project Star and the BTC pipeline) and provides regulatory advice in heavily regulated industries; he is a Leading Lawyer highly recommended by Legal 500, IFLR and Chambers Global.

Practice areas

Oil & GasEnergyRenewablesCorporate / M&AProject FinanceBanking & FinanceAviationAircraft Finance

Office

Azerbaijan

MGB Law Offices · Ismail is the Senior Partner of MGB Law Offices with over 28 years of experience in energy, corporate, project finance, and aircraft finance. He has been representing oil and gas corporations, export credit agencies and international financial institutions (such as ADB, EBRD and IFC) on cross border financing and high-profile M&A projects. His experience also extends to advising consortium of international and investment banks in downstream financing in connection with a multi-million facility for the development, construction of a major refinery in Turkey (“Project Star”) as well as syndicated finance of the foreign lenders on the well-known BTC pipeline project. He has been regularly advising oil and gas service companies on production sharing agreements, creation of joint venture companies and strategic alliances with Azerbaijani companies. Ismail has also extensively assisted his multinational clients on various legal matters including renewables related to two major pilot projects in wind and solar sectors. For many years he has been providing practical regulatory advice in heavily regulated industries, such as oil and gas, alternative energy, aviation and pharmaceuticals. Ismail is Leading Lawyer and highly recommended by Legal 500, IFLR and Chambers Global.

Azerbaijan

Expertise

Oil and gas transactionsExport credit agency financingsInternational financial institutions (ADB, EBRD, IFC)Downstream/refinery project finance (Project Star)BTC pipeline syndicated financeProduction sharing agreementsJoint ventures and strategic alliancesAircraft financeRenewables (wind and solar pilot projects)

Education

Diploma in Law, Academy of Economics, Finance and Law (VKIMO), 1989
Academic Study in Law (LLM), Centre for Commercial Law Studies, University of London, 1994

Admissions

Collegium of Advocates of the Republic of Azerbaijan (entitled to appear before the Supreme Court), since 2004
Member, International Bar Association, since 1992

Languages

AzerbaijaniEnglishRussianTurkish