On the 12th of April 2017, leading law firm ranking guide The Legal 500 published the results of their evaluation of legal services based in Russia.

For the fourth time in a row, Maxima Legal's PPP department has achieved a high position in the ranking, sitting alongside other domestic and international firms.

Rating experts have highlighted the "personal approach to client needs" shown by Vladimir Kilinkarov, Head of PPP and a partner at Maxima Legal.

The corporate department has also received recognition from the rating experts, with Managing Partner Maxim Avrashkov and partner Vladimir Kilinkarov named as "noteworthy practicing specialists".

The rating is based on a survey of 300,000 legal clients. The survey system is perfected every year, offering the opportunity to assess the work of legal consultants practicing in over 100 jurisdictions.

The rating has been active for 28 years and is considered to be one of the most objective and prestigious ratings in the world.

We thank our clients for the high appraisal of our work.

On 10 April were published the results of an independent study of the best law firms according to Chambers Europe 2017.

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 the following link.

On 21 March 2017, the Arbitration Court of St Petersburg and Leningrad region reached a decision in respect of a dispute between the D.D. Shostakovich St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonic and Lenenergo.

The team at Maxima Legal successfully represented the interests of the Philharmonic, which had been infringed by Lenenergo. The distribution company had failed to fulfil its obligations under the terms of a contract in respect of a connection to the electrical grid; the company’s contractual obligation had remained unfulfilled for a year and a half after the end date of the contract. Lenenegro only took steps to fulfil the terms of the contract after the Philharmonic had submitted a claim to Court.

The Arbitration Court of St Petersburg and Leningrad region took the side of the Philharmonic, requiring Lenenegro to complete the connection to the electrical grid and to pay to the Philharmonic a sum equal to more than 30% of the overall value of the contract. The Court did not accept the counterclaims made by Lenenegro against the Philharmonic. The network company pointed to a delay from the Philharmonic to follow technical specifications in the contract; the Court considered that the Philharmonic did not have the opportunity to comply the technical requirements due to the improper conduct on the part of Lenenergo.

The fourth Infrastructure Congress, titled Russian Week PPP, the most well-known platform in the sphere of public-private partnership in Russia has recently finished in Moscow.  The leading participants in the market of infrastructure projects, consultants and representatives of governmental departments discussed the problems of implementing PPP projects.  Vladimir Kilinkarov, Partner at Maxima Legal, spoke during a roundtable discussion titled ‘Competitive selection and private initiative: typical mistakes and bottlenecks in legislation’, and commented on the main problems in implementing private investors’ concession initiatives in PPP projects.

On 17 March 2017, Sergey Bakeshin, Head of the Dispute Resolution department at Maxima Legal, took part in an academic and practical conference about bankruptcy organised by the leading St Petersburg business newspaper, Delovoy Peterburg. 

For further information (in Russian), please see the following link.