BTA Bank (Kazakhstan) assigned Lovells LLP as the bank legal consultant on assets return

/KASE, July 2, 09/ - BTA Bank (Almaty), securities of which are present in Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) official list, provided to KASE the following press release: quotation start Lovells LLP was assigned as BTA Bank legal consultant on assets return issues. Lovells LLP is the largest international corporate legal companies with the staff over 3.000 employees, represented by 27 offices in Europe, Asia and USA. The company provides consultations to many world largest corporation, financial institutions and government organizations. Lovells LLP advocates its clients during complicated, multilateral deals and trade disputes. At the same time BTA Bank is continuing cooperation with UBS on the debt restructuring issues. The bank legal consultant is White & Case. BTA Bank advisors team involves also independent consultants M. Favale-Tarter, LLC and John Howell & Co, which give their recommendations to the National Welfare Fund Samruk-Kazyna on BTA Bank related financial issues and strategy. BTA Bank is intends to present the restructuring plan by mid July of 2009. For media contacts: Adil Dossymov, BTA Bank Press Secretary 8 (727) 266-47-97 8 707 3457619 e-mail: dosymov@bta.kz quotation end [2009-07-02]