Maxim Avrashkov, Managing Partner of Maxima Legal for the fifth time took part in the program of St. Petersburg International Legal Forum-2016, which took place on May 18th-20th.

St. Petersburg International Legal Forum (SPILF) for the last six years annually brings together the Ministers of Justice and the judges of the various countries, heads of the international organizations, partners of the law firms - market leaders, heads of the legal departments of major companies, representatives of the state authorities and law schools from more than 80 countries.

Vladimir Kilinkarov, Partner, Head of Maxima Legal, Public Private Partnership on May 20th took part in the II Annual Conference “Public-private partnership in the transport sector: models and experiences”, organized by the Higher School of Management of St. Petersburg State University.

Vladimir Kilinkarov was invited as an expert in the conference section of the PPP-debates “The new Russian law on PPP: opportunities and constraints in the transport sector.” Among other participants of the discussion were Andrey Vitalyevich Kiselev, Deputy Head of Infrastructure Financing Department, VTB Capital, Alexey Borisovich Chichkanov, Executive Vice President of Gazprombank, Olga Anatolyevna Potiforova, Head of PPP Department and External Relations Directorate for the development of the transport system in St. Petersburg and Leningrad region, as well as the top managers of the companies, implement PPP projects, heads of legal departments and legal advisors.

IP&IT team of ML headed by Natalia Demina represent a client in one complicated patent case. The case concerns with protection of exclusive rights under patents granted for an inventions in field of the use of different microbial strains. It should be noted that a microbial strain and, moreover, its application is, in practice, quite a rare patent object. Maxima Legal represents interests of a company that deals with issues of high quality composite microbiological fertilizers implementation in our country. ML works on this project together with the Russian patent agent Lyubov Mikhailovna Korchemnaya.

Maxima Legal was included in the list of the recommended law firms of Russia in the category  of “Corporate, Commercial Law/ Mergers and Acquisitions” (St. Petersburg) and “Public Private Partnership” (Russia), according to The Legal 500 EMEA.

On April 13^th were published the results of 2016 research of an independent international rating of the best law firms, The Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

For a complete rating of the companies recommended by The Legal  500 in Russia please visit: http://www.legal500.com/c/russia/legal-market-overview

On April 11th, the Agency for Strategic Investments of St. Petersburg hosted a presentation of the concept of implementation of the projects on construction of the hotels in the city with use of the concession agreements. The discussion of the issue has brought together the investors, representatives of the Investment Committee and legal advisers in the field of the public-private partnership.

Maxima Legal became a partner of this event and developed a legal model of implementation of the concession project in the field of hotel infrastructure in St. Petersburg.

Vladimir Kilinkarov, Partner, Head of Practice of the Public-Private Partnership, in his presentation on the topic “Concession as a Mechanism for Creating the Objects of Hotel Infrastructure in St. Petersburg”, has presented a scheme of interaction of the concedent and the concessionaire in this area.

Third Global Charity Race of the Lawyers this year will be held on May 29th in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Novosibirsk and other Russian cities. Global Legal Run brings together the representatives of the professional community of lawyers from 14 countries of the world. Funds raised as a result of this event will go to support the persons in care of “Podari jizn'” Charity Foundations.

This year, the entire team of the Maxima Legal team will take part in the race.

Vladimir Kilinkarov, Partner and Head of the Practice of Maxima Legal, Public Private Partnership, has participated in the Third Infrastructure Congress “The Russian Week of PPP”, held in Moscow from March 29th to April 1st.

The event is the largest of its kind in Russia and CIS countries, attracts the representatives of the federal, regional and local authorities, Russian and the foreign investors and experts in the field of infrastructure and the public private partnerships.

Vladimir has spoken in a number of sections on the legal aspects of the public private partnerships and new legislation in this area.

As part of the collaborative dispute resolution practice and tax law practice the ML team provided the consultations to the client on the use of a rare mechanism of tax collection, involving the recovery of the tax in court not from a taxpayer, but from other persons. It shall be noted that the practice of application of the relevant provisions of the tax law has not yet been developed, and this category of the disputes is new for the Russian courts.

ML team, uniting the experts in the tax law practice and the dispute resolution practice, has accomplished an adoption of the resolution by the arbitration court of appellate instance on revocation of the decision of the tax authority on additional charge of the ML client of an income tax and penalties in the amount exceeding RUR 80 million.

“Delovoy Petersburg” summarized the traditional rating of the lawyers. Sergey Bakeshin, Senior Lawyer of Maxima Legal, shared the second place in the rating with Alexandra Popova, lawyer of “Lex Kledere Consulting” and Andrey Mikonin, Partner of “S&K Vertical”.

http://www.dp.ru/a/2016/03/20/Domashnie_pokazali_klass/