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…


Lawyers from Maxima Legal have given a presentation on the investment opportunities in St Petersburg

Lawyers from Maxima Legal took part in the second Russian-Chinese Economic forum, ‘Eastern perspective of the Russian economy’, organised by the Higher School for Economics in St Petersburg. The forum has become a platform for specialists from Chinese business, directors and top-managers of Russian and international companies as well as…


Natalia Diatlova has taken part in the 9th Annual Legal Forum organised by Kommersant

On 31 January Natalia Diatlova, Partner and Head of the PPP Practice at Maxima Legal, took part in the 9th Annual Legal Forum organised by business newspaper Kommersant dedicated to the completing of a year review of legislative activities and an evaluation of their effect on business. The participants in the event included directors and top…


Maxima Legal has once again ranked highly in the annual review of the legal market by Delovoy Peterburg

Business newspaper Delovoy Peterburg has published the results of its research of the legal market in St Petersburg for 2017. Law firm Maxima Legal has been ranked strongly in positions for the following practices:International law, PPP, commercial law, insolvency, tax law, property and construction and IT/IP. To view the full results of the…


Natalia Diatlova has taken part in the Infra Summit 2017

Natalia Diatlova, Partner and Head of the PPP Practice at Maxima Legal, has taken part in the Infra Summit 2017 that took place on 15 December in Moscow. The event covered PPP and the prospects in the Russian infrastructure market and brought together experts with proven experience in PPP projects.  The event is a productive space for the exchange…


Maxima Legal announces that Natalia Diatlova has joined the firm as a partner

Maxima Legal  has appointed a new partner in the firm, Natalia Diatlova, who is an expert in the fields of public-private partnership, real estate, corporate and commercial law and M&A transactions. Natalia has extensive experience having worked in international law firms for more than 15 years.  Natalia was previously Counsel and Co-head of…


Head of the Tax Practice at Maxima Legal, Elena Kilinkarova was part of the jury for a contest organised by IFA on international taxation

On 29 April in Moscow the final of the sixth annual contest for young section of the Russian branch of the International Fiscal Association took place. The annual contest started in 2012 and consists of moot courts with mock cases between tax authorities and taxpayers on current matters of international taxation. Elena Kilinkarova, Counsel at…


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…


Roundtable event ‘The new investment programme of Cyprus: how to receive the most from the programme and what the potential tax consequences may be for Russian citizens’

On 30 November, Maxima Legal together with its Cypriot partners, law firm Antis Triantafyllides & Sons LLC, organised a roundtable event on the topic of ‘New investment programme of Cyprus: how to receive the most from the programme and what the potential tax consequences may be for Russian citizens’. Recently migration has been playing an…


Roundtable event ‘The new investment programme of Cyprus: how to receive the most from the programme and what the potential tax consequences may be for Russian citizens’

On 30 November, Maxima Legal together with its Cypriot partners, law firm Antis Triantafyllides & Sons LLC, organised a roundtable event on the topic of ‘New investment programme of Cyprus: how to receive the most from the programme and what the potential tax consequences may be for Russian citizens’. Recently migration has been playing an…