Maxim Ali helped RBC understand the potential penalties for doxing
Doxing is the publication of personal information about a person without their consent for the purpose of harassment, blackmail or profit. The term is derived from the English derivative dox (a variant spelling of the word docs); the person who commits doxing is called a doxer. The information published by the perpetrator may include a person's…
15.12.2022
Sergei Bakeshin has commented to Delovoy Peterburg on the dispute between St Petersburg's cultural institutions and the ticket aggregator
Oktyabrsky Concert Hall, Music Hall theatre and a other cultural organisations in St Petersburg initiated litigation against Sofit ticket aggregator. Contracts had been concluded between the plaintiffs and the defendant under which Sofit was obliged to transfer money for the tickets sold, but failed to do so or did not transfer the money in full.…
07.12.2022
The Pravo.ru-300 ranking has once again confirmed the high level of expertise of all Maxima Legal's practices
The results of the key Russian ranking of law firms Pravo.ru-300 were announced on December 2. According to the results of the research, Maxima Legal has once again confirmed the high level of expertise of all the firm's practices, receiving professional recognition in 18 areas of the research. At the regional level the firm has maintained its…
05.12.2022
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
Maxim Ali has explained to Pravo.ru the contrary logic of the courts of different instances while considering the dispute over the protection of an exclusive right to a computer programme
Maxim Ali, Partner, Head of IP/IT Practice at Maxima Legal, told Pravo.ru legal media that software developers often move from one company to another and create their own startups in the same area in which they used to work. According to the expert, the former employer sees that his former employee has created a similar product and begins to…
29.11.2022
Konstantin Boytsov has commented for Novy Prospect on the current position of the Russian Supreme Court regarding unauthorised constructions
According to the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, buildings and structures erected without necessary permits or in non-compliance with established norms are recognised as unauthorised. In 2015, officials were given the right to decide on the destruction of real estate in an administrative procedure. Having analysed the emerging practice, the…
24.11.2022
Maxim Ali has explained to Pravo.ru why the conclusions of the courts of general jurisdiction on the protection of rights to photographs differ from the position of the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation referred a case for reconsideration concerning compensation for moral damage for the theft of photographs and the application of a logo on them without the author's consent. The lower courts considered that, based on the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, the right to dispose of the product of…
23.11.2022
Nikita Deynega has explained to Cbonds why private investors want to join NSD's lawsuit to lift sanctions
A group of holders of financial assets frozen by European securities depositories in connection with the inclusion of National Settlement Depository (NSD) on tje EU sanctions lists, working together with the assistance of Maxima Legal and foreign consultants, has submitted an application to the EU General Court on behalf of one of the investors to…
17.11.2022
RBC has quoted Sergei Bakeshin commenting on the winner's challenge to the tender results
Transagro Agrarian Corporation, which in September 2022 won the auction for the sale of the Luzhsky Feed Milling Plant property, is trying to abandon the deal. On the grounds that the agent who represented it had offered an unapproved "unreasonably high price" of RUB 350m, the company requests that the results of the procedure be declared invalid.…
15.11.2022
Sergei Bakeshin has commented for Novy Prospect on the winner's challenge to the results of the auction for the sale of the bankrupt agribusiness enterprise's property
In September 2022, A-Group, acting for Novosibirsk-based Agrarian Corporation Transagro, won an auction to sell the assets of Luzhsky Feed Mill as part of bankruptcy proceedings. However, the winner is now trying to invalidate the auction results in a court due to "violations of the rules established by the current legislation", in particular, the…
15.11.2022