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 Delovoy Peterburg about the trends and forecasts for insolvency and restructuring
Business newspaper, Delovoy Peterburg has published an article with forecasts for the legal market. Representatives from the legal sector in insolvency and restructuring gave their projections that a clearing of petitions for technical insolvency filed ‘as a preventive measure’ will take place, since, according to Sergey Bakeshin, Senior…
08.02.2018
Maxima Legal leaded a business breakfast on issues of directors and beneficiaries incurring personal liability for the debts of companies
On 6 February, Maxima Legal leaded a business breakfast titled ‘Guilty without guilt or we are all in this together. New rules on directors and beneficiaries incurring personal liability for the debts of companies’. In the summer of 2017, new sections were added to Russian insolvency law that dramatically changed the procedures for individuals…
06.02.2018
Maxima Legal has again been listed as one of the leading law firms in Russia according to the ratings of IFLR 1000
International independent ranking agency, IFLR 1000, which specialises in the analysis of the international market for legal services in the sphere of financial and corporate law has published the results of its research for 2018. The ratings have again recognised the work of Maxima Legal is the practice of ‘Restructuring and insolvency’ and…
12.10.2017
Sergey Bakeshin has taken part in a conference organised by Vedomosti on the topic of insolvency legislation
On 15 September 2017 in Moscow the third annual conference titled 'The Institute of Insolvency in Russia. Practice and Technology and Conducting Insolvency Proceedings' took place. During the event, Senior Associate at Maxima Legal and Head of the Practice for Dispute Resolution, Sergey Bakeshin took part. At the conference current matters…
19.09.2017
Sergey Bakeshin has taken part in a conference organised by Vedomosti on the topic of insolvency legislation
On 15 September 2017 in Moscow the third annual conference titled 'The Institute of Insolvency in Russia. Practice and Technology and Conducting Insolvency Proceedings' took place. During the event, Senior Associate at Maxima Legal and Head of the Practice for Dispute Resolution, Sergey Bakeshin took part. At the conference current matters…
18.09.2017
A simplification of the documentation required when establishing a legal entity
Since 1 January 2017 an entry on the register of companies and entrepreneurs is now the only document required to confirm the registration of a company or entrepreneur. The registers containing such records in Russia are the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (USRLE) and the Unified State Register of Individual Entrepreneurs (USRIE). Under…
13.01.2017
Sergey Bakeshin takes part in the 8th Annual Legal Forum by Kommersant
On 16 December 2016, the 8th Annual Legal Forum, under the heading of ‘Review of 2016: laws and business’ organised by business newspaper Kommersant, took place at the law faculty of St Petersburg State University. During the forum Sergey Bakeshin, Head of the Dispute Resolution department at Maxima Legal, made a presentation on the topic of…
18.12.2016