Private Wealth

The Private Wealth Practice covers a wide range of legal matters connected with clients’ personal assets, including succession planning, structuring of family property, personal investments, transactions relating to real estate, securities, yachts and aircraft in Russia and abroad and other personal matters.

Maxima Legal is currently one of the few Russian law firms providing legal services of this type.

We work in close cooperation with Russian and foreign investment companies, bankers, notaries, attorneys, legal and other consulting companies all over the world. For Maxima Legal’s International Projects Group, please see here.

Our Private Wealth specialists provide legal services in the following areas:

• complex succession planning
• structuring of family property, planning in the event of the breakdown of a marriage or family conflicts, preparation for a possible division of property (including drafting nuptial contracts and property sharing agreements covering corporate and international assets)
• legal support in divorce proceedings on division of property, on maintenance agreements, on determination  the place of residence of minor children, agreements on upbringing and contact, establishing paternity and the removing of parental rights
• legal support for transactions relating to personal assets in Russia and abroad (real estate, aircraft, yachts, other means of transport, art objects and cultural valuables, securities, antiques)
• legal advice on other matters relating to clients’ property in Russia and abroad
• consultancy on immigration matters
• advising on financial investments, opening accounts and deposits abroad (private banking)
• structuring of the possession of assets for tax purposes
• advising on personal insurance matters
• legal advice on immigration matters, assistance in obtaining residence and citizenship abroad
• professional assistance in situations of conflict in Russia and abroad
• legal support of clients’ personal philanthropic projects

A key principle in providing our services is complete confidentiality of information received from clients during the course of our work.

Our clients of the Private Wealth Practice are wealthy people, including owners of businesses and top managers, their families and inheritors.

Lawyers from the firm’s Private Wealth practice are regular contributors to one of the most well-known and respected financial publications in the world – Forbes magazine.

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