Maxima Legal and Ruspro meet in St. Petersburg with a Delegation from Kuopio, Finland.

On 26 January, 2015 Maxima Legal and Ruspro (the Centre of Foreign Trade Development)  met a delegation from Kuopio, Finland, which included members of Team Finland Kuopio - representatives from Finpro, the Ely Centre for North Karelia, the Ely Centre for Southeast Finland, the Ely Centre for North Savo, Kuopio Innovation Oy, Finnvera Oy, and Savonia University of Applied Sciences.

Key points in the discussion were opportunities for Finnish companies in the Russian market in construction, healthcare, ICT, and educational sectors of the economy. Ruspro provided the Finnish delegation with the results of a study conducted in November-December 2014, regarding precisely which niche markets are open to Finnish producers. In the frame of this study 26 Russian companies were interviewed.

Maxima Legal spoke about recent changes in legislation which could affect cooperation between Russian and Finnish companies, and presented the third edition of the book “Doing Business in Russia”. The book ”Doing Business in Russia” is available for download from our web-site .