On April 13th Anna Sabanina, Head of the Marketing and Communications Department of Maxima Legal, participated in the Legal Tech Conference, organized by the Legal Insight, judicial magazine with the support of pravo.ru portal and dedicated to the automation of the legal business, implementation of the specialized software in the legal work.

The event was held in the City Hall of the Fund of Development of the Internet Initiatives, Moscow, snd it was attended by heads of the law companies and the experts in the field of information technologies, improving the efficiency of the legal work.

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On April 21st Maxima Legal, the law company, once again gathered the guests to discuss the topics of the inheritance planning. The event was moderated by Natalia Demina, Head of the Private Wealth practice, and Elena Antonova, company advisor on this practice, spoke about “the pros” and “cons” of inheritance under the law, advantages of inheritance under the will, as well as about the basic inheritance planning tools.

On April 23rd Elena Kilinkarova, counselor of Maxima Legal, the law company, acted as a judge in the finals of Ros-IFA 2016 Competition of the International Taxation-2016.

Final competition, organized by the youth section of the Russian branch of the International Fiscal Association (Ros-IFA), was held in St. Petersburg State University, which team has won the competition in 2015. In the finals with the dignity were competing for the championship the teams of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation and the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the MFA of Russia. The winner of the competition became the team of FU under the Russian Government.

Ros-IFA - Russian non-profit organization that investigates the Russian aspects of the international taxation, the Russian branch of the International Fiscal Association (IFA).

We congratulate the winners of the competition on a well-deserved victory and wish them further success!

On April 25th were published the results of an independent study of the best law firms in 2016 according to Chambers Europe 2016.

Maxima Legal was noted again by Chambers Europe in the category of General Business Law - St. Petersburg.

Today the rating covers 53 jurisdictions in Europe, it has been published since 1990 and is one of the most prestigious legal ratings in the world.

Complete rating of the companies recommended by Chambers&Partners in Russia is available at - http://www.chambersandpartners.com/guide/europe/7/180/1

Maxima Legal company has prepared a new informational digest “Maxima Insight, First Six Months of 2016” on the legislation news, legal practices and industries with the commentaries of the major players on the market, our partners and colleagues.

In this issue Maxima Legal lawyers have prepared an analytical review of the changes in the legislation in the first half of 2016.

Enjoy reading! We will be happy to provide the detailed comments on the issues raised in our review.

On May 29th the Central Park of Culture and Leisure named after Kirov sited the main sports event of the legal society of Saint Petersburg - SPb Legal Run. It was the second time when this competition was held in Saint Petersburg and this year it was attended by more than twenty legal companies of Saint Petersburg, their friends and relatives. The event managed to raise 759 thousand rubles, which will be transferred to Charity foundation “Podari Zhizn”.

This year Maxima Legal team sponsored the event and was present at the running race “en masse”.

We thank everyone for their participation and the great time!

"Leaders Club on promoting business initiatives" in cooperation with the Maxima Legal law firm organizes the Round table “Perspectives of the development of public and private partnerships in the regions of the Russian Federation”, timed to the St. Petersburg’s International Economic Forum-2016.

Their participation in the Round table confirmed the governors of several Russian regions, regional executive authorities in the field of economy and investments, development corporations, the authorities of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, as well as representatives of the business of the north-western region.

During the round table will be held a discussion about the development of PPP as an easy and potentially effective tool for cooperation between the authorities and investors in the economic crisis, the best regional practices in the field of concessions and PPP will be considered.

On May 30th a regular meeting of the Investment Council under the Governor of St. Petersburg was held, which was attended by members of the Leaders' Club. Draft Resolution of the Government of St. Petersburg “On Amendments to the Law of St. Petersburg “On the strategic investment projects, strategic investors and strategic partners of St. Petersburg”. Vladimir Kilinkarov, Partner of Maxima Legal, took part in this meeting as an expert who helped the investment Committee in the development of amendments to this law.

During the meeting the Council has also considered a number of investment projects for their implementation in the city, and signed a concession agreement on the creation, reconstruction and operation of the streetcar network in Krasnogvardeyskiy district of St. Petersburg.

On May 26th, the business forum of the Russian-British Chamber of Commerce was conducted in St. Petersburg Chamber of Industry and Commerce on “Doing business with the UK and the UK”. Participants of the forum were the representatives of St. Petersburg business, interested in the implementation of the business plans in the country of Foggy Albion.

Participants of the forum have spoken with the audience about the practical aspects of doing business in the UK, about the steps needed to achieve this goal. Vladimir Kilinkarov in turn listed the practical features of work with the British lawyers which are likely to be encountered by Russian businessmen.

On May 26th, the informational and educational center of Vodokanal of St. Petersburg, the State Unitary Enterprise hosted a forum dedicated to the issues of public and private partnerships and infrastructure development in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region.

Participants in the dialogue were the representatives of various spheres of business and executive authorities of the region. Under the program of the forum various projects have been discussed in the field of construction, energy, transport, social services (education, health), that were implemented, or had the opportunity to be implemented with the help of the PPP mechanism.

Vladimir Kilinkarov, Head of the Public and Private Partnership (PPP) participated in the first session of the Strategic Forum “Construction and infrastructure projects. How to enhance the opportunities of investors”. In his speech, Vladimir said that the main problem of implementation of the infrastructure projects is their lack of financing and that PPP mechanism and the concession agreements, as a friendly and reliable tools, can solve this problem, although the regulatory framework for these mechanisms still has to be improved and worked out for their better functioning.