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 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 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