During the general meeting of the SPIBA members there were financial aspects of economic development of the city discussed

A senior associate of Maxima Legal, Sergei Bakeshin, took part in the general meeting of the members of the Saint Petersburg International Business Association (SPIBA)  which was held on 3 April 2014 in Saint Petersburg hall of Corinthia Hotel.

During the meeting there were new members of the association introduced and its executives bodies elected.

The principal item on the agenda was a speech of the chairman of the Finance Committee of Saint Petersburg, Eduard Viktorovich Batanov.  The chief financier of the city told the meeting participants about the main figures of the city budget and defined a hundred of Saint Petersburg major taxpayers, among which, as it turned out, there is Zenith soccer club in addition to Gazprom-Neft and large banks and industrial undertakings.