The Delovoy Peterburg has traditionally mentioned Maxima Legal in its annual Rating of Lawyers

The Delovoy Peterburg newspaper, a key business publication in northwest Russia, has published the results of its own annual legal rating, in which the newspaper and market players select the best legal advisers in the city. In 2020, Senior Associate, Head of Dispute Resolution & Insolvency Practices at Maxima Legal Sergei Bakeshin has become…


Sergei Bakeshin has commented for the DP on the bankruptcy case with the total amount of creditors' claims of almost 5 billion rubles

Around 2.5 years ago, Spetsosluzhivostvo CJSC seller of children's goods opened bankruptcy proceedings, which is distinguished by a significant number of creditors and many disputed transactions as well as 4.9 billion rubles the total amount of register claims. Sergei Bakeshin, Head of Dispute Resolution and Insolvency Practice at Maxima Legal,…


Olga Novinskaya has written for an international legal blogs about the latest changes in the regulation of personal data in Russia

Olga Novinskaya, junior associate of IP/IT Practice at Maxima Legal has written to ILN IP Insider and LexBlog international legal blogs an article about the most significant Russian news in the field of personal data regulation. In particular, the expert spoke about the draft laws to combat abuses in the collection of consumer personal data,…


Olga Novinskaya has outlined the prospects of consumer extremism of covid-dissidents for the DP

The first process on a new type of consumer extremism may start in St Petersburg. A man without a mask refused to be served in a store, and now he demands financial compensation for moral damages, appealing to the law on consumer protection. It should be noted that similar cases have already been considered by the courts of other regions that…


Sergei Bakeshin has commented for the Novy Prospect on the court dispute that could end a 15-year corporate conflict

Minority shareholders of PJSC Kirovskiy Zavod tried to recover from the current general director of the company and former members of the board of directors up to 76.3 billion rubles. In their opinion, this is the amount of losses incurred as a result of "offenses against Kirovskiy Zavod and its shareholders that lasted from 2005 to 2015." The…


Sergei Bakeshin has assessed for the Novyi Prospect the consequences of a dispute about the return of the advance payment under the defense contract

JSC Zvezda, the producer of engines for military ships in St Petersburg, is being sued for more than 200 million rubles, of which about 160 million rubles are being attempted to recover from JSC Zvezdochka, the Shiprepairing Center located in Arkhangelsk region. The companies are in a lawsuit because of an advance payment made by Zvezdochka to…


Maxim Ali has commented for the Pravo.ru on dispute about the removal of an irrelevant review from a corporate website

The commercial Court of the Ural District confirmed a client's right to demand the removal of a positive review from the website of a company for which it was given. In doing so, the court departed from a formal approach and used constitutional principles. In particular, the court recalled that the client has a constitutional right to freely…


Sergei Bakeshin has commented for the Novy Prospekt on the repeated auction for the sale of assets of the bankrupt company founded by the former Vice-Governor of the Leningrad Region

In 2018, the Arbitration Court of St Petersburg and the Leningrad Region declared JSC Domostroitelny Kombinat № 5 (JSC DSK-5) as bankrupt. The company was part of GlavStroyComplex, founded by former Vice-Governor of the Leningrad Region Nikolay Pasyada, who was responsible for the development of the construction complex in the region. The total…


Natalia Diatlova has assessed the probability of reimbursement of losses to the investor as part of the PPP for the Novy Prospekt

St Petersburg-based the Medical Investment Solutions Company refused a launch of several polyclinics on a specific type of PPP basis in the Republic of Komi (Russia). The regional authorities provided the investor with 95% less medical assistance, as well as failed to provide the initially promised workload of the medical institution. The Medical…


Maxim Ali has evaluated for the Novy Prospect the chances of the shopping centers to change the city legislation on tax benefits

Five St Petersburg shopping malls asked the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation to check for compliance the city law "On introduction of changes into some laws of St Petersburg about taxes and charges" with the federal law "On competition".  The city bill adopted in July 2020 gives the right to a 50% relief on property tax for…