Ms Jorupbekova has experience advising clients on a wide range of transactions mainly related to exploration and mining, oil and gas financing, acquisitions, licensing, contracts (service, consulting, construction, employment, drilling, supply etc), land use, environmental and safety regulations, government affairs, establishment of Joint Ventures, general corporate and employment matters. Furthermore she is regularly involved in representing clients’ interests before government agencies, participating and conducting negotiations on behalf of the clients and/or firm, and assisting clients to set up professional network.

Ms Jorupbekova is a member of the Mineral Resources Committee of the International Business Council and the Supervisory Board of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the KR.

Ms Jorupbekova has also recently had the following two articles published, Exploration and miningindustry reforms expected in 2010 in the Kyrgyz Republic, Professional Insight: Metals & Mining Sector, Financier Worldwide, January, 2010 and Nationalization Wave in the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Eurasia Executive Guide, Thomson Reuters, November, 2010. Ms Jorupbekova graduated from the American University, Washington College of Law in the

USA with an LLM in International Legal Studies in 2005, having completed a B.A in Law at the American University of Central Asia (AUCA), Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan in 2002.

Ms Jorupbekova speaks native Kyrgyz and fluent Russian and English.