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
Dmitry Uryakin told Pravo.ru about the difficulties, up to 2025 present in determining the jurisdiction of disputes on lease agreements subject to state registration
Pravo.ru legal media pointed out that despite the fact that Chapter 4 of the Code of Commercial Procedure sets out in detail the nuances of determining the jurisdiction of disputes in the sphere of real estate, including emphasising that claims about immovable property must be filed exclusively at its location, the question of what applies to…
25.02.2025
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
Konstantin Boytsov explained to RZD-Partner the regulations on the withdrawal of land plots for significant construction projects
In the summer of 2024, the construction of the first high-speed railway between Moscow and St Petersburg was launched. The railway will pass through Tver and Veliky Novgorod, and about seven thousand land plots are to be purchased for its construction. Konstantin Boytsov, Head of Real Estate & Constructon Practice at Maxima Legal,…
18.10.2024
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 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
St Petersburg legal community named Maxima Legal one of the best law firms in the city, and Leonid Filanovskiy was named the Advocate of the Year
For the fourth time Delovoy Peterburg newspaper summarised the results of "Yurtop: Team Scoring" the rating, a survey of St Petersburg based law companies on the assessments of the market participants. The opinion of the professional community once again confirmed the level of Maxima Legal's expertise. The company was ranked among the…
24.04.2024
Konstantin Boytsov assessed for DP the draft law on paid change of designation of land plots for building construction
A legislative initiative to amend Article 37 of the Town Planning Code (on types of permitted use of land plots and capital construction objects) has been proposed to the State Duma. It would give the regions the right to set a fee for changing the type of permitted use of a land plot (TPU) owned by an individual or legal entity to another type of…
23.04.2024
Natalia Demina told Delovoy Peterburg about the current peculiarities of property sales abroad by Russians
According to Delovoy Peterburg newspaper, the number of requests from Russians to sell or exchange their foreign property, primarily in Finland and the Baltic Countries, has been increasing recently. Although such transactions are possible in principle today, compared to previous years they have become more expensive and more complexly……
28.03.2024