Sergei Bakeshin has commented to RBC about the end of a conflict between restaurateurs
Over the past few years, co-owner of the restaurant holding Ginza Project, Vadim Lapin, and his former business partner, Vladimir Spirin, filed around 20 claims against each other with the district and commercial courts. The conflict arose in connection with Spirin’s financial claims, amounting to several tens of millions of roubles, for the…
14.06.2019
Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Rehabilitation Proceedings in Russia // Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Rehabilitation Proceedings - May 2019
The International Lawyers Network Association has engaged Maxima Legal's lawyers in the preparation of an international reference publication Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Rehabilitation Proceedings. Specially for the thematic brochure, associate at Maxima Legal Dmitry Uryakin and the Head of the Insolvency Practice Sergei Bakeshin described the…
14.06.2019
Natalia Diatlova presented Maxima Legal at SPBILF-2019
Natalia Diatlova, Partner of Maxima Legal, took part in the IX St Petersburg International Legal Forum. In 2019, the forum brought together over 5,000 representatives of various segments of the legal practice: attorneys, legal advisors, business consultants, as well as public authorities, academic schools, courts, notaries and international…
20.05.2019
Sergey Bakeshin has provided his comments on an appeal decision to review a case of subsidiary liability
The Commercial Court of the North-Western District has overturned a decision of the St Petersburg and Leningrad Region Commercial Court which refused to impose subsidiary liability on Alexander Kashin for the debts of EnergoCapital Investment Company, a stockbroker which went bankrupt owing around 1.5 billion rubles to creditors. At the same time,…
07.05.2019
Sergey Bakeshin has talked to participants from the business group Equium about subsidiary liability
Head of the Dispute Resolution and Insolvency Practice at Maxima Legal, Sergey Bakeshin, has given a presentation at the business breakfast for business group Equium in St Petersburg. During the event, Sergey explained the mechanism of subsidiary liability, commented on the list of controlling persons, the grounds and timing for imposing…
12.04.2019
International rating Legal500 has again included Maxima Legal
Independent international rating agency, the Legal500, has published the results of its research into the legal market in 2018 and has included Maxima Legal among the leaders in the Russian legal market. The rating has for a number of years included Maxima Legal in its list of experts in the commercial and corporate law, M&A, public-private…
10.04.2019
Sergey Bakeshin has joined the Insolvent Club
The Head of the Dispute Resolution and Insolvency department at Maxima Legal, Sergei Bakeshin, has joined the national association of insolvency specialists and administrators for problematic assets called the Insolvent Club. The association brings together leading Russian lawyers, administrators and academics who specialise in insolvency and…
02.04.2019
Sergey Bakeshin has provided his comments RBC on the insolvency of a joint venture
A joint venture between Pervaya Mebelnaya Fabrika (PMF) and Germany company Alno has been made subject to insolvency proceedings. According to the official position of PMF, the losses of the project result from the dissolving of an entity that was connected with the departure from the business of an insolvent foreign partner. "Judging by the…
15.03.2019
Sergey Bakeshin has provided his comments to DP on the simplified process for interim measures
Delovoy Peterburg, a business newspaper, has analysed the decision of the Russian Supreme Court, according to which in order for interim measures to be issued in insolvency matters, administrators must confirm a reasonable risk that assets may be concealed. At the same time, the judicial board on economic disputes ruled that the efficiency of…
13.03.2019
Maxima Legal invites you to a business breakfast dedicated to the subsidiary liability of top managers and business beneficiaries
Maxima Legal Law Firm invites you to a business breakfast dedicated to the top managers and beneficiaries of the business. Date: 21 March, Thursday Location: Maxima Legal office, 26, Liteyniy prospect, St Petersburg. Time: 10:00-11:30 One of the key bankruptcy outcomes of 2018 was the mass application by arbitration courts of the mechanism of…
13.03.2019