Maxima Legal has strengthened its team and expanded its tax practice expertise with administrative law issues
Nikita Deynega, an expert in Russian and international taxation as well as customs and antimonopoly regulation, has joined Maxima Legal. As a Senior associate, Nikita led the firm's tax practice, which started also cover a wide range of administrative law matters. Nikita has more than 12 years' experience in the legal sphere. Prior to joining…
26.04.2021
Maxima Legal and JLL held a joint discussion on "The Pandemic. One Year Later".
On April 15 Maxima Legal and international consulting company JLL held a joint discussion about how COVID-19 pandemic has influenced on business environment, including the large-scale development of remote working format. Thus, JLL representatives spoke about trends that will shape commercial real estate market in 2021 and transformation of…
15.04.2021
Sergei Bakeshin has commented to the Pravo.ru on the ruling of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on exclusion from the bankruptcy estate of the share of a posthumously declared bankrupt debtor in the only housing of the heir
Posthumous bankruptcy proceedings were instituted against a debtor. The heir succeeded in having the portion of the debtor's claim excluded from the bankruptcy estate, which was the heir`s only residence. The final point in the case was put by the Supreme Court which stressed that since the disputed flat was not a communal flat the sale of the…
12.04.2021
Sergei Bakeshin has commented for the Novy Prospect on the bankruptcy case of the Lebyazhye poultry farm
The commercial court has introduced supervision the Lebyazhye poultry farm, which used to hold almost 50% of the meat chickens production segment. The procedure was initiated on the basis of an application of Torg VS LLC. However, a little later Torg VS LLC was replaced by Valentin Petrovich Zanin in the lawsuit to recover the debt from the…
07.04.2021
Maxim Ali has criticised a bill to resolve consumer disputes online
A bill introducing the order of online pre-court settlement of consumer disputes has been submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation. The document proposes to create a separate service of a public service portal. The service will provide the processes of presentation, review and settlement of disputes arising from the purchase and sale…
02.04.2021
Maxim Ali has illustrated to the DP low compensations problem in business reputation disputes
The RepTrak Company (Reputation Institute), an international consultancy, estimates that Russian businesses have become more than 3 times more likely to use words related to reputation than it was in 2000. These changes show that domestic companies have become more concerned about their reputation. However, there is still acute a problem of…
02.04.2021
Sergei Bakeshin has commented to the Novy Prospect on the seizure of accounts and property of former Sevkabel executives worth about 2.3 billion rubles
The 13th Commercial Court of Appeal has taken interim measures in the amount of 2.269 billion rubles against the accounts and property of top managers and the management company controlling bankrupt company Sevkabel. It should be noted that the mechanism was used as part of a dispute to bring the former executives to subsidiary liability for the…
30.03.2021
Sergei Bakeshin has commented to the Novy Prospect on the prospects of the Lenta founder's bankruptcy petition
Usolie-Sibirsky Khimpharms Plant, a manufacturer of drug substances, has requested a court to declare bankrupt the pharmaceutical company Grotex of Oleg Zherebtsov, a billionaire founder of the Lenta chain. The companies have been in court for over a year over debts of 45 million rubles for the supply of several batches of the drug. It is worth…
22.03.2021
Maxim Ali has named for the Russian Agency for Legal and Judicial Information the main outcomes of 2020 for Russia's legal business
The events of the past year were unprecedented in the recent history: internal self-isolation and international quarantine, political crises in most leading countries and the fall of all financial markets, the radicalization of public initiatives and significant changes in legislation. Maxim Ali, partner at Maxima Legal, spoke specifically for the…
22.03.2021
Maxima Legal expanded its accreditation of the TRUST National Bank
Maxima Legal team has confirmed high level of expertise in insolvency as well as in real estate, land and construction area. So the firm has joined the list of qualified counterparties to be invited by the Trust National Bank to participate in tenders for legal services in these spheres. As a reminder, Maxima Legal was also accredited by the Trust…
19.03.2021