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Shareholders' Agreement as an Instrument for Regulating Stock Turnover of the Non-Public Joint-Stock Companies in the Law of the USA and Russia: Comparative Analysis

Student: Samoylova Mariya

Supervisor: Georgy Tsepov

Faculty: School of Law

Educational Programme: Jurisprudence (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2019

The article deals with the issue of absence of non-public joint-stock companies stock market in the USA and Russia and the method shareholders’ agreement may regulate stock turnover. The article provides a comparative legal analysis which compares closely held corporations and corporate agreements in two mentioned jurisdictions. The author comes to a conclusion that shareholders’ agreement can be considered as artificial stock market by resolving the problems of protecting interests of minority shareholders and by providing option terms and conditions relating to participation in the management in shareholders’ agreements. Keywords: shareholders' agreement, share, closed companies.

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