Issabayev Nurzhan Shaganbekovich

Issabayev Nurzhan Shaganbekovich

Managing Director for Legal Support and Asset Management of “Samruk-Energy” JSC

Citizenship: Republic of Kazakhstan
Year of birth: 17 May 1980

Education:

Graduated from the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2001 with a degree in Law.

Graduated from the Gumarbek Daukeyev Almaty University of Power Engineering and Telecommunications (Non-profit JSC) in 2022 with a degree in Thermal power engineering.

Graduated from the K.I. Satpayev Kazakh National Research Technical University (Non-profit JSC) in 2026 and was awarded an Executive MBA degree.

Work experience:

03.2001 - 05.2006

Internal Affairs bodies, Senior investigator

10.2006–05.2010

UMEX GROUP LLP, Head of Legal Department

04.2013–11.2015

BDO Tax and Advisory LLP, Chief Legal Consultant

02.2016–06.2022

Almaty Power Plants JSC, Managing Director for Legal Affairs

12.2022–07.2023

Insight Consult LLP, Head of Legal Support Service, Head of Human Resources (concurrent appointment)

 

08.2023–03.2026

Almaty Power Plants JSC, Managing Director for Legal Affairs

04.2026–present

Samruk-Energy JSC, Managing Director for Legal Support and Asset Management

Responsibilities:

  • overseeing the protection of the Company's rights and interests and those of its SAs; 
  • ensuring and overseeing high-quality, timely legal review of draft agreements and supporting documents, draft orders and other Company regulations, draft resolutions of the Company's governing bodies, and draft internal regulatory documents to ensure compliance with the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Company's interests; 
  • ensuring and overseeing the Company's and its SAs' claims, litigation, and arbitration matters, determining the Company's and its SAs' litigation and arbitration position (as agreed), and representing the Company's interests before the courts to protect its rights and legitimate interests; 
  • ensuring and overseeing sustainability management, risk management, and internal regulatory documents in the area of sustainability; 
  • ensuring and overseeing the development, updating, implementation, and monitoring of measures to implement the Company's Sustainability Guidance; 
  • ensuring the development, updating, monitoring, and implementation of the Stakeholder engagement strategy; 
  • ensuring the development and updating of the Stakeholder map and defining engagement mechanisms for internal and external stakeholders; 
  • ensuring the development and implementation of the Company's Corporate Governance Code and the Action plan for improving corporate governance in the Company and its SAs; 
  • coordinating and overseeing the preparation and publication of the Company's annual report; 
  • establishing the practice of preparing the Annual report in accordance with international standards, including GRI, TCFD, and IFRS S2; 
  • ensuring the establishment of the target corporate governance structure for the Company and its SAs; 
  • coordinating and overseeing the implementation and continuous improvement of the corporate governance system in the Company and its SAs; 
  • ensuring corporate governance assessment for the Company and its SAs; 
  • ensuring that the Company's target ESG rating is achieved; 
  • implementing measures to optimize, restructure, and reorganize the Company's assets (mergers, demergers, spin-offs, transformations, acquisitions, changes in shareholdings and ownership interests in SAs), as well as the establishment, acquisition, and disposal of shares and ownership interests in legal entities, and the liquidation of the Company's assets, including the development and oversight of action plans for these activities; 
  • implementing the Company's asset privatization program; 
  • assessing the feasibility of asset optimization and reorganization; 
  • conducting valuation of the Company's assets; 
  • performing other functions necessary to accomplish the objectives within the assigned areas.