Exhibit 5.01
POULTON & YORDAN
ATTORNEYS
AT LAW
November
1, 2019
Board
of Directors
Freedom
Holding Corp.
“Esentia
Tower” BC, Floor 7
77/7 Al
Farabi Ave
Almaty,
Kazakhstan 050040
Re:
Registration Statement on
Form S-8; 3,740,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $0.001 per
share
Ladies
and Gentlemen:
We have
acted as counsel to Freedom Holding Corp., a Nevada corporation
(the “Company”),
in connection with the registration under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), of (i) 3,740,000
shares (the “Shares”) of the common stock, par
value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company
issuable pursuant to the Company’s 2019 Equity Incentive Plan
(the “Plan”) as
described in the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-8
(as may subsequently be amended, the “Registration
Statement”).
We have
examined the Registration Statement as filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission. We have also examined and relied upon the
minutes of the meetings of the stockholders and the Board of
Directors, or committees thereof, of the Company as provided to us
by the Company, the Restated Articles of Incorporation, the By-laws
of the Company, the Plan and such other documents as we have deemed
necessary for purposes of rendering the opinion hereinafter set
forth, and we have made no independent investigation of such
matters.
In our
examination of the foregoing documents, we have assumed the
genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of all documents
submitted to us as originals, the conformity to original documents
of all documents submitted to us as copies, the authenticity of the
originals or such latter documents and the legal competence of all
signatories to such documents.
We
express no opinion herein as to the laws of any state or
jurisdiction other than the Nevada Revised Statutes and we express
no opinion with respect to any other laws.
For
purposes of the opinion set forth below, we have assumed that a
sufficient number of authorized but unissued shares of the
Company’s Common Stock will be available for issuance when
the Shares are issued.
Based
upon the foregoing, and subject to the assumptions, qualifications
and limitations stated herein, it is our opinion that the Shares
have been duly authorized for issuance and, when such Shares are
issued and paid for in accordance with the terms and conditions of
the Plan and pursuant to the agreements that accompany the Plan,
such Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and
nonassessable.
Please
note that we are opining only as to the matters expressly set forth
herein, and no opinion should be inferred as to any other
matters. This opinion is based upon currently existing
statutes, rules, regulations and judicial decisions, and we
disclaim any obligation to advise you of any change in any of these
sources of law or subsequent legal or factual developments which
might affect any matters or opinions set forth herein.
We
hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not hereby
admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is
required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the
rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
Very
truly yours,
POULTON
& YORDAN
/s/ Poulton &
Yordan
Attorneys at
Law