On 8 October 2015 at 5pm (Moscow time) the Institute for the Development of State-Private Partnerships, in conjunction with Maxima Legal, will hold a webinar on the subject of state-private partnerships. The leaders of the webinar will be Vladimir Kilinkarov, Head of Maxima Legal’s Public-Private Partnership Department, and Evgeniy Druzhinin, Head of Maxima Legal’s Real Estate and Construction Department.

The following questions will be discussed during the webinar:

• Problems of identifying an appropriate grantor/public partner in a public-private partnership project. The problem of identifying the person authorized to sign the project agreement on behalf of the grantor/public partner.
• Separate problems relating to the definition of the object of agreement in a concessional/public-private partnership agreement and to granting an investor the property necessary for the implementation of a public-private partnership.
• The granting of land to the concessionaire/private partner for pursuing the activity specified in the concessional/public-private partnership agreement: practice, problems.

Anyone who wishes can take part in the webinar. Registration is here.

Vladimir Kilinkarov, a partner at Maxima Legal and head of the PPP practice, comments on the new PPP law for the «Partnership Bulletin» issue. 

A regional conference of the Siberian Federal district on the topic "Public-private partnership: a useful means of area development under economic crisis circumstances" was organised on September 10 by the government of the Omsk Oblast, supported by the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, Leaders' Club and the law firm Maxima Legal.

Representatives from the Ministry of economic development of the Russian Federation, Vnesheconombank, Sberbank Rossii, ANO Agency for Strategic Initiatives, government bodies of subjects of the Russian Federation, as well as leading Russian specialists in the PPP area (lawyers, consultants, financing organisations, higher education institutions' representatives) all took part in the event.

Vladimir Kilinkarov, a partner at Maxima Legal and head of the PPP practice, moderated a session "Experience of PPP mechanisms application in Siberian Federal district areas, while Evgeniy Druzhinin, senior lawyer, head of the Real Estate and Construction practice, took part in a discussion with governmental bodies' and business representatives.

Apart from the official section of the event, the conference participants enjoyed a cultural programme, which included: a trip to the centre for Civil War history study, located in the temporary residence of A.V. Kolchak in Omsk and a hockey match between the Omsk "Avangard" and Tolyatti "Lada".

A list of media publications related to this event is available here. (all publications are in Russian language only)

On 10 August Maxima Legal was rated by Acquisition International magazine in the following categories: Sustained Excellence in Dispute Resolution 2015, International Law Firm of the Year, Dispute Resolution Practice of the Year and IT Focused Law Firm of the Year.

http://www.acquisition-intl.com/2015-maxima-legal-llc

The regional conference of the Siberian Federal district on the topic "Public-private partnership: a useful means of area development under economic crisis circumstances" was organised by the government of the Omsk Oblast, supported by the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, Leaders' Club and the law firm Maxima Legal and was highlighted in the following media: (all available in russian language only)

Ministry of economic development of the Novosibirsk Oblast

Omsk Province: government portal of Omsk Oblast

Omsk regional entrepreneurial union

Antenna7 (video report)

Omsk Oblast Television

Continent Sibir Online

Vremya Omsk

IA Omsk Region

Civil airport administration

Vecherny Omsk

AviaPort Digest

A detailed post-release with pictures can be found here.