Sergei Bakeshin has commented for RBC on a bankruptcy case initiated after the death of a debtor
Sberbank filed for the bankruptcy of a St Petersburg entrepreneur Ivan Kara, who died in 2018. The businessman owned a 51% stake in the Pulkovsky agricultural holding, which the bank also began to bankrupt in early 2020 in connection with a total loan of 255.7 million roubles. After the death of Ivan Kara, a cross-ownership scheme was applied to…
02.06.2020
Maxim Ali has commented on the position of the Supreme Court in a dispute over exclusive rights
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation overturned the decisions of three lower courts and sent for re-hearing a case an intellectual property case. The court ruled that the previous decisions were based on an erroneous understanding of the findings of an expert’s report regarding a patent and the contents of the formula. The higher court…
28.05.2020
Maxim Ali has commented on key recent trademark disputes for Pravo.ru
At the request of Pravo.ru, Maxima Legal, Head of Intellectual Property and Information Law Practice, Maxima Ali, spoke about some of the most notable recent trademark cases. According to Maxim, as the array of such cases accumulates, an increasingly interesting and diverse practice appears, which is sometimes no less important for lawyers to make…
15.05.2020
Sergei Bakeshin has commented for RBC on Rosbank declaring St Petersburg businessman, Maxim Ivanov, bankrupt
Rosbank petitioned for the bankruptcy of St Petersburg businessman Maxim Ivanov, affiliated with Ligovskoye LLC and a number of VTF Foodline distribution companies, which the bank requested to be declared insolvent last year. Assessing the prospects of litigation with Rosbank, the Head of the Dispute Resolution and Insolvency practice at Maxima…
18.04.2020
Sergei Bakeshin has commented on Delovoy Peterburg about a dispute involving the co-owner of a restoration company who has incurred subsidiary liability
Tristar Investment Holdings JSC is trying to bring subsidiary liability in the amount of 4.6 billion roubles to Viktor Smirnov, co-owner of the Intarsia restoration company, which was declared insolvent in 2016. As part of the case, the claimant managed to seize the assets of a number of legal entities, which Viktor Smirnov allegedly owns through…
17.04.2020
Compelling the transfer of a land plot to a concessionaire // InfraDesk - April 2020
For InfraDesk, a resource that publishes news and useful materials on the infrastructure projects market and public-private partnerships, Natalia Diatlova, Partner and Head of the PPP practice at Maxima Legal, analyzed the decision of a commercial court on the dispute over the transfer of the land to a concessionaire. To read Natalia’s detailed…
15.04.2020
Sergei Bakeshin has talked to RBC about administrative liability for quarantine breaches
St Petersburg restaurateur Alexander Zatulivetrov, co-owner of the SkyRest group, intends to open his restaurants on 15 April, despite the current ban on the operation of food outlets due to the coronavirus epidemic. At the same time, the businessman is ready to introduce additional safeguards to protect visitors. According to RBC Petersburg…
10.04.2020
Dmitry Uryakin has evaluated bills on virtual court hearings
Since mid-March, in connection with the coronavirus pandemic, Russian courts have only considered cases that do not require the parties to be called, as well as those of an urgent nature. Senators Alexei Russkikh and Andrei Klishias have initiated bills allowing parties to participate in online hearings. A hearing in this format must be…
07.04.2020
Sergei Bakeshin has commented on the insolvency of a manufacturer of energy equipment Zvezda-Energetika
At the end of March, the tax inspectorate froze the accounts of Zvezda-Energetika JSC, a major Russian manufacturer of energy equipment, among whose customers are Gazprom, Lukoil, Rosneft and other leading Russian companies. The freezing of funds stopped the company from paying off more than 1 billion roubles in debts with some creditors already…
06.04.2020
Sergei Bakeshin has commented to Delovoy Peterburg following a court’s decision to reduce the penalty for the defence contract by 6.5 times
The Moscow Commercial Court decided to recover from the Pella shipyard in St Petersburg 446.8 million roubles for late delivery of the Karakurt rocket-artillery ship to the Ministry of Defence. The initial requirements of the military department amounted to 2.93 billion roubles, the court recognised that the calculation as correct, but considered…
31.03.2020