Anastasia Samusenko has discussed the introduction of electronic voting in JSCs/LLCs on the pages of EJ-Jurist magazine
JSCs/LLCs have been granted the right to hold general meetings of shareholders/participants remotely and to sign voting ballots with a simple electronic signature when adopting a decision at a general meeting. The technical side of this procedure, namely the requirements for verification of a simple electronic signature when signing ballots, is to…
27.03.2025
Anastasia Samusenko has discussed with Mashnews the changes in the conduct of general meetings of shareholders
On 20 March 2025, the President of Russia signed a federal law that immediately came into force and allowed corporations with more than 1 million shareholders to hold general meetings exclusively in remote format in 2025. Recall that the remote format of annual meetings for JSCs and LLCs was legalised in August 2024. However, earlier, even when…
26.03.2025
Anastasia Samusenko assessed for EJ-Jurist the Government's proposed amendments to the laws on JSCs and LLCs
The Government has prepared a draft law with amendments to the Laws on JSCs and LLCs, allowing the creation of subsidiaries with a sole founder-juridical entity. This will make it possible to build transparent chains of ownership. However, there is one restriction: a director of a subsidiary company may not combine a director position in the…
20.03.2025
Anastasia Samusenko commented for Mashnews on the change of ownership of one of the largest timber processing plants in Karelia
One of the largest woodworking enterprises in Karelia - Solomensky timber plant - has changed its ownership. Until 25 February 2025, the owner of the enterprise was businessman Mikhail Pitkevich, owner of the group ‘ASPEC’. According to the Contour.Focus service, the timber plant is currently owned by ASPEK-Les LLC (owner Mikhail Pitkevich (99%))…
18.03.2025
Anastasia Samusenko has commented for Novy Prospect on the change of ownership of Solomensky timber plant
Mikhail Pitkevich, owner of the group ‘ASPEC’, has changed the ownership scheme of Solomensky timber plant located in Karelia. He left direct ownership of the enterprise and now acts as its owner through one of his companies. Anastasia Samusenko, Senior Associate at Maxima Legal, explained to Novy Prospect publication that the timber plant was…
18.03.2025
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
Anastasia Samusenko has explained to DP whether the seizure of corporate assets of a former Gazprom top manager would hit a large bank
The Frunzensky District Court of St Petersburg has registered a lawsuit filed by the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation against Kirill Seleznev, CEO of RusChemAlliance and former top manager of Gazprom, and Alexei Mityushov, former head of Gazprom Energo. According to the prosecutor's office, the businessmen gained access to…
10.03.2025
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
Kommersant and Forbes quoted Anastasia Samusenko's suggestion about the impact of the developer's dispute with the Russian Prosecutor General's Office on the deal with one of Raven Russia's assets
Raven Russia, the UK-based warehouse developer, whose assets have been placed under interim measures at the suit of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office, has sold its business centre in St Petersburg. The buyer was the structure of Elena Nekrasova, the wife of Alexander Nekrasov, a member of the Federation Council, who also owns several…
18.11.2024
Anastasia Samusenko commented to Vedomosti on whether there could be a link between the increase in the creditworthiness of Russ Group and the termination of VTB's pledge of the company's shares
According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, VTB Bank has lifted the encumbrance on the shares of the owners of Russ Group, the largest outdoor advertising operator. The press service of Russ Group called the encumbrance a security measure by the bank for the period of the company's growth, acquisition of competitors and active…
16.10.2024