Participation" in Corporate Organizations and their "Management": Problem of Legal Confirmation and Differentiation of Corporate Relations

The article analyses the concept of corporate relations that have been included into the subject of the civil law regulation as a result of a large-scale reform of the civil law. The definition of corporate relations that first appeared in the RF Civil Code uniquely refers them to the subject of civil law, thus, closing the chapter on a long-existing scientific dispute concerning the legal nature, essence and classification of corporate relations. At the same time, a methodological approach chosen by the legislator for referring corporate relations to relations regulated by the civil legislation, as well as for internal differentiation of such relations, is ambiguous and it generates new disputes that occur amid controversial understanding and interpretation of the challenged legislative innovations. In an effort to clarify the issue in question, the author notes that confirmation of corporate relations in the civil law system is a logical consequence of a normative division of legal entities into corporations and unitary organizations. The paper concludes that the term "corporate" is inextricably linked to the concept of a corporation, and such relations have a legal classification within which they are differentiated into two main types: relations associated with the participation in corporate organizations; relationships associated with the corporate entities management. In order to establish doctrinal and law-enforcement value of dividing corporate relations into the types listed in the article, the author attempts to define the content of categories "participation" and "management" in relation to corporate organizations, as well as to identify legal interrelation of these structures. The author stresses that the existing civil and cross-sectoral legislation lacks terminological uniformity, hence a number of supplementary legal concepts are subjected to analysis: the author compares categories "participation" and "membership", differentiates legal statuses of "founders" and "participants" of a legal entity, analyses such idiomatic structures as "participation in corporation affairs" and "participation in corporation management". The final part of the article provides an assessment of effectiveness of regulatory mechanisms used when corporate relations are implemented and differentiated in the subject of civil law including mechanisms analyzed amidst the relevant provisions of the Draft Uniform Civil Procedure Law of the RF.

corporate relations, corporation, corporate organization, civil legal relations, institutional relations, propitiatory relations, rights in rem, liability right, commercial corporation, nonprofit corporation, unitary organization, participation, membership, corporation management, participation in affairs, participation in governance, reform of civil law legislation

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