Corporate Agreement in the System of Measures to Reduce Sanctions Risks

The article examines issues related to the application of sanctions by unfriendly countries to Russian business entities owned or controlled by individuals subject to personal blocking sanctions, as well as issues related to the development and implementation of measures to reduce the sanctions risks of such companies. The conditions for applying sanctions to organizations associated with sanctioned entities are analyzed; information about business entities, the disclosure of which may lead to the imposition of sanctions against such companies, is also analyzed. The main measures to reduce the sanctions risks of companies are considered. The main focus is on measures aimed at eliminating the legal grounds for the application of sanctions. The article pays special attention to the corporate agreement, which is considered as a legal instrument for ensuring corporate rights and property interests of the controlling person, if necessary, reducing the size of his participation in the business entity to reduce the latter's sanctions risks. The authors of the article conclude that it is possible to include provisions in the corporate agreement that, on the one hand, will ensure that the basic corporate rights and property interests of a person who has reduced his share in the authorized capital of the company are taken into account, and, on the other hand, will not lead to such a person gaining control over the company and, as a result, the application of sanctions. Analytical, logical, comparative, descriptive and other methods were used as the main methods of cognition during the research.

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