Maxima Legal – Among the Market Leaders in Personal Funds According to “Pravo.ru”
The analytical study by “Pravo.ru” highlighted the key market players who have been supporting the creation and management of personal funds over the past two years. Maxima Legal ranked in the top group across all research categories: Specialization of consultants in personal funds Total value of transferred assets…
07.07.2025
Natalia Demina commented to Pravo.ru on the accelerated registration of personal funds after the transfer of authority from the Ministry of Justice to the Federal Tax Service
In the summer of 2024, amendments to the legislation were adopted, simplifying the procedures for registering and managing personal funds, significantly strengthening the confidentiality protections for founders, and expanding opportunities for asset structuring. One of the key changes…
07.07.2025
Kommersant Publishing House has included Maxima Legal in the list of leaders of the legal market in Russia-2025
Kommersant Publishing House has published the results of its own annual survey of the legal business in Russia. Maxima Legal has confirmed its reputation as one of the leading domestic legal consultants, having been recognised in 25 rating categories, 18 of which are in the 1st band of the survey. It should be noted that Kommersant has included…
24.04.2025
Natalia Demina has discussed prospects and risks of private funds with RBC Pro
Joint wills of spouses, inheritance funds, private funds, and inheritance agreements — these legal structures were introduced into Russian legislation in 2022, just as wealthy Russian testators began facing challenges using similar instruments in the West. Among these, the private fund has emerged…
18.04.2025
Pravo-300 rating included Maxima Legal team in the list of recommended lawyers for the sixth time
Pravo-300, the key Russian legal rating, has published individual recommendations of lawyers practising in various areas of law. According to the results of the research for 2024, personal recognition in 11 nominations was given to 9 Maxima Legal lawyers who played a leading role in the firm's most highly rated projects for the period from…
12.03.2025
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District Commercial Court rules in Favor of Maxima Legal's client in recovery of unpaid eurobond coupon income from JSC "GTLK" for bonds held in foreign depository
Sergei Bakeshin, Senior Counsel and Head of Dispute Resolution & Insolvency Practice at Maxima Legal, convinced the court that JSC "GTLK" as a Russian legal entity with obligations related to eurobonds issued by its foreign subsidiary must fulfill these obligations not only to holders whose rights are recorded in Russian…
04.03.2025
Arina Merkureva has explained to Delovoy Peterburg newspaper why after the death of one of the founders, a business can be declared bankrupt and its co-founders can be held subsidiary liability
RostFinance Bank is seeking to recover RUB 23 m. from a businessman who died in 2022. The businessman acted as a guarantor on a loan to a business in which he was a co-founder and pledged his flat and land plot as security. At the bank's request, the Commercial Court of St Petersburg and the Leningrad Region declared the deceased citizen…
04.03.2025
Elizaveta Pastushenko has told DP about the difficulties associated with the change in the rules for calculating fees for registration actions with real estate
From 1 January 2025, new rules for the calculation of fees for registration actions involving immovable property come into force. Instead of the previous RUB 2,000 for the standard registration of a transfer of ownership rights, a progressive scale has been introduced depending on the cadastral value of the property. In this case, the amount of…
22.01.2025
Delovoy Peterburg and Novy Prospect quoted Sergey Nikitenko's explanation of the purpose of creating personal funds
The mechanism of a personal fund as a form of asset management was introduced in Russia by law in 2022. The founder's property (real estate, securities, shares in organisations, etc.) with a total value of at least RUB 100 m is transferred to the personal fund by right of ownership. At the same time, the data on the founder, assets and…
25.12.2024
Sergey Nikitenko has told the Legal Information Agency about the peculiarities of granting loans between individuals on the security of real estate
Specially for the Legal Information Agency, Sergey Nikitenko, Associate of the Private Wealth practice at Maxima Legal, told whether a flat can be pledged as collateral for a loan between private individuals and how such an encumbrance is removed: ‘The legislation does not prohibit loans between individuals, including loans secured by real estate.…
23.12.2024