In Delovoy Peterburg Sergei Bakeshin has written a column on possible changes to bankruptcy legislation

In the near future the Russian Parliament plans to consider a number of amendments to the law on bankruptcy of individuals. At the request of Delovoy Peterburg, the Head of the Dispute Resolution and Insolvency practice at Maxima Legal, Sergei Bakeshin, spoke about the draft law and its possible consequences. “The need to introduce a simplified…


Out of debt to get to zero. About the extrajudicial bankruptcy of citizens // Delovoy Peterburg – February 2020

In the near future the Russian Parliament plans to consider a number of amendments to the law on bankruptcy of individuals. At the request of Delovoy Peterburg, the Head of the Dispute Resolution and Insolvency practice at Maxima Legal, Sergei Bakeshin, spoke about the draft law and its possible consequences. Out of debt to get to zero. About the…


Sergei Bakeshin has talked with Kommersant about the trends in the Russian insolvency market in recent years

One of the outcomes of 2019 in the construction market of the Leningrad Region was a surge in the number of developers being declared insolvent. Even large companies fell under the knife, the financial difficulties which were not widely known a couple of years ago. According to Sergei Bakeshin, Head of the Dispute Resolution and Insolvency…


Sergei Bakeshin has assessed the effectiveness of seizure of Intertorg property in a case with Sberbank

The Commercial Court of St Petersburg and the Leningrad Region seized the property of Trading House Intertorg, which managed the Spar and Narodnaya 7ya Semya retail chains. Interim measures apply to movable and immovable property of the company and rights to it, as well as to funds in accounts for about 500 million roubles. The initiator of the…


Sergei Bakeshin has provided his comments to RBC on Sberbank’s intention to petition for the insolvency of a large agricultural holding in the north-west of Russia

Sberbank intends to petition for the insolvency of a large producer of pork GK Agroholding Pulkovsky, which includes two enterprises in the Leningrad and one in the Novgorod region. The reason for the financial claims were debts on a loan. “Probably Sberbank is trying to restructure the company's debt, especially since it has pledged shares in the…


Sergei Bakeshin has commented to RBC on the insolvency of the management company of the Spar and Narodnaya 7ya Semya chains 

The total value of claims against the liquidated Intertorg Trading House, which managed the Spar and Narodnaya 7ya Semya chains in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, has reached almost 15 billion roubles. The largest lender to the retailer, Sberbank, filed several claims for a total amount of 8.1 billion roubles, as well as claims for…


Sergei Bakeshin has commented on the insolvency of Ulmart for RBC

LLC Ulmarket, the company to which in 2017 the owners of Ulmart transferred all operating activities, has filed for insolvency. In 2019, against the backdrop of a persistent drop in turnover, the online retailer owed suppliers more than half a billion roubles. The Head of the Dispute Resolution and Insolvency practice at Maxima Legal, Sergei…


Sergei Bakeshin has clarified the financial situation around a company managing a number of supermarkets

The company Intertorg, which is behind the SPAR and Narodnaya 7Ya Semya retail chains in St Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, has gone into liquidation. According to the commercial court, almost 400 claims totalling over 5.6 billion roubles have already been filed against the company. Market players estimate that the retailer's debt to…


Sergei Bakeshin has commented for RBC on the liquidation of one of the legal entities of a company following a tax conflict

Officers from the Federal Security Service and the Tax Inspectorate for large taxpayers carried out an audit of the activities of company LLC GPK Land, which is in the process of being liquidated. According to Fontanka.ru, the audit is related to alleged underpayment of taxes in the amount of about 600 million roubles. “According to media reports,…


Maxima Legal has been accredited by the Russian Direct Investment Fund

Maxima Legal announces that it has successfully completed the pre-qualification process for the right to provide legal advice to the Russian Direct Investment Fund. Following an open tender, the firm has been included in the panel of legal advisors for the next two years, until 10 December 2021.