A Corporate Agreement as a Means of Exercising of Rights of Parties to Corporate Relations

The article reviews the main existing scientific approaches to the determination of the legal nature of a corporate agreement, its meaning for the settlement of relations between parties to corporate relations and third parties. The author concludes that the nature of a corporate agreement forces to treat it as a business agreement that gives rise to binding relations, however, the relations generated by such agreement cannot be referred to corporate ones. The paper reviews special aspects of the practice of review of disputes over corporate agreements in Russian commercial courts.