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…


Sergey Bakeshin has explained to Noviy Prospekt the risks to close relatives of insolvent individuals

Administrators for bankrupt former billionaire Andrey Asayev have filed a claim for the bankruptcy of his daughter. The court previously ruled that a transaction to transfer a land plot and cottage to the wife and daughter of the businessman was ineffective and since the recovery of the land plot is not possible, awarded financial compensation.…


Maxima Legal invites participants to a business breakfast on the topic of subsidiary liability of top managers and beneficiaries of businesses

Law firm, Maxima Legal invites participants to take part in a business breakfast on the hot topic of incurring subsidiary liability by top managers or beneficiaries of businesses. Date: 21 February, Thursday Location: Maxima Legal, Liteyniy Prospekt, 26, office 530, St Petersburg Time: 10.00 — 11.30 am One of the key features of 2018 in the sector…


Sergey Bakeshin has provided his comments to Noviy Prospekt

Independent internet publication Noviy Prospekt has published an article which included comments from Senior Associate at Maxima Legal, Sergey Bakeshin. The material, that is available only to subscribers of the publication, covers the circumstances around the recent arrest of former senator Rauf Arashukov and his father. To read the article in…


Sergey Bakeshin has provided his comments to RBC on a conflict over the sale of insolvent assets through an audition

After an audition, Noviye Kommulnalniye Tekhnologii (NKT), as the main creditor of Transportno-logistichesky Kompleks (TLK), can receive the property of its debtor, in particular the multi-purpose terminal Yug-2 to offset its debt. At the same time, Novotrans, a major railway company, which owns more than 75% of the insolvent company’s shares, is…


Russian's leading legal ranking agency Pravo.ru 300 has again ranked Maxima Legal strongly

On 5 December the results of Pravo.ru 300's research of the legal services market in Russia for 2018 was published; Maxima Legal was again included in the list of leading law firms in six areas of law. Maxima Legal was ranked as a leader in the corporate law/M&A and commercial property and construction categories, being placed in the first…


Sergey Bakeshin has provided his comments to RBC about a decision of the Supreme Court to seize residential property from bankrupt individuals

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation passed a decision which overturned lower courts’ decisions to exclude an individual’s primarily place of residence from the assets that could be seized in bankruptcy proceedings – the asset was a five-roomed apartment valued at around 28 million roubles. According to the Head of the Dispute and…


Maxima Legal has strengthened its position in international rating IFLR1000

Independent rating agency IFLR 1000, which specialises in the analysis of international legal services market for financial and corporate law has again included Maxima Legal in three categories. специализирующийся на анализе международного рынка юридических услуг в сфере финансового и корпоративного права, вновь отметил Maxima Legal в трёх…


Maxima Legal and IPG.Estate have held a seminar on the topic of buying property from insolvent companies

Experts from consulting company IPG.Estate, Maxima Legal, St Petersburg Bank and the association of leading arbitration managers ‘Dostoyaniye’ discussed investor interest in property from companies involved in insolvency proceedings, as well as the main issues holding back growth in the sector. Acquiring real estate from an insolvent company is an…


Sergey Bakeshin has listed for RBC the more vulnerable sectors for insolvencies

According to data published by SPARK-Interfax more than 700 companies in St Petersburg are in the processing of being liquidated or are insolvent. At the same time, almost half of debtors are from the wholesale or retail sectors and around 15% are from the construction sector. However, as Head of the Dispute Resolution Practice and Insolvency at…