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.

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.

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.