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!

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.

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.