Maksim specialises in complicated cases over commercial and ex-officio crimes, gross misconduct at work, and public safety offences.
Maksim has a considerable experience in representing the aggrieved parties, including interests of state-owned corporations, and participated in a number of high-profile criminal proceedings.

Advocate
Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Practices

Maksim Kalinin

Maksim provides all-round protection of businesses in criminal proceedings, including expert evaluation of legal risks inherent in an organisation’s activities, supporting clients at all stages of criminal proceedings, as well as initiating and supporting civil claims within criminal litigation.
Key Projects
  • Defending a client (the general director of a major airline) against the charges of fraud and abuse of power in a commercial organisation with RUB 700 million claimed in damages. Maksim was able to have the client exonerated and released from the courtroom.
  • Representing interests of a state-owned corporation as the aggrieved party in criminal proceedings against the controlling owners of a bank over causing damages to the bank, falsifying reporting, and driving the bank to bankruptcy. As part of these proceedings, a civil claim of RUB 10 billion in damages was sustained.
  • Defending the managers of a major Russian company against charges of alleged embezzlement of RUB 385 million of state funding allocated under an environment protection programme.
  • Defending a client by contesting multiple transactions aimed at unlawful appropriation of its assets and initiating criminal proceedings against bad-faith lenders.
Advocate
Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Practices
Maksim Kalinin