St Petersburg legal community named Maxima Legal one of the best law firms in the city, and Leonid Filanovskiy was named the Advocate of the Year
For the fourth time Delovoy Peterburg newspaper summarised the results of "Yurtop: Team Scoring" the rating, a survey of St Petersburg based law companies on the assessments of the market participants. The opinion of the professional community once again confirmed the level of Maxima Legal's expertise. The company was ranked among the…
24.04.2024
Sergey Tarasevich told Cbonds Weekly News what an investor should take into account when exchanging blocked assets
Investicionnaya Palata Broker announced the strategy of accepting bids for the redemption of frozen assets and published the prices from which the auction will begin. As previously announced, the prices are taken from foreign exchanges at the end of trading on Friday, 22 March 2024. It is assumed that foreign investors will buy these assets from…
28.03.2024
In a commentary for DP Nikita Deynega has suggested on what grounds structures associated with Roman Abramovich could have been excluded from the data on the founders of the companies reconstructing New Holland
The Unified State Register of Legal Entities has become inaccessible to information on participants of Novaya Gollandiya Development LLC and a number of other companies, the owner of which until recently was considered to be the Cyprus-based Protonius Investments Ltd, which in turn is considered to be controlled by Roman Abramovich. Nikita…
28.02.2024
Maxima Legal's official telegram channel was included in the list of the most reputable legal channels
Maxima Legal's telegram channel has been ranked among the Top 100 legal channels and Top 50 corporate legal channels in terms of audience engagement, taking 47th and 28th places respectively. The research was conducted by Veta Expert Group, the Flavita bureau and more than 80 legal market experts. For the first time, about 450 legal telegram…
30.01.2024
Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper recommends 9 Maxima Legal lawyers in 11 areas of legal support
For the first time ever, Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspapaer conducted a large-scale survey of the Russian legal market and compiled its own Rating of Lawyers and Their Companies. The professional recognition was given to 9 Maxima Legal specialists practising in 11 of the 16 main categories of the ranking. According to the publication, "getting into the…
05.12.2023
Maxim Avrashkov commented for Delovoy Peterburg on Maxima Legal's experience in unblocking assets in Euroclear and shared his vision for the development of this practice
In February 2022, three months before the EU imposed sanctions on the Russian national depository (NSD), the Belgian depository Euroclear suspended any transactions with NSD, which resulted in the "freezing" of Russian investors' securities and funds. However, cases of both unblocking of assets by obtaining individual licences from the Belgian…
30.10.2023
Maxima Legal obtained a licence for securities blocked in EuroClear
In October 2023, Maxima Legal received its first licence from the Belgian Treasury for both cash and securities of a Russian private investor. It should be recalled that earlier favourable decisions were only for funds. In our application to the Belgian regulator on behalf of a Russian client with a Cypriot residence permit and account, we asked…
12.10.2023
Natalia Diatlova spoke about legal aspects of working with China and the CIS countries at the St Petersburg Medical Forum
The XVI St Petersburg Medical Forum took place in St Petersburg from 24 to 26 May. Representatives of Russia's largest medical organisations and relevant authorities discussed topical issues ranging from development scenarios for Russian healthcare and the medical services market under sanctions to the digitalisation of healthcare. Natalia…
29.05.2023
Maxima Legal lawyers told Forbes what will change in business laws in 2023
In the past year, Russia regularly introduced amendments to legislation that changed the rules of the game for entrepreneurs. Nikita Deynega, Senior Associate and Head of Tax & Administrative Law Practice at Maxima Legal, explained to Forbes Russia that the main trend in 2022 was the reactivity of changes: many of the amendments to laws were…
09.01.2023
Maxima Legal has applied for EuroClear to unblock the assets of Russian investors and has also submitted a request to the Belgian Ministry of Finance and a complaint to the European Commission seeking a review of the Belgian Ministry of Finance's stated conditions
Maxima Legal team has applied to the Belgian Treasury for a licence to unblock EuroClear assets from more than twenty private investors. Recall that on December 22, 2022 the Belgian Treasury published the terms of unblocking of NSD's assets in EuroClear, which had to be fulfilled until January 7, 2023. Due to short deadline and necessity to…
09.01.2023