Sergei Bakeshin commented for the Novy Prospect on a dispute about a change of a priority of claims of affiliated creditors in a bankruptcy case
At the end of October 2020 the first instance court restored the former managers of the bankrupt International Bank of Saint Petersburg in the Register of creditors of the first order. The bankers as private depositors are demanding to return them of almost 1 billion rubles stuck in their bank accounts. The state corporation Deposit Insurance…
28.01.2021
Alina Kalinskova told the Vot Tak TV about the procedure in case of inability to pay the loan
The World Bank estimates that due to the pandemic, the real incomes of citizens have fallen significantly due to rising unemployment and falling wages. At the same time, the share of loan arrears rose. As calculated by the Vot Tak TV online publishing, overdue debts amounted to 889 billion rubles since the beginning of this year. However,…
21.12.2020
Sergei Bakeshin has commented for the Kommersant on the loan from a former Russian minister on the construction of a port terminal
Artem Begun, a one of the participants of the Universally Transshipment Complex Primorsky LLC, pledged his share to the former Minister of Information Technology and Communications of the Russian Federation Leonid Reiman as security for a loan received by the company for one year with the possibility of renewal. The business partners decided to…
29.07.2020
Sergei Bakeshin has commented on Business FM St Petersburg on an initiative of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation on combating the withdrawal of assets by owners of financial organisations
The Central Bank has proposed the creation of a new legal mechanism that will allow it to block accounts and transactions with property of the owners of financial institutions before the court decides to recover losses from them. The existing procedure of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation is not adequate, since it is applied after a…
17.10.2019
Natalia Diatlova presented Maxima Legal at SPBILF-2019
Natalia Diatlova, Partner of Maxima Legal, took part in the IX St Petersburg International Legal Forum. In 2019, the forum brought together over 5,000 representatives of various segments of the legal practice: attorneys, legal advisors, business consultants, as well as public authorities, academic schools, courts, notaries and international…
20.05.2019
Maxima Legal has strengthened its rating in The Legal 500
Independent international rating agency for leading law firms, the Legal 500 has included Maxima Legal in its list of recommended law firms in three categories. The editors of the rating included Maxima Legal in the category of Private Client, giving a high assessment of the firm’s advisory services for succession planning, personal investment and…
12.04.2018
Maxima Legal has again been included in the map of the legal market in St Petersburg
Delovoy Peterburg has published a study titled ‘The map of legal services in St Petersburg’, which compares 51 regional law firms, including regional offices of federal and international companies. The studies includes the number of hours spent by the law firms on assisting clients in 2017 and also the spread of workloads over 16 practice areas…
28.03.2018
Maxima Legal has been included among the leaders in the legal market in Chambers Europe 2018
Rating agency Chambers & Partners has published its latest international rating of law firms, Chambers Europe 2018. As in the previous publication, Maxima Legal has been listed in the category of General Business Law – St Petersburg. The editors of the ratings emphasised that the firm is well-known in the local market as well as among…
12.03.2018
A simplification of the documentation required when establishing a legal entity
Since 1 January 2017 an entry on the register of companies and entrepreneurs is now the only document required to confirm the registration of a company or entrepreneur. The registers containing such records in Russia are the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (USRLE) and the Unified State Register of Individual Entrepreneurs (USRIE). Under…
13.01.2017