Maxim Avrashkov, Managing Partner of Maxima Legal for the fifth time took part in the program of St. Petersburg International Legal Forum-2016, which took place on May 18th-20th.

St. Petersburg International Legal Forum (SPILF) for the last six years annually brings together the Ministers of Justice and the judges of the various countries, heads of the international organizations, partners of the law firms - market leaders, heads of the legal departments of major companies, representatives of the state authorities and law schools from more than 80 countries.

IP&IT team of ML headed by Natalia Demina represent a client in one complicated patent case. The case concerns with protection of exclusive rights under patents granted for an inventions in field of the use of different microbial strains. It should be noted that a microbial strain and, moreover, its application is, in practice, quite a rare patent object. Maxima Legal represents interests of a company that deals with issues of high quality composite microbiological fertilizers implementation in our country. ML works on this project together with the Russian patent agent Lyubov Mikhailovna Korchemnaya.

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.