Vladimir Kulinarov, the partner of Maxima Legal, told publication «Partnership Bulletin» about the process of elaboration of the Model Business Act “About public-private partnership” for states – the participants of NIS (Newly Independent States):

A Model Citizen // «Partnership Bulletin» - Vollume 20. Issue 1. – February 2015. - P. 30-31

Evgeniy Druzinin, the head of the real estate and building section of the company Maxima Legal, arranged the survey for the corporate publication “GMDNews” concerning making amendments into the Land Code and into the Town-Planning Code:

A year in the law// “GMDNews” - № 1 (15). – February, 2015. – P. 4

Vladimir Kilinkarov, a partner of russian law firm Maxima Legal, told British magazine about his work to develop a new model law on PPP’s for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region:

A Model Citizen // «Partnership Bulletin» - Vollume 20. Issue 1. – February 2015. - P. 30-31

On 26 January, 2015 Maxima Legal and Ruspro (the Centre of Foreign Trade Development)  met a delegation from Kuopio, Finland, which included members of Team Finland Kuopio - representatives from Finpro, the Ely Centre for North Karelia, the Ely Centre for Southeast Finland, the Ely Centre for North Savo, Kuopio Innovation Oy, Finnvera Oy, and Savonia University of Applied Sciences.

Key points in the discussion were opportunities for Finnish companies in the Russian market in construction, healthcare, ICT, and educational sectors of the economy. Ruspro provided the Finnish delegation with the results of a study conducted in November-December 2014, regarding precisely which niche markets are open to Finnish producers. In the frame of this study 26 Russian companies were interviewed.

Maxima Legal spoke about recent changes in legislation which could affect cooperation between Russian and Finnish companies, and presented the third edition of the book “Doing Business in Russia”. The book ”Doing Business in Russia” is available for download from our web-site .

In December 2014 Maksim Avrashkov – managing partner of Maxima Legal – became a member of the Expert Group of the Strategic Initiative Agency to monitor implementation of the Standard in
St. Petersburg.

Membership in the Expert Group gives representatives of business society an opportunity to affect the process of shaping an investment policy within the constituent entity of the Russian Federation while maintaining a partner dialog with the government authorities.

The Expert Group is the public advisory body created by the Agency in each constituent entity of the Russian Federation from among representatives of business unions, investors and entrepreneurs, specialists and experts.

The main objective of the Expert Groups is to evaluate efficiency of institutes and instruments established in the region and operating in accordance with general requirements of the Standard.