Rovshen Agabayev, Legal Coordinator

Rovshen Agabayev

Legal Coordinator

Eni Turkmenistan Limited

Location
Turkmenistan
Education
Master's degree, Economic Development in Emerging Markets
Experience
21 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :21 years, 0 Months

Legal Coordinator at Eni Turkmenistan Limited
  • Turkmenistan
  • My current job since December 2012

Managing Legal and Compliance department, legal support of petroleum operation, contracts, regulatory compliance, labour law issues, taxation, managing complaints, representation in courts, prosecutor's offices, PSA, JOA, negotiations, litigations.
Fulfilling duties of Government Affairs Coordinator.

Law practitioner (part-time) at Grata Law firm
  • Turkmenistan
  • My current job since January 2014

Legal support (due diligence, preparation of documents, agreements, legal advice and opinion) to financing operations.

Senior Lawyer at ACT
  • Turkmenistan
  • July 2012 to December 2012

- Preparation and advice on loan agreements and security documentation, including pledges of shares, movables, assignments of receivables and other rights, mortgages, guarantee deeds under financing operations;
- Advice on currency controls, financial transactions, currency exchange, antimoney laundering regulation;
- Preparation of legal due diligence;
- Advice on contract formation, structuring joint ventures, partnerships, and foreign investments, taxation;
- Drafting and analyzing commercial contracts, import-export regulation;
- Analysis of legislation of various issues;
- Taxation and recoverability, PSAs and JOAs;
- Contracts, insurance, liabilities and indemnities;

Project Controller - Invoicing; Logistics Coordinator at Petrofac International
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • May 2011 to June 2012

 Negotiating with Client the acceptance of volume of accomplished works on engineering, procurement, construction, based on acceptance certificates and progress measurement system;
 Organize meeting with relevant construction engineers and Client to discuss the acceptance of works;
 Discussion of other important issues and coordinating with Head office to solve them;
 Act as liaison between with project office and the Client;
 Promoting submission of monthly Progress Certificate and Invoice to the client for acceptance and payment;

 Coordinating affairs of subcontractors related to supply of materials;
 Controlling fulfilment of contractual obligation of subcontractors regarding materials supply;
 Developing import export procedures for subcontractors regarding and ensure its fulfilment.
 Ensuring preparation by subcontractors, and checking compliance and integrity of contract specification of materials and further submission for approval of relevant project state institution.
 Enabling the acceptance of delivery certificates by Client
 Obtaining necessary permissions
 Registration of locally purchased materials
 Controlling timely custom clearance by subcontractors

Governance Manager at USAID
  • Turkmenistan
  • March 2011 to May 2011

“Strengthening Governance in Turkmenistan” USAID/QED

 Support in Promoting project within government bodies
 Analysing and assessing of situation in respective areas
 Analysis of legislation
 Creating a database of legislation in the area of governance and administrative law
 Setting-up a concept for Turkmenistan
 Setting-up strategy for the project
 Setting-up activity plans and agendas for the events
 Legal support of the activity of the project
 Working out proposals and justifications for cooperation with government

Senior Specialist for coordination of trade houses at Ministry of Trade of Turkmenistan
  • Turkmenistan
  • November 2010 to February 2011

 Opening legal entities abroad and in Turkmenistan
• Assistance in registration of legal entities
• Advice regarding import and export
• Analysis of foreign markets and legislations related to economic activity
• Coordination with ministries regarding the provision of favourable conditions to businesses
• Assistance in drafting statutory documents of firms
• Monitoring of success and profitability level.

Programme Assistant at Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
  • Turkmenistan
  • November 2006 to July 2009

 Advice in strategy formulation
 Development, implementation, feedbacking of projects in the area of International Human Rights Standards, administration of Justice, constitutional reform, law-making, elections.
 Planning the projects’ and programme expenditures
 Organization of events, seminars, conferences for officials(30)
 Organization of study tour to “Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature”, France (2009) for legal officials, aimed at improving judicial system, and judicial education in Turkmenistan
 Information analysis and drafting background papers
 Letters, reports, assessments.
 Update of legal database, analysis of legal data, provision of legal assistance
 Assistance to the work with individual complainants
 Communication with relevant authorities

Operational Representative at Daher International
  • Turkmenistan
  • August 2004 to November 2006

 Coordination of international delivery of goods for major construction projects
 Control of local agent’s performance (Custom clearance, certification of conformity, logistics)
 Creation and update of database for all activities (8704 items)
 Liaison between clients, partners, head office
 Data collection and exchange
 Total value of goods delivered and cleared with my coordination is 200 million USD

Specialist of Information Research Systems Department at Eurasian Patent Organization
  • Russian Federation
  • February 2002 to June 2004

- preparation of English version of monthly bulletins;
- research of patent information in world databases;
- translation patent information into English;
- oral and written translation;

Education

Master's degree, Economic Development in Emerging Markets
  • at University of Reading, Henley Business School
  • December 2010

Regulation, Emerging Economies and Policy, Economic Development, Business and Management, Theoretical approaches to Multinational Enterprise, Financial development in emerging maket, Globalization

Higher diploma, Law
  • at Russian State Academy of Intellectual Property
  • February 2005
Bachelor's degree, French language and litterature
  • at Turkmen State University
  • July 2000

Specialties & Skills

Legal Advice
Logistics
Business Development
Project Management
Economic Development

Languages

Russian
Expert
English
Expert
French
Expert
Turkish
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Intellectual Property Issues (Training)
Training Institute:
European Patent Organization, Munich, Germany
Date Attended:
July 2005
Human Dimension Course (Training)
Training Institute:
ODIHR/OSCE, Warsaw, Poland
Date Attended:
December 2007
Study tour to Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature, Bordeaux (Training)
Training Institute:
Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature, Bordeaux, France
Date Attended:
May 2009
The Executive Programme in International Contract Law, Oil and Gas Industry (Training)
Training Institute:
European School of Economics, London, UK
Date Attended:
April 2013
International Petroleum Management Programme (Training)
Training Institute:
Eni Corporate University
Date Attended:
June 2014