Maxima Legal team has successfully conducted due diligence (legal review) of a large set of assets in Moscow planned to be purchased by the Group of Companies “Etalon”. This set included, in particular, a few companies and over one hundred different types of real estate facilities (buildings, constructions, land plots). As part of due diligence issues of corporate law, privatization, real estate and urban development, land, antitrust and labor legislation, big amount of commercial and financial agreements were thoroughly analyzed. ML experts submitted to the client a detailed report on due diligence (over 300 pages) as well as a specified list of risks to assess feasibility of entering the project.

Legal firm Maxima Legal took part in the qualification-based selection organized by OOO “Sberbank Investitsii” in order to form a register of accredited legal services suppliers.

On August 10, the tendering committee summed up the results of selection, based on the results of which Maxima Legal entered the register of accredited suppliers on the block “Court proceedings in the RF.”

General information about the competition is available on the following link: http://zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/documents.html?noticeId=4030107&epz=true&style44=false

Elena Kilinkarova, Counselor, Head of Tax Law Practice of Maxima Legal joined the editorial board of the new journal “Gosudarstvennyi i munitsipalnyi finansovyi control” of the Publishing Group “Yurist”. E. Gracheva Doctor of Juridical Science, Professor, D. Vinnitskii Doctor of Juridical Science, Professor, M. Ivlieva Candidate of Juridical Science, Associate Professor and other outstanding figures of modern jurisprudence also joined the staff of the editorial board.

The journal is aimed at the broad audience: civil servants of different levels, lawyers of enterprises and institutions, attorneys and barristers, representatives of science, accountants and auditors whose scientific interests and practical activity are connected with issues of cash flow control, performing duties in the financial market as well as in the area of insurance, taxation, formation of state and local budgets.

http://lawinfo.ru/catalog/magazines/gosudarstvenniy-i-municipalniy-finansoviy-kontrol/

As part of practice Private Wealth experts of Maxima Legal together with international partners advise a private client conducting business in the area of agro-tourism and real estate in different jurisdictions on issues of international tax planning. In this case, our company is developing the structure of the clients ownership of the assets referred by the client (real estate objects, financial assets and so on) for the purpose of optimization of these assets taxation taking into account interests of the client and requirements of applicable legislation of Russia, Austria, Romania and Malta.

Last weekend Maxim Avrashkov, managing partner of law firm Maxima Legal participated in a strategy session of Leaders Club in St Petersburg and Leningrad Region.

During dynamic two-day strategy session members of Leaders Club developed key principles of business alliance for St Petersburg unit. In the second part of the event the presentation of a few projects that would be implemented with participation of Leaders Club took place.

Oleg Grinko, a member of the professional community of directors “Direktorium”, Chairman of the Board of Directors of ZAO “Sberinvest” (ZAO “Upravliaiushchiia kompaniia “Sberezheniia I investitsii”) took part in the strategic session of the Club. He spoke about management system in Tavrida Electric.
Dmitri Yalov, Deputy Chairman of the Government of Leningrad Region – Chairman of the Committee for Economic Development and Investment Activity, Julia Ludinova head of the project office of the Administration of St Petersburg were also guests of the event. Representatives of state executive bodies (SEB) spoke about principles of project management implemented in the regions and project offices created, designed to improve the investment climate of Leningrad Region and St Petersburg.

Summing up the strategic session the regional coordinator of Leaders Club Vyacheslav Traktovenko thanked all members of the Club for productive work and noted the importance of such event for St Petersburg unit. “We conduct the strategic session already for the second time and today we can confidently say that we have performed really a lot from the things planned in 2015. Not all goals set last summer have been achieved, but we will make maximum efforts to overcome all obstacles on our way.”