Anastasia Samusenko told Pravo.ru whether the board of directors can ignore a shareholder proposal
A shareholder of Technodinamika, which owns 31% in the authorised capital of Velkont, proposed to the Board of Directors of the latter to include in the agenda of the annual general meeting an issue on the distribution of the company's profit based on the results of the financial year, and also outlined his wording of the resolution on it. The…
26.12.2023
Anastasia Samusenko has commented for NP on the appearance of a CEIF among the owners of Gatchinskiy Myisokombinat meat processing plant
The ownership structure of Gatchinsky Myisokombinat meat processing plant has changed. Entrepreneurs Andrei Nesterov and Klavdia Kalnitskaya retained their stakes. The rest of the shares have passed to Danil Dolgikh, ex-owner of the Oktyabrsky Cognac Factory and RSP Group CEIF. They split 50% stake that was previously…
14.12.2023
Anastasia Samusenko has commented to Pravo.ru on a dispute about a bank changing the status of a loan agreement upon reorganisation of a borrower company
In September 2020, Dimark Profi Medical Centre opened a credit line with Sberbank to support its operations. The agreement provided for three stages: the first two had an annual interest rate of 2% and the third 15%. In addition, the document stipulated that the debt could be written off if a number of conditions were met, including that the…
30.10.2023
Anastasia Samusenko has commented for RBC Pro on reorganisations recognised by the court as a sham transaction
RBC Pro has studied how the courts practice of recognising sham and pretended transactions is shaping up. For example, the media drew attention to a dispute concerning a reorganisation of aLLC by heirs. Due to a "technical error" of a notary, only two out of four heirs were entered into the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. Before the…
18.10.2023
Anastasia Samusenko told Mashnews whether the current situation in the world affects the enforcement abroad of Russian state court judgements
In 2020, the Commercial Procedure Code of the Russian Federation was amended to give domestic companies on Western sanctions lists the right to waive their obligations to a foreign partner to arbitrate a dispute in international arbitration and transfer it to a Russian state court. Due to the aggravation of the geopolitical situation, this…
09.03.2023
Anastasia Samusenko assessed for Forbes Russia the chances of recovering about $100,000 in salary arrears from a foreign startup
The American educational platform StudyFree, which helps students to enrol in foreign universities with a scholarship, has found itself at the centre of a scandal: the service's team accused its founder, Russian Daria Kroshkina, of failing to pay salaries, the amount of which had reached $100,000 by January 2023. All employees worked on a…
24.01.2023
Anastasia Samusenko has told RBC how to prevent corporate conflicts
The increase in business activity in 2021-2022 coincided with both an increase in the number of bankruptcies and an increase in the number of M&A, which, as a rule, leads to an increase in corporate disputes. Especially for RBC+ Petersburg, Anastasia Samusenko, Associate at Maxima Legal, told how to prevent corporate conflicts or minimize the…
01.12.2022
Anastasia Samusenko commented to Novy Prospect on the possible reasons for the restructuring of Sogaz JSC
Sogaz JSC is transferring to top managers of its subsidiaries a portion of shares in Sogaz International Medical Centre, which operates several medical centres with the same name. According to market participants, this is related to Sogaz's coming under sanctions imposed by the European Union. As lawyers point out, changing the ownership structure…
22.07.2022
Anastasia Samusenko has prepared an overview of measures being taken to stabilise the economy
In connection with the sanctions imposed on Russia, the Presidential Decree "On Additional Temporary Economic Measures to Ensure the Financial Stability of the Russian Federation" introduced restrictions concerning the regulation of currency transactions, the procedure for dealing with individuals' accounts and deposits, etc. Anastasia Samusenko,…
03.03.2022
Anastasia Samusenko analysed the pandemic-induced changes in labour disputes for Delovoy Peterburg
The Delovoy Peterburg newspaper prepared an article in which experts analysed the current situation with labour disputes in St Petersburg. Anastasia Samusenko, Lawyer at Maxima Legal, spoke about the impact of the pandemic on the nature of labour disputes and outlined the main trends in labour law cases. According to Anastasia, "the pandemic has…
23.12.2021