The Private Wealth Practice covers a wide range of legal matters connected with clients’ personal assets, including succession planning, structuring of family property, personal investments, transactions relating to real estate, securities, yachts and aircraft in Russia and abroad and other personal matters. Maxima Legal is currently one of the few Russian law firms providing legal services of this type on a professional basis.

We work in close cooperation with Russian and foreign investment companies, bankers, notaries, attorneys, legal and other consulting companies all over the world. For Maxima Legal’s International Projects Group, please see here.

The Maxima Legal team has an English lawyer, who is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales (Robert Houchill) with extensive experience of advising and assisting individuals and companies in respect of UK law.
Robert heads the “Immigration issues” direction under the Private Wealth practice and has significant experience in providing a varietyof legal services in this area, including:

• applications by individuals seeking to enter the UK as entrepreneurs or investors, spouses and partners of British citizens to obtain permission to enter the UK;
• advising on the terms and restrictions of the Immigration Rules on the activities of foreign nationals can undertake in the UK;
• advising individuals wanting to challenge refusals of entry clearance.

Learn more about the Maxima Legal’s “Immigration services” here.

Our Private Wealth specialists provide legal services in the following areas:

• complex succession planning;
• structuring of family property, planning in the event of termination of marriage or family conflicts, preparation for a possible division of property;
• legal support for transactions relating to personal assets in Russia and abroad (real estate, aircraft, yachts, other means of transport, art objects and cultural valuables, securities, antiques);
• legal advice on other matters relating to clients’ property in Russia and abroad;
• consultancy on the immigration matters;
• advising on financial investments, opening accounts and deposits abroad (private banking);
• structuring of the possession of assets for tax purposes;
• advising on personal insurance matters;
• legal advice on immigration matters, assistance in obtaining residence and citizenship abroad;
• professional assistance in situations of conflict in Russia and abroad;
• legal support of clients’ personal philanthropic projects.

Our basic principle in providing these services is a guarantee of complete confidentiality regarding information received in the process of our work.

Our clients of the Private Wealth Practice are wealthy people, including owners of businesses and top managers, their families and inheritors.