One of the world’s most reputable legal directories Chambers & Partners ranked Maxima Legal (formely – Maxima Consulting & Law) in its famous Chambers Europe 2014 list (section General Business Law, St. Petersburg).

General business law practice of Maxima Legal headed by the managing partner Maxim Avrashkov has been highly appreciated by international experts.

The ranking is based upon the annual analytics research of the regional legal market. It reveals the most remarkable results shown by the market’s key players over the year.

“It is really pleasant and inspiring for us to be recognized by our foreign colleagues and enter such listings as Chambers, IFLR 1000 or the Legal 500 “, says Maxim Avrashkov,  “I believe this is the result achieved by the efforts of our whole team”.

The leading real estate market experts met on the 14th of April in Holiday Inn St. Petersburg hotel. The head of real estate and construction of Maxima Legal, Evgeny Druzhinin, performed at the round table Apartments: the format nuances – concept, project, effective management, equipment….

The program was moderated by Dmitry Sinochkin, the managing editor of the newspaper Nedvizhimost i stroitelsto Peterburga. The heads of the largest development companies of the Northern Capital, advisers, representatives of managing companies and law firms were among the invitees.  

The discussion was focused on the specifics of apartment hotels as a new format in the real estate market in some way combining features of residential and commercial apartments. Management issues were in the limelight: there were discussed advantages and disadvantages of various management methods and reasonableness of additional expenditures at the design stage for subsequent sufficient cost-cutting in course of operation.

“Apartments are really a delicate format”, Evgeny Druzhinin emphasized in his speech, “apartment management equally affects interests of several parties: lessees, managing company, investors and owners living in the apartments on their own. Today no lawful apartment management model accommodating the balance of all interests has passed the reality-check yet”.

International directory The Legal 500 once again included Maxima Legal law firm to the list of the main Russian legal market players. Maxima Legal PPP practice, headed by Vladimir Kilinkarov, was honored with high appreciation of the global experts.

The results are available here

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For more than twenty years, the Legal 500 Series stays one of the most authoritative  Global Legal market information sources.  The analytics research results draw a big interest of corporate counsel, CEOs, CFOs and professional advisers. These results are valued on a par with Chambers and Partners and Martindale-Hubbell.

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