Dmitry Uryakin analyzed for DP the actuality of disputes over the exclusion of “dead souls” from JSCs
The Delovoy Petersburg newspaper drew attention to the persistence of a large number of corporate disputes. Thus, in 2023 the Commercial Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region considered more than 3 thousand such cases, and in January-June of this year - 1.6 thousand. At the same time, one of the urgent problems for joint-stock companies…
21.08.2024
Dmitry Uryakin has explained to Mashnews why the court was able to recover almost RUB 17bn from Volkswagen under the framework agreement
The Commercial Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, applying Swiss law, recovered RUB 16.9 bn from Volkswagen Acciengesellschaft in favour of Gorky Avtomobilny Zavod (Gorky Automobile Plant). The companies entered into a contract under which Volkswagen undertook to supply diesel engines and spare parts to Nizhny Novgorod. At the same time,…
01.08.2024
Kommersant newspaper, RBC and Novy Prospect quoted Sergei Bakeshin's opinion on the seriousness of Alfa-Bank's intention to bankrupt Tochka Zreniya opticians’ chain
Alfa-Bank has filed a bankruptcy petition against Tochka Zreniya SPb LLC , which manages the eponymous chain of 22 opticians in St Petersburg and Moscow. The amount of claims is RUB 65.3 mn. This is not the first case between Alfa-Bank and Tochka Zreniya in this year; earlier the bank had already obtained a court decision to recover more than…
26.07.2024
Sergei Bakeshin has outlined for Mashnews the prospects for Baltic Shipyard to recover €7.6m from Wartsila Oyj Abp
The Thirteenth Commercial Court of Appeal recovered from Wartsila Oyj Abp in favour of Baltic Shipyard the amounts of bank guarantees in the amount of almost EUR 7.6 million for non-delivered equipment. In its ruling, the court stated that Wartsila Oyj Abp could not refuse to fulfil its obligations ‘due to the fact that the circumstances in which…
23.07.2024
Dmitry Uryakin told Pravo.ru about the position of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on the application of the norm on unjustified enrichment
This week the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation will consider a case concerning the recovery of money transferred by oral agreement via Sberbank Online for the provision of a legal service relating to the re-registration of the designation of immovable property. Three lower courts ruled that the transfer was unjust enrichment, as the…
15.07.2024
Dmitry Uryakin commented to Kommersant on an attempt by alcoholic beverage company Ladoga to challenge the trademark of a Spanish cider producer
In 2023, alcoholic beverage producer and importer Ladoga failed to register the Emerald brand due to the presence of a similar trademark with an earlier priority with Spanish company Envasados Eva. Ladoga applied to the Intellectual Rights Court for early termination of legal protection of the disputed brand, citing the fact that it is not used by…
05.07.2024
Maxima Legal and Nextons represented the sellers in the deal for Yandex's acquisition of eLama advertising platform
Yandex has finalised the acquisition of eLama, a technology platform that allows advertising campaigns to be run across 19 internet systems, including Yandex, VK and Telegram. Maxima Legal and Nextons acted as legal advisors to the sellers. The lawyers provided support during the preparatory activities and co-ordinated the contractual…
03.07.2024
Dmitry Uryakin explained to Novy Prospect Baltiysky Zavod's reluctance to make timely payments to counterparties
LLC Sanesta-Metal Pipe Company, one of the largest suppliers of industrial steel pipes in the North-West, has filed six lawsuits against JSC Baltiysky Zavod in the Commercial Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region since the end of November 2023. The plaintiff's claims in all cases are similar: the company is trying to recover from the…
30.05.2024
Elizaveta Pastushenko told Legal Information Agency about the peculiarities of business inheritance for individual entrepreneurs
Elizaveta Pastushenko, a Senior Associate of Private Wealth practice at Maxima Legal, told the Legal Information Agency whether labour and other contracts concluded by an individual entrepreneur are valid after his death and how such business is inherited. "State registration of a citizen as an individual entrepreneur automatically terminates in…
27.05.2024
Kirill Katkov spoke to the Vecherniy Petersburg about copyright in authors' works
Vecherniy Petersburgnewspaper told about the specifics of the writer's profession. For example, it is important to remember such a legal aspect as copyright. According to Russian laws, they arise from the moment a work is created. The person indicated as the author on the original or copy of the work or in another way, is considered its author,…
16.05.2024