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
Maxima Legal was shortlisted for RBC St Petersburg Customer eXperience Awards
Maxima Legal's initiative to improve legal literacy of partners of the firm`s Private Wealth practice has been shortlisted for RBC St Petersburg Customer eXperience Awards survey of best clients service practices. HNWI clients are serviced by companies from different sectors, whose expertise overlaps, but not as competing, but potentially…
29.11.2023
Sergei Bakeshin has commented for Delovoy Peterburg on the statistics of bringing to subsidiary liability
The Commercial Court of St Petersburg and the Leningrad Region refused to bring to subsidiary liability the beneficiaries of two large business empires: ex-senator Alexander Sabadash for RUB 4.3 bn debts of Liviz vodka plant as well as Mushvig Abdullayev, former owner of Trade House Intertorg, which managed SPAR, Semya and Narodny…
27.11.2023
Nikita Deynega has spoken to Cbonds about the latest licence received by Maxima Legal to unlock assets in Euroclear
At the request of Cbonds Weekly News, Nikita Deynega, Counsel, Head of Tax & Administrative Law Practice at Maxima Legal, commented on the licence received by the team to unblock securities and cash of a Russian investor. To watch the interview (in Russain), please see Maxima Legal`s YouTube Channel >>> To watch the…
03.11.2023
Ekaterina Abakumova has assessed for Pravo.ru the clarifications of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on the content of a claim in case of flat flooding
Three court instances found the management company guilty of flooding the flat of a resident of Maikop and ordered it to pay the victim the amount of damage, expert examination costs and compensation for moral damage. At the same time, the courts refused to recover more than half a million roubles in penalties and fines: in order to do so, the…
03.11.2023
Sergei Bakeshin helped Delovoy Peterburg to understand the desire of the ex-head of Baltinvestbank and Deposit Insuranse Agency to settle the dispute amicably
In 2019, the former chairman of the board of directors of Baltinvestbank, Yury Rydnik, was declared bankrupt. According to the decision of the courts of the first two instances, the businessman's financial manager should sell Rydnik's country house, which is pledged by Gazbank, also declared insolvent, with the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA)…
01.11.2023
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
Anastasia Samusenko has commented for RBC Pro on reorganisations recognised by the court as a sham transaction
RBC Pro has studied how the courts practice of recognising sham and pretended transactions is shaping up. For example, the media drew attention to a dispute concerning a reorganisation of aLLC by heirs. Due to a "technical error" of a notary, only two out of four heirs were entered into the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. Before the…
18.10.2023
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
Maxima Legal has received the first positive decisions on unblocking assets in EuroClear
Maxima Legal together with the firm`s European partner has received the first licences from the Belgian Treasury to unblock funds for the European residence permit/ passport and account holders. At the same time, despite the fact that earlier media wrote that applications for licences could be submitted only until 7 January 2023, in reality,…
27.09.2023