Maxima Legal has strengthened its rating in The Legal 500
Independent international rating agency for leading law firms, the Legal 500 has included Maxima Legal in its list of recommended law firms in three categories. The editors of the rating included Maxima Legal in the category of Private Client, giving a high assessment of the firm’s advisory services for succession planning, personal investment and…
12.04.2018
Maxima Legal has again been included in the map of the legal market in St Petersburg
Delovoy Peterburg has published a study titled ‘The map of legal services in St Petersburg’, which compares 51 regional law firms, including regional offices of federal and international companies. The studies includes the number of hours spent by the law firms on assisting clients in 2017 and also the spread of workloads over 16 practice areas…
28.03.2018
Sergey Bakeshin has been included in a ranking of the top three St Petersburg lawyers for winter 2017/18
Delovoy Peterburg has published the results of its ranking ‘Lawyers of the Season. Winter 2017/18’. Senior Associate and Head of the Dispute Resolution Practice at Maxima Legal, Sergey Bakeshin has been included in the Disputes category. Sergey came in third place with his case on protecting the interests of a client in a dispute over the…
22.03.2018
Maxima Legal has been included among the leaders in the legal market in Chambers Europe 2018
Rating agency Chambers & Partners has published its latest international rating of law firms, Chambers Europe 2018. As in the previous publication, Maxima Legal has been listed in the category of General Business Law – St Petersburg. The editors of the ratings emphasised that the firm is well-known in the local market as well as among…
12.03.2018
Sergey Bakeshin has provided his comments to Pravo.ru on the dispute involving Trust bank
Website Pravo.ru has prepared an overview of the cases being considered by the Supreme Court this week. Among the cases is an appeal involving the Trust bank and the payment of the holders of credit notes. Credit notes (certificates issued in subordinated debts) are securities made by a foreign company that issued subordinated loans to the bank.…
27.12.2017
Vladimir Kilinkarov has written an article for DP.ru titled “Arbitration clause as a guarantee for a concessionaire”
Delovoy Peterburg has published a column written by Partner and Head of the PPP Practice at Maxima Legal, Vladimir Kilinkarov, which covers the topics of arbitration disputes regarding concession agreements. In his article, Vladimir writes about the popularity of using the ‘infrastructure mortgage’, which according to the plan of the country’s…
30.10.2017
Sergey Bakeshin has represented the interests of the Trust bank in the St Petersburg City Court
On 14 June, the St Petersburg City Court reached a decision in favour of Maxima Legal’s client, Trust bank, in respect of a dispute concerning credit notes. On hearing the appeal of the bank, the court overturned an earlier decision of Oktyabrisky regional court, which had been in favour of the holder of credit notes, and declined in full the…
23.08.2017
Maxima Legal has won two tenders from MRSK Severo-Zapada
Legal news website Pravo.ru has published the results of tenders for a contract to represent the distribution grid company Severo-Zapada. The winning bid for this work was made by Maxima Legal. As part of the bidding process, lawyers were required to represent the interests of the subsidiary Rosset (at an appeal stage before the regulator) in an…
23.08.2017
Sergey Bakeshin has represented the interests of the Trust bank in the St Petersburg City Court
On 14 June, the St Petersburg City Court reached a decision in favour of Maxima Legal’s client, Trust bank, in respect of a dispute concerning credit notes. On hearing the appeal of the bank, the court overturned an earlier decision of Oktyabrisky regional court, which had been in favour of the holder of credit notes, and declined in full the…
16.06.2017
Sergey Bakeshin has represented the interests of the Trust bank in the St Petersburg City Court
On 14 June, the St Petersburg City Court reached a decision in favour of Maxima Legal’s client, Trust bank, in respect of a dispute concerning credit notes. On hearing the appeal of the bank, the court overturned an earlier decision of Oktyabrisky regional court, which had been in favour of the holder of credit notes, and declined in full the…
15.06.2017