Kommersant Publishing House has included Maxima Legal in the list of leaders of the legal market in Russia-2025
Kommersant Publishing House has published the results of its own annual survey of the legal business in Russia. Maxima Legal has confirmed its reputation as one of the leading domestic legal consultants, having been recognised in 25 rating categories, 18 of which are in the 1st band of the survey. It should be noted that Kommersant has included…
24.04.2025
Pravo-300 rating included Maxima Legal team in the list of recommended lawyers for the sixth time
Pravo-300, the key Russian legal rating, has published individual recommendations of lawyers practising in various areas of law. According to the results of the research for 2024, personal recognition in 11 nominations was given to 9 Maxima Legal lawyers who played a leading role in the firm's most highly rated projects for the period from…
12.03.2025
Arina Merkureva has explained to Delovoy Peterburg newspaper why after the death of one of the founders, a business can be declared bankrupt and its co-founders can be held subsidiary liability
RostFinance Bank is seeking to recover RUB 23 m. from a businessman who died in 2022. The businessman acted as a guarantor on a loan to a business in which he was a co-founder and pledged his flat and land plot as security. At the bank's request, the Commercial Court of St Petersburg and the Leningrad Region declared the deceased citizen…
04.03.2025
Elizaveta Pastushenko has told DP about the difficulties associated with the change in the rules for calculating fees for registration actions with real estate
From 1 January 2025, new rules for the calculation of fees for registration actions involving immovable property come into force. Instead of the previous RUB 2,000 for the standard registration of a transfer of ownership rights, a progressive scale has been introduced depending on the cadastral value of the property. In this case, the amount of…
22.01.2025
Delovoy Peterburg and Novy Prospect quoted Sergey Nikitenko's explanation of the purpose of creating personal funds
The mechanism of a personal fund as a form of asset management was introduced in Russia by law in 2022. The founder's property (real estate, securities, shares in organisations, etc.) with a total value of at least RUB 100 m is transferred to the personal fund by right of ownership. At the same time, the data on the founder, assets and…
25.12.2024
Sergey Nikitenko has told the Legal Information Agency about the peculiarities of granting loans between individuals on the security of real estate
Specially for the Legal Information Agency, Sergey Nikitenko, Associate of the Private Wealth practice at Maxima Legal, told whether a flat can be pledged as collateral for a loan between private individuals and how such an encumbrance is removed: ‘The legislation does not prohibit loans between individuals, including loans secured by real estate.…
23.12.2024
Valeria Gulyakina has commented on Novy Prospect draft law on extrajudicial collection of tax debts from individuals
From 1 November 2025, the tax inspectorate may be able to collect tax arrears from citizens out of a court. In this case, the bill provides for informing debtors through the taxpayer's personal account, an account on Gosusugi, or, in their absence, by registered letter. However, as Valeria Gulyakina, Junior Associate of Tax & Administrative…
12.12.2024
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
Olga Finogenova has commented for Pravo.ru on a dispute that reached the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation regarding the recovery of losses incurred due to the cancellation of an international flight in 2022
In early March 2022, in connection with the recommendations of Rosaviatsia dated 5 March 2022 to suspend international flights due to the threat of aircraft arrest abroad, Aeroflot notified passengers of the cancellation of the Maldives-Moscow flight and refunded the money for the tickets. After returning to Russia, the passengers demanded…
05.12.2024