On 8 September the St. Petersburg Committee on Investments introduced its own version of amendments to the city law ‘On Establishing the Price of Land in St. Petersburg’, which had been adopted on its first reading.

Evgeniy Druzhinin, Senior Lawyer and Head of Maxima Legal’s Real Estate and Construction Department, commented on this initiative of the St. Petersburg Committee on Investments.

http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2832826

The mortgage is now one of the most popular ways of purchasing real estate, more common in relation to flats in the city than to property in the suburbs. However, there are other ways of purchasing real estate outside the city.

Evgeniy Druzhinin, Senior Lawyer and Head of Maxima Legal’s Real Estate and Construction Department, described the legal aspect of the purchase of residential accommodation: the schemes for the purchase of property that currently exist in the Russian Federation: payment by instalments and by joining residential, residential-building or rent-to-own cooperatives.

http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2830398

An article summing up the briefing ‘Legal Protection of Trademarks and Intellectual Property’, organized by the Russian-British Chamber of Commerce in the ‘Palkin’ restaurant on 29 September, was published in the almanac.

Natalia Zelentsova, a lawyer with Maxima Legal, spoke at the briefing on the subject ‘Legislation: Restrictions on Advertising and Brand Management’.

http://rusmecenat.ru/o-znake-tovarnom-zamolvili-slovo/

In relation to the coming into force of legal provisions concerning the bankruptcy and insolvency of citizens on 1 October 2015, ‘Delovoy Peterburg’ conducted a poll of legal firms to establish whether they planned to work with this category of persons.

Sergey Bakeshin, Senior Lawyer of Maxima Legal, informed the newspaper that the company did not plan to deal with bankruptcy cases of individuals as an independent service, except in cases relating to the restructuring of debts and the bankruptcy of companies whose activities have led to the bankruptcy of citizens.

http://www.dp.ru/a/2015/10/07/Peterburgskie_juristi_rass/

The Government of St. Petersburg is planning to take an inventory of industrial territory from the beginning of 2016. The inventory will be conducted by the St. Petersburg Industrial Policy and Innovations Committee and the City Industrial Investment Agency.

Evgeniy Druzhinin, Head of Maxima Legal’s Real Estate and Construction Department, described cases in his experience relating to the improper use of industrial territory in St. Petersburg:

http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2827636