Sergey Bakeshin, Head of the Department of Dispute Resolution at Maxima Legal, made a presentation at the first academic-practical conference in the North-West of Russia, Bankruptcy 2017, devoted to the basic tactics and schemes of bankruptcy.  The business newspaper, Delovoy Peterburg, which organised the conference, has published an overview of Sergey’s presentation.

https://www.dp.ru/a/2017/03/27/Strategija_kreditora

On 25 May, Novaya Advokatskaya Gazeta published an article titled ‘Less spam, more confidentiality’, in which lawyers analysed proposed legislation focused on regulating internet instant messengers and providing for users’ confidentiality.

Senior Associate from Maxima Legal, Maxim Ali, commented that operators of instant messengers already have obligations to store data of their users and correspondence between them; passing the new law will imposed further obligations on operators with threat of blocking their messengers should they fail to comply.  Users of messengers in particular will identifiable by unique subscriber numbers.

This is a clear step by the state to make instant messengers a less anonymous place for correspondence. Governmental bodies, when necessary, will be able to find out, not only about the existence of correspondence and their content, but also receive evidence linking correspondence to a specific person.

To read Maxim’s full comments on this topic and the article, please visit: advgazeta.ru

Maxima Legal’s took fourth place in the list of largest legal tenders for May 2017 prepared by Pravo.ru, after it won a tender to represent PAO MRSK Severo-Zapada in the Supreme Court until May 2018.

PAO MRSK Severo-Zapada is one of the leading electricity network companies in the North-western Federal district of Russia.  The company provides electricity in Karelia and Komi, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Murmansk, Novgorod and Pskov regions.  The majority shareholder of the company is Rosseti, a major electricity supplier in Russia.

For the full article on Pravo.ru about the largest legal tenders in May 2017, please click here.

For information about how Maxima Legal is representing PAO MRSK Severo-Zapada in the Supreme Court, please click here.