Maxima Legal is among top firms in Pravo.ru’s 2025 Corporate Law research
The analytical team at Pravo.ru has conducted an extensive study of the Russian corporate legal market, examining 2,692 corporate law projects completed between January 2024 and April 2025, with a combined value of RUB 97.9 trillion. The data was provided by 94 leading law firms. Maxima Legal has been recognised as one of Russia’s top-performing…
17.06.2025
Kommersant Publishing House has included Maxima Legal in the list of leaders of the legal market in Russia-2025
Kommersant Publishing House has published the results of its own annual survey of the legal business in Russia. Maxima Legal has confirmed its reputation as one of the leading domestic legal consultants, having been recognised in 25 rating categories, 18 of which are in the 1st band of the survey. It should be noted that Kommersant has included…
24.04.2025
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
Novy Prospect and Mashnews quoted Dmitry Uryakin's commentary on the corporate conflict in the fish farming industry
A corporate conflict is gaining momentum at Organicheskiy Rost (Organic Growth) company, that develops large fish farms in the Leningrad and Murmansk regions. In particular, Victoria Bykova, a blogger and an co-owner of the company, has filed a lawsuit to invalidate the decision of the extraordinary general meeting of participants on the early…
24.03.2025
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