Maxima Legal’s lawyers have helped protect a fashion industry player from unfair competition
ANSE, one of the largest players in the fashion industry in the Russian faux fur market, instructed to Maxima Legal to protect its clothing designs that a competitor had misused. Maxima Legal lawyers helped the client prove the unlawful use of original designs. The Federal Antimonopoly Service has ruled that Goodwill’s actions amount to unfair…
19.06.2020
Maxim Ali has commented on a bill to unblock Telegram
A bill has been submitted to the State Duma, which proposes to block certain information resources in an emergency situation and on the distribution of information to state authorities and officials. Additionally the draft law will unblock some previously prohibited apps, including Telegram. Many Russian government agencies, including the Ministry…
16.06.2020
Sergei Bakeshin has commented on the duration of insolvency proceedings for heat supply entities in two large districts of St Petersburg
In 2012, Lenteplosnab CJSC, which previously managed heat supply in the Pushkin and Kolpinsky districts of St Petersburg, declared itself insolvent. In 2013, a court appointed administrators, and insolvency proceedings are still ongoing. CJSC Lenteplosnab entered into a simple partnership with the State Unitary Enterprise Pushkinsky TEK, which,…
03.06.2020
The Best Lawyers international rating has listed Maxima Legal in 16 areas and named Maxim Avrashkov lawyer of the year
International ranking Best Lawyers has presented its annual list of Russian lawyers recommended in various fields of law. Seven experts from Maxima Legal were listed. Managing Partner, Head of the Commercial and Corporate department, Maxim Avrashkov, has been listed as one of the leading Russian lawyers for M&A matters. In addition, Maxim…
03.06.2020
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