About Us
SSH Advisors is a niche financial, tax and legal advisory practice, which has been operating in Kazakhstan since 2008. We are specialists in helping businesses enter, operate, expand and transact in Kazakhstan. We have a solid reputation and a proven track record on complex, high profile, cross border transactions. Our core services include:
- Legal Services
- Tax Consulting
- Accounting & Financial Services
With our strong background and established presence in Almaty and Astana we advise a wide range of clients from large multinationals to fast-growing entrepreneurial clients.
We also handle advisory work in cases of complex or unusual corporate shareholding or management structures. In particular, we are skilled at helping bridge the gap between Kazakhstan and international corporate governance requirements.
Our goals are to:
- Provide reliable, efficient and experienced legal, tax and financial services support through understanding the clients’ business and environment
- Organisation and providing of services of highest professional standards
- Establishment and maintenance of long-term relationships with clients based on trust, honesty and personal responsibilit
Areas of practice:
- Anti-trust & Regulatory
- Labour & Employment
- Legal business counselling
- Banking & Finance
- M&A and JVs
- Mineral resources
- Business Restructurings and Reorganizations
- Business planning
- Real Estate
- Capital Markets
- Tax law
- Transaction Tax Support
- Transfer pricing
- Contract Law
- Corporate Law
- Construction and infrastructure
- Customs Law
- Disputes & Litigations
- Development and implementation of internal control system
- Tax Structuring (domestic and international)
- Energy & Mineral Resources
- Tax Consulting
- Intellectual Property
- Tax Disputes & Litigation
- Finance and securities
- Financial due diligence
- Financial statements (IFRS/US GAAP)
- Subsoil use
Our Services
Three good reasons
Legal Services
All our professionals have more than 12 years of legal experiences.
Tax Services
We offer you professional consultation of our specialist.
Financial and Accounting Services
Our prices are fixed for some standard services.
SSH Advisors Team
Safkhan Shahmammadli
Email: safkhan.shahmammadli@sshtax.com
Education and Admission
Safkhan holds a Masters degree in Law from the London School of Economics (Univ. of London) (1999), and LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law (2004). He obtained his Bachelor degree in international law from Baku State University (1997). Safkhan is admitted to practice law in the State of New York (2005).
Experience
Safkhan has over 20 years of diverse experience in consulting and representing clients ranging from locally based investors through multi-nationals, state agencies and high-net worth individuals on
various legal and tax issues.
Prior to establishing SSH Advisors, Safkhan has worked as a Legal Director for a large private equity fund in Kazakhstan, which had Goldman Sachs, Mittal Investments and several high net worth individuals as partners. More than 10 years of his career Safkhan has worked for international law firms (Baker Botts LLP) and legal practices of «big four» consulting (PwC, KPMG and E&Y) in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and the United Kingdom and over 5 years as a general counsel in industry/private equity funds.
Principal areas of concentration include M&A, corporate law, corporate financing and international tax structuring. Also, Safkhan has a strong experience in other areas, such as contracts, anti-trust,
employment and dispute resolution matters.
Jahangir Juraev
Phone: +7(727)259 62 62
Education and Admission
Jahangir holds both his Masters and Bachelor degrees in Banking and Finance from Tashkent State University of Economics (Tashkent, Uzbekistan).
Experience
Jahangir started his career in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and has over 20 years of experience in providing consulting services in tax.
Prior to joining SSH Advisors, Jahangir has been a tax partner with Ernst & Young Kazakhstan where he led International Tax Services and Financial Services groups. In the periods of 2007-2008 and
2011-2013 Jahangir was a part of the Group servicing financial institutions in Ernst & Young, Moscow.
In addition to tax law, Jahangir has a broad understanding of various business and investment related issues that domestic and foreign investor encounter in their operations. He has proven experience
of tailoring solutions to specific requirements of the business within the framework of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and international tax law.Jahangir is specialized on taxation including:
• Full spectrum of issues on taxation of banks and financial establishments, including securitization, issuance of derivative financial instruments, structured products, Islamic finance, restructuring of problem assets, etc.;
• International tax structuring, M&A, corporate reorganizations;
• Taxation of subsurface users and contractors related to them;
• Taxation of companies in real estate and hospitality, construction, retail and industrial sectors of economy.
Ravshan Ismadiyarov
Education and Admission
Ravshan obtained his Bachelor degree in University of World Economy and diplomacy (Tashkent, Uzbekistan). Ravshan is a US certified public accountant.
Experience
Ravshan has been admitted to SSH Advisors as a partner and leads the accounting and financial service line. Since joining SSH Advisors in August 2011, Ravshan has built a solid client portfolio which consists of both, Kazakhstani and international companies.
Prior to joining SSH Advisors Ravshan had been working with Ernst & Young (E&Y) for 14 years. Over the last 4 years of his E&Y career Ravshan headed the Transaction Support department, and was responsible for the financial consulting, due diligence and debt restructuring projects in Kazakhstan, while the first 10 years he worked as a senior manager / manager in the audit department. Ravshan’s client portfolio included wide range of companies and financial institutions in Kazakhstan, Russia, Uzbekistan and
Ukraine.
Ravshan has an extensive advisory, due diligence and audit experience which includes working with a number of international investment companies, top Central Asia financial institutions and large
production, mining, oil & gas and FMCG companies in Kazakhstan, Russia, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.
Ravshan’s technical skills among others include:
• Buy side & sell side due diligence services;
• Development / analysis of business plan andfinancial forecast; cash flow and working capital management;
• Transformation of the statutory financial statements to IFRS / US GAAP;
• Audit and setting up internal control system;
• Audit of the IFRS/US GAAP financial statements under the international audit standards;
• Advisory services in preparation to audit of Big Four companies.
Ivan Rodionov
Partner
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Email: Ivan.rodionov@sshtax.com
Mobile: +7 (701) 223 40 69
Education
Novosibirsk State University, Master’s Degree in Economics, Novosibirsk, Russia
Licensed Auditor (Russian Federation)
Experience
Ivan has more than 28 years of experience in taxation and IFRS advisory, tax and accounting automation, business process optimization, and implementation of tax (horizontal) monitoring regime and internal control frameworks for major companies in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Russia.
Prior to joining SSH Advisors, from 2008 to 2025 Ivan served as an Equity Partner in the Kazakhstan and Russia practice of Ernst & Young (EY), where he led the Accounting Advisory Services practice, the Tax Technology and Transformation practice for Central Asia, and the Tax & Legal consulting practice for the Technology, Telecommunications and Media sector across the CIS region.
Ivan’s core area of specialization is the design and implementation of methodological frameworks and complex automation of accounting and tax processes for large enterprises across multiple industries. Ivan has led the delivery of more than 200 successful projects in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Russia related to the development and end-to-end process automation of accounting, tax, and management accounting methodology.
Ivan is recognized as one of the leading regional experts in tax (horizontal) monitoring in Kazakhstan and Russia and has been actively involved in the development and enhancement of tax legislation in this area across the CIS region.
Ivan is also a recognized expert on the implementation of the OECD BEPS 2.0 Pillar 2 rules and has unique experience in leading comprehensive Pillar 2 implementation projects for major state-owned and private enterprises in Kazakhstan.
Ivan’s clients include major state-owned enterprises in the CIS region (Samruk-Kazyna Group, Samruk-Energo Group, Kazzinc Group, Uztransgaz JSC, Uzbekugol JSC, Gazprom PJSC, Rosatom Group, Russian Railways PJSC, Sberbank PJSC, Rostelecom PJSC, among others), private multinational groups (ERG Group, Kazzinc Group, AFK Sistema Group, Lukoil Group, Norilsky Nickel Group, MTS PJSC, among others), as well as leading global corporations (Cisco, AstraZeneca, Jaguar Land Rover, Procter & Gamble, etc.).
In addition, Ivan has extensive experience advising on matters related to tax law, accounting, and financial reporting, including:
• Turnkey projects on tax optimization and obtaining tax grants and incentives;
• Restructuring and corporate reorganizations;
• Transaction tax structuring and optimization;
• Tax audit readiness and litigation support;
• Tax due diligence and M&A tax structuring;
• IFRS / US GAAP financial statement transformation;
• Development of accounting policies for IFRS, tax, and management reporting;
• Advisory on complex tax and accounting matters; and more.
Office 410, 202 Dostyk Ave.,
050051, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Telephone: +7 (727) 313 35 50
e-mail: info@sshtax.com