Dmitry Uryakin commented for LIA on the Supreme Court's conclusions on the right of owners of dead animals to moral damage compensation
In 2019, Saransk resident Oleg Skorokhododov hit a dog belonging to Yulia Antipova to death at a pedestrian crossing. The district court recovered compensation for moral damage from the offender, but the cassation board cancelled this decision, stating that "compensation for moral damage caused by the death of a dog through the fault of another…
06.02.2023
Dmitry Uryakin has analysed a dispute regarding the exclusion of a person from a LLC especially for Vestnik Arbitrazhnogo Suda Moskovskogo Okruga
Dmitry Uryakin, Senior Associate at Maxima Legal, considered the positions of the parties and expressed his professional opinion on the case of exclusion of a person from a limited liability company specially for Vestnik Arbitrazhnogo Suda Moskovskogo Okruga (Bulletin of the Commercial Court of the Moscow District) magazine. It should…
17.01.2023
Dmitry Uryakin assessed for Delovoy Peterburg the prospects of one of Russia's largest fish producers contesting the defendant's liquidation
In 2019, Torgovy Dom Baltiysky Bereg LLC, one of Russia's largest producers of fish products, assigned to Cage Holding SA (Switzerland) the right of claim against Fish Factory LLC for a total amount of RUB 141.85 m. Under the assignment agreement, the Swiss company undertook to pay the seller a debt of RUB 83.2 m, but failed to perform its…
13.01.2023
Dmitry Uryakin analysed for CRE the current situation with the lease of retail space by suspended foreign companies and the prospects for resolving disputes with landlords
The majority of foreign companies which suspended their operations in Russia in February-March are planning to decide on their further actions by December. There are several options: withdrawal, rebranding/downbranding, transferring representative offices to interested parties from other countries, withdrawal from contracts with individual shops.…
11.11.2022
Dmitry Uryakin commented to Pravo.ru on the position of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation regarding the registration by a gardening cooperative of ownership rights to plots of land provided for collective joint ownership of its members
The Mechta gardening cooperative received a permanent perpetual right to a plot of land in 1993, most of which was subsequently transferred to the ownership of the dacha owners. At the same time, 2.41 ha, where mainly the paths between the dachas were located, became the collective joint property of the members of the gardening cooperative. In…
10.11.2022
Dmitry Uryakin commented to the Russian Legal Information Agency on the draft law on the external management of companies with foreign participation
A draft law on the external management of companies that are at least 25% owned by investors from unfriendly countries has been submitted to the State Duma. At the same time, the document complies with internationally accepted legal norms and does not threaten foreign companies with losses. In particular, the draft law proposes to limit the…
28.09.2022
Pravo.ru once again ranked Maxima Legal among the leaders in the quantitative bankruptcy ranking
Pravo.ru legal online publishing has ranked the law firms which are more active and successful than their colleagues in such disputes. The research was based on the statistical analysis of more than 8,000 final decisions made by commercial courts from January 1 to December 31, 2021. The research of Pravo.ru once again certified…
27.09.2022
Dmitry Uryakin has assessed for CRE magazine the impact on business of the draft law on recognising the effects of sanctions as force majeure
The Russian State Duma may adopt a law recognising the consequences of sanctions as force majeure. In this way, the legislator is trying to specifically regulate the relations of market participants affected by restrictions imposed by foreign states and international organisations. Dmitry Uryakin, Associate at Maxima Legal, suggested that the law…
19.09.2022
Dmitry Uryakin assessed for CRE the idea of marketplaces to create a unified information system to track counterfeit products
After the government's decree on liability of electronic trading platforms for distribution of counterfeit and unbranded products from March 1, 2023, leading e-commerce players (Wildberries, Yandex Market and Ozon) announced the creation of a unified information system with mandatory placement of data on incidents of illegal goods, their…
30.08.2022
Dmitriy Uryakin commented to Novy Prospect on the restriction of access to personal data of the property owner in the Unified State Register of Real Estate
The State Duma in its third and final hearing adopted amendments to the law "On State Registration of Real Estate" which introduce a ban on the release of data from the Unified State Register of Real Estate with the personal data of the owner. Now the data on the object and its owner is available to anyone, from March 1, 2023 this information can…
27.07.2022