Maxima Legal takes part in SPIEF 2015

Maxim Avrashkov, Managing Partner of Maxima Legal, took part in the 19th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, held from 18 to 20 June.

A record number of delegates attended this year’s Forum – 10,000 people from more than 100 countries. Numerous international agreements were signed and hundreds of events took place. With each passing year the high level of the participants and the productivity of the business meetings and discussions reinforce the Forum’s status as a leading world platform for taking investment decisions.

As a member of the Leaders Club Maxim Avrashkov also visited a specialized event organized by the Agency for Strategic Initiatives: a round-table discussion entitled “Access Permitted: The Participation of Small and Medium Businesses in the Purchases of Infrastructural Monopolies and Companies with State Participation”.

In addition, Maxima Legal, in conjunction with the Leaders Club and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, organized its own event at the Forum: a round-table discussion entitled “Prospects for the Development of Public-Private Partnerships in

Regions of Russia”. The participants included representatives from regional executive authorities in the fields of economy and the attraction of investment, heads of development corporations and agencies for attracting investment. The main subject of the discussion was regional public-private partnerships in the social and communal fields: the construction of kindergartens, schools and municipal swimming pools, the reconstruction of boiler-houses, and so on.