At Delovoy Peterburg newspaper`s request, Dmitry Uryakin has assessed whether the size of the key rate will affect court disputes
Until February 2025, the key rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation will remain at 21%, which not only hampers business investments, but also increases the risks of fines and penalties, as the key rate is sometimes also used as a tool to influence unscrupulous contractors. ‘All contracts involving the state include provisions on…
23.12.2024
Pravo-300 rating once again has confirmed Maxima Legal’s leading position in the Russian legal services market
On 5 December, the results of Pravo-300, the key Russian rating of law firms, were announced. Maxima Legal once again confirmed the highest level of expertise of all practices of the firm, have received professional recognition in 15 areas of research. At the same time, more than half of the company's awards were ‘gold’.On 5 December, the results…
06.12.2024
Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper recommended 12 Maxima Legal lawyers in 12 areas of legal support
For the second time, Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper conducted a large-scale survey of the Russian legal market and compiled its own ‘Rating of Lawyers and Their Companies’. According to the newspaper, ‘getting into the rating is the result of recognition of the quality of work and reputation of a particular specialist’: more than 2,000 applications…
05.12.2024
Dmitry Uryakin has told Novy Prospect about the composition of the property of a bankrupt large fish farm
Ekon, a large fish farm owned by ROK-1, will be sold at auction. According to the Unified Federal Register of Bankruptcy Information, Ekon's production facilities, which are pledged to Sberbank, are valued at almost RUB 87 m without VAT and RUB 102 m with VAT. The list of the company's property totals 253 items, including fish cages, fish breeding…
19.11.2024
‘Pravo.ru’ has again included Maxima Legal among regional leaders in the field of bankruptcy
‘Pravo.ru’, the leading federal online legal publication, based on statistical analysis of final decisions made by commercial courts from 1 January to 31 December 2023 in bankruptcy cases, has compiled a ranking of law firms that are more active and successful than their colleagues in such disputes. According to the results of the research at the…
15.10.2024
Dmitry Uryakin discussed with DP the specifics of disputes between Russian businesses and foreign counterparties
Peterburgskiy Traktorniy Zavod (Petersburg Tractor Plant), a manufacturer of agricultural and industrial machinery, is involved in a series of disputes with foreign counterparties. In particular, a complaint has been filed by GKN Walterscheid Getriebe GmbH, a British manufacturer of vehicle parts, from which the Commercial Court of St Petersburg…
14.10.2024
Dmitry Uryakin analyzed for DP the actuality of disputes over the exclusion of “dead souls” from JSCs
The Delovoy Petersburg newspaper drew attention to the persistence of a large number of corporate disputes. Thus, in 2023 the Commercial Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region considered more than 3 thousand such cases, and in January-June of this year - 1.6 thousand. At the same time, one of the urgent problems for joint-stock companies…
21.08.2024
Dmitry Uryakin assessed for Pravo.ru the position of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on the issue of whether the lease return act is the only confirmation of lease termination
In mid-2017, the tenant notified the landlord of the termination of the agreement and vacated the building at the beginning of the following month, and two years later received a return notice - about the rent arrears for a year and a half in the amount of RUB 12.3 mn. The first instance stated that the lease return act had not been drawn up for…
02.08.2024
Dmitry Uryakin has explained to Mashnews why the court was able to recover almost RUB 17bn from Volkswagen under the framework agreement
The Commercial Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, applying Swiss law, recovered RUB 16.9 bn from Volkswagen Acciengesellschaft in favour of Gorky Avtomobilny Zavod (Gorky Automobile Plant). The companies entered into a contract under which Volkswagen undertook to supply diesel engines and spare parts to Nizhny Novgorod. At the same time,…
01.08.2024
Dmitry Uryakin explained to Kommersant the specifics of selling seized property of a Ministry of Defence enterprise at auction
The Federal Agency for State Property Management (Rosimushchestvo) has put up for sale the seized property of the Russian Defence Ministry's Main Military Construction Directorate No. 14. The auction sells the right to lease 2.1 hectares of land and buildings with a total area of more than 14 thousand square metres. The initial cost of the objects…
16.07.2024