On April 21st Maxima Legal, the law company, once again gathered the guests to discuss the topics of the inheritance planning. The event was moderated by Natalia Demina, Head of the Private Wealth practice, and Elena Antonova, company advisor on this practice, spoke about “the pros” and “cons” of inheritance under the law, advantages of inheritance under the will, as well as about the basic inheritance planning tools.

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!

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

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 May 29th the Central Park of Culture and Leisure named after Kirov sited the main sports event of the legal society of Saint Petersburg - SPb Legal Run. It was the second time when this competition was held in Saint Petersburg and this year it was attended by more than twenty legal companies of Saint Petersburg, their friends and relatives. The event managed to raise 759 thousand rubles, which will be transferred to Charity foundation “Podari Zhizn”.

This year Maxima Legal team sponsored the event and was present at the running race “en masse”.

We thank everyone for their participation and the great time!