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
Maxim Ali has revealed to the Vedomosti the key trends in Russian legal market
The coronavirus pandemic has strengthened trends in the Russian legal services market. For example, firms that retained the resources to bring in new staff have gained an advantage. "They were able to bring in new lawyers at no extra cost, even if the lawyers had previously worked for a higher-level competitor," Maxim Ali, partner at Maxima Legal,…
19.03.2021
Sergei Bakeshin has commented for the Pravo.ru on the ruling of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on choice of law
A Russian car manufacturer and a subsidiary of a Chinese supplier of parts are in litigation over the contract which prescribed resolving differences under Swedish law. However, the courts in three instances refused to allow the companies to apply Swedish law to the dispute. The Russian Supreme Court sent the dispute back for reconsideration,…
18.03.2021
Kommersant Publishing House confirms Maxima Legal's expertise in 34 nominations of its own legal rating
Kommersant Publishing House has published its own annual research of legal business in Russia. According to the results, Maxima Legal has confirmed its reputation of one of the leading legal advisors in Russia with 34 rating nominations. In particular, the Kommersant has included the company in its list of recommended law firms in 13 practice…
17.03.2021
Maxim Ali has commented for the AG on Sergei Zuikov's proposals on trademark protection and opposition procedures
On request of the Advokatskaya Gazeta newspaper Maxim Ali, partner and head of IP/IT practice at Maxima Legal, has prepared response to an article, written by Mr Sergei Zuikov, one of the leading Russian specialists in trademark law. Commenting on his colleague's publication, Maxim agreed, that today the main legal problem can be called "the right…
02.03.2021