Sergey Bakeshin has provided his comments to Delovoy Peterburg on insolvency statistics for the current year

Delovoy Peterburg has analysed the total number of court decisions on the insolvency of legal entities in Russia over the past nine months. By comparison with the previous year, the number of insolvencies in St Petersburg has increased by 2%. On the basis of industry, construction companies were the most common legal entities to be made……


Sergey Bakeshin ha provided his comments to Delovoy Peterburg about the insolvency of Baltiiskya Solodovennaya Kompaniya

In July Promsvyazbank, which is under sanctions from the Central Bank, announced its intention to petition for the insolvency of Baltiiskya Solodovennaya Kompaniya (BSK); however, the company pre-empted the bank and petitioned for its own winding-up, on the basis of which insolvency will proceed on a simplified procedure. According to Senior…


Sergey Bakeshin has taken part in a seminar in the Moscow office of GSL

On 29 May, Head of the Insolvency Practice at Maxima Legal, Sergey Bakeshin took part in a joint seminar with GSL titled “Risks for the owners of foreign companies. Corporate veil or amnesty of capital – which to choose?”. Sergey gave a presentation on the topic of subsidiary liability of controlling individuals and explored one of the variants of…


Maxima Legal is organising a seminar titled ‘Risks to the owners of foreign companies. Corporate veil or amnesty of capital.  Which one to choose?’

Maxima Legal and GSL are organising a joint seminar titled ‘Risks to the owners of foreign companies. Corporate veil or amnesty of capital.  Which one to choose?’. As part of the event, the Head of the Insolvency Practice at Maxima Legal, Sergey Bakeshin will talk about one of the options of ‘lifting the corporate veil’, which provides for the…


Sergey Bakeshin on the so-called zero insolvency procedure in Delovoy Peterburg

Delovoy Peterburg has published an article about a presentation given by the Head of the Commercial and Dispute Resolution Practice at Maxima Legal, Sergey Bakeshin, at the conference Insolvency 2018.  Sergey’s presentation was on the so-called zero insolvency procedure about the opportunities to petition and judicial outcomes, as well as on the…


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…


Sergey Bakeshin has commented on the insolvency of an agricultural holding

Canadian supplier of agricultural products, Ronald A. Chisholm Limited has petitioned for the insolvency of OOO Kontsern Pulkovsky, which owns three pig farms in the Leningrad and Novgorod regions.  Both companies include Nathan Hunt in their management. As part of an article for Delovoy Peterburg, Senior Associate and Head of the Dispute…


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…


Sergey Bakeshin has taken part in the Insolvency 2018 conference

On 21 March, Delovoy Peterburg together with Fedresurs, Interfax and the International Insolvency Institute organised the second regional academic and professional conference Insolvency 2018. Senior Associate, Head of the Corporate and Dispute Resolution Practices at Maxima Legal, Sergey Bakeshin gave a speech as part of the session titled ‘Court…


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…