Pravo-300 rating once again has confirmed Maxima Legal’s leading position in the Russian legal services market
On 5 December, the results of Pravo-300, the key Russian rating of law firms, were announced. Maxima Legal once again confirmed the highest level of expertise of all practices of the firm, have received professional recognition in 15 areas of research. At the same time, more than half of the company's awards were ‘gold’.On 5 December, the results…
06.12.2024
Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper recommended 12 Maxima Legal lawyers in 12 areas of legal support
For the second time, Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper conducted a large-scale survey of the Russian legal market and compiled its own ‘Rating of Lawyers and Their Companies’. According to the newspaper, ‘getting into the rating is the result of recognition of the quality of work and reputation of a particular specialist’: more than 2,000 applications…
05.12.2024
Olga Finogenova has commented for Pravo.ru on a dispute that reached the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation regarding the recovery of losses incurred due to the cancellation of an international flight in 2022
In early March 2022, in connection with the recommendations of Rosaviatsia dated 5 March 2022 to suspend international flights due to the threat of aircraft arrest abroad, Aeroflot notified passengers of the cancellation of the Maldives-Moscow flight and refunded the money for the tickets. After returning to Russia, the passengers demanded…
05.12.2024
Kommersant and Forbes quoted Anastasia Samusenko's suggestion about the impact of the developer's dispute with the Russian Prosecutor General's Office on the deal with one of Raven Russia's assets
Raven Russia, the UK-based warehouse developer, whose assets have been placed under interim measures at the suit of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office, has sold its business centre in St Petersburg. The buyer was the structure of Elena Nekrasova, the wife of Alexander Nekrasov, a member of the Federation Council, who also owns several…
18.11.2024
Sergei Bakeshin analysed for DP the specifics of disputes between UniCredit Bank and the management company of Pulkovo Airport
The 9th Commercial Court of Appeal has received UniCredit Bank's appeal against the decision of the Moscow Commercial Court, which in September recovered RUB 62.5 m in unjust enrichment and RUB 12.5 m in interest from the financial institution in favour of the St. Petersburg-based Northern Capital Gateway LLC (NCG, management company of Pulkovo…
28.10.2024
Kirill Katkov analysed for Vestnik Arbitrazhnogo Suda Moskovskogo Okruga magazine a dispute that raised the issue of determining the terms of tort liability of the owner of premises in the event of a fire
Especially for Vestnik Arbitrazhnogo Suda Moskovskogo Okruga magazine, Kirill Katkov, Associate at Maxima Legal, reviewed the positions of the parties and expressed his professional opinion on the case on recovery of material damage caused by a fire in a non-residential building. It should be noted that the case in question also raised the issue…
17.10.2024
Dmitry Uryakin discussed with DP the specifics of disputes between Russian businesses and foreign counterparties
Peterburgskiy Traktorniy Zavod (Petersburg Tractor Plant), a manufacturer of agricultural and industrial machinery, is involved in a series of disputes with foreign counterparties. In particular, a complaint has been filed by GKN Walterscheid Getriebe GmbH, a British manufacturer of vehicle parts, from which the Commercial Court of St Petersburg…
14.10.2024
Dmitry Uryakin analyzed for DP the actuality of disputes over the exclusion of “dead souls” from JSCs
The Delovoy Petersburg newspaper drew attention to the persistence of a large number of corporate disputes. Thus, in 2023 the Commercial Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region considered more than 3 thousand such cases, and in January-June of this year - 1.6 thousand. At the same time, one of the urgent problems for joint-stock companies…
21.08.2024
Maxima Legal won a court case against Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V. in the interests of a Russian investor
Maxima Legal obtained a court decision to recover unpaid coupon income and unpaid redemption amounts of securities blocked on NSD's account from Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V. in favour of a Russian citizen. The practice in disputes with the European depositories Euroclear and Clearstream is generally similar in favour of Russian investors, but…
07.08.2024
Dmitry Uryakin assessed for Pravo.ru the position of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on the issue of whether the lease return act is the only confirmation of lease termination
In mid-2017, the tenant notified the landlord of the termination of the agreement and vacated the building at the beginning of the following month, and two years later received a return notice - about the rent arrears for a year and a half in the amount of RUB 12.3 mn. The first instance stated that the lease return act had not been drawn up for…
02.08.2024