Evgeny Druzhinin acts as a speaker during the forum “Development and construction in the Leningrad region”

April 28 – 29, 2014 the hotel Park Inn by Radisson Pribaltiyskaya hosted one of the most expected business events of the regional investment market, the forum “Development and construction in the Leningrad region” organized by the Russian Guild of managers and developers in cooperation with the administration of the Leningrad region.

The forum comprised the exhibition of the promising projects and technologies in development and construction accompanied by the hard-driving business programme.

One of its main events was a training conference “Managing and licensing. New laws” an active participant of which was the head of the real estate and construction practice of Maxima Legal Evgeny Druzhinin.  
The main topic for discussion was the mechanisms to increase the efficiency in real estate management as well as analysis of the Russian and international expertise in real estate management cost cutting.

Experts put a strong focus on the matter of licensing the operations of the managing companies. The participants of the discussion did not come to a unified opinion whether the licensing facilitates solving those problems appeared to the housing and public utilities or, on the contrary, deteriorates these problems.

“Licensing is a formal and rigid mechanism. It is purposed first of all at guarantying compliance with the minimum requirements rather than at real improvement of the qualities of the services rendered. But is this the main problem in managing condominiums? I think, it is not,” - stated Evgeny Druzhinin.