Dmitry Uryakin has assessed for Pravo.ru the likely position of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in a dispute over the exclusion of one of the participants from the company
This week, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation will consider a dispute over the expulsion of one of the participants from Yugons-Agro. In 2017, the organisation's director Georgy Nurakhmetov sold his share to his partner Vladimir Sorokin. The latter in 2019 transferred all the property of the enterprise to other companies at a price five…
02.10.2023
Dmitry Uryakin has commented for Mashnews on the Ministry of Industry and Trade's attempt to challenge the sale of the bankrupt plant's production complex
The Ministry of Industry and Trade demanded that results of the auction for the sale of the bankrupt Machine-Building Plant under named after F.E. Dzerzhinsky in Perm, be declared invalid. The plant had been purchased by PSK Spetsproektstroy at a price five times lower than the starting one. Due to the fact that by the time the Ministry of…
30.05.2023
Three Maxima Legal experts were recognised by the city-wide Rating of Lawyers of Vecherniy Sankt-Peterburg newspaper
Vecherniy Sankt-Petersburg newspaper summarised the results of its first city-wide Rating of Lawyers. Maxim Ali, Partner at Maxima Legal, won in the main nomination – "Best Lawyer". The recognition of the rating was also given to Dmitry Uryakin, Senior Associate at Maxima Legal, and Ekaterina Abakumova, Advocate at Private Wealth practice at…
19.05.2023
Maxima Legal is again recognised by Pravo.ru in the national litigation ranking
Pravo.ru legal media has again mentioned Dispute Resolution practice team at Maxima Legal among the best litigation lawyers. According to the All-Russian Litigation Market Survey for 2022, the company was included in 46 regional firms recommended for defending interests in courts. Among St Petersburg players, Maxima Legal ranked 5th in terms of…
11.05.2023
Dmitry Uryakin analysed for AG the position of the Supreme Court on the recovery of lost profits in case of intellectual property rights infringement
Chanel SARL and Christian Dior Couture S.A. - the right holders of the Chanel and Christian Dior trademarks, respectively, filed a lawsuit to recover from individual entrepreneur Olga Prudnikova the loss of profit in the amount of RUB 125.5 thousand. According to the plaintiffs, the losses were caused by the defendant's sale of counterfeit goods…
14.02.2023
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