Uždarosios akcinės bendrovės akcininko teisės ir jų gynimo būdai

LTMonografijoje nagrinėjama įstatymais numatytų mokios uždarosios akcinės bendrovės akcininko teisių ir teisminių jo teisių gynimo būdų tema civilinės materialiosios teisės požiūriu: įvertinami uždarosios akcinės bendrovės teisinės formos ypatumai, akcininko vaidmens samprata bei civilinių teisinių santykių, susiklostančių tarp akcininko ir bendrovės, pobūdis, pateikiamas bendrasis akcininko teisių ir jų gynimo būdų apibūdinimas, atskirai aptariamos svarbiausios uždarosios akcinės bendrovės akcininko teisės ir jų gynimo būdai, lemiantys uždarosios akcinės bendrovės akcininkų bendradarbiavimo pabaigų. Taip pat apžvelgiama aktuali Lietuvos Aukščiausiojo Teismo praktika, probleminiai nacionalinės teisės normų aiškinimo ir taikymo klausimai bei pateikiami siūlymai teisiniam reguliavimui tobulinti. [Anotacija knygoje]Reikšminiai žodžiai: Bendrovės valdymas; Akcijų nuosavybė; Teisiniai aktai ir įstatymai; Akcininkai; Corporate governance; Share; Legal acts and laws; Shareholders.

ENThe main aim of the monograph is to analyze shareholder rights and remedies in a solvent closed stock company under the substantive Lithuanian Private Law. This topic is chosen for pragmatic reasons; mainly, closed stock companies are dominant in Lithuania and contribution of small and medium-sized business sector, which intensively uses this limited liability business form, is of substantial importance in the current Lithuanian economy. The small and medium-sized business sector is often a place for investors’ cooperation, which is based on investors’ personal characteristics and their personal relationship rather than invested capital. Very often smooth cooperation between shareholders at the start-up develops into a different business approach. Dynamic changes in the business and personal nature of a closed stock company may lead to shareholders conflicts, which mainly include deadlock situations and disagreements between minority shareholder and controlling shareholder. Since shares of a closed stock company are not allowed to be publicly traded and there is no readily available market for such company’s shares, shareholder rights and remedies are one of the major interests for the investors. Moreover, shareholder conflicts may have a negative impact on the company’s activities. Therefore, effective ex lege measures to diminish and solve the conflicts of shareholders while simultaneously balancing different interests involved (e.g. interests of shareholders, company itself and its continuities) should be available and properly understood.Shareholder rights and remedies attracted much interest of legal scholars in foreign doctrine. The national scholars have also examined certain shareholder rights and remedies according to the Lithuanian Law, but the existing works do not analyze the subject matter based on general and systematic approach. The monograph aims to fill the gap in the national legal doctrine in respect of more universal research on shareholder rights and remedies in closed stock companies. In addition, this monograph contributes to the development of the legal doctrine in the Lithuanian Company Law field in general. The object of the monograph is ex lege shareholder rights towards the closed stock company as well as statutory judicial shareholder remedies allowing shareholder to influence the company's activities or, alternatively, withdraw from the company and return investments on reasonable and fair terms. Analysis is limited to the rights and remedies of the owner of ordinary shares in a closed stock company. The examination focuses on shareholder rights and remedies related to the company form rather than typical remedies under the Private Law.The purpose of the monograph is threefold: firstly, to provide proper understanding of the currently available in Lithuania ex lege shareholder rights and company-related shareholder remedies in a solvent closed stock company; secondly, to identify problematic aspects when interpreting and applying the national legislation; thirdly, to evaluate whether the relevant Lithuanian legislation should be modernized. For the purpose, the various methods were used. By systematic method ex lege shareholder rights and remedies were conceptualized not only from the Lithuanian Company Law perspectives, but also in a broader context of the Lithuanian Private Law, as well as inter-relation of selected rights and remedies were evaluated. Since the Lithuanian lawmakers extensively relied on the experience of the other jurisdictions in this field, the comparative method was very important in applying comparative results on the subject-matter from the member-states of the European Union (mainly from England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavian countries) and the United States of America. Comparative method was intensively used to reveal the essence and ground the concept, rationale and goals of the particular shareholder remedies transplanted to the Lithuanian legislation (like enquiry proceedings, expulsion or withdrawal of shareholder) as well as to define the key similarities and differences of the compared legal measures. By employing a teleological method, the monograph explained the meaning of selected ex lege shareholder rights and remedies in light of the aim and objects of the relevant Lithuanian Law. [...]. [From the publication]