Procedural Features of the Consideration of Cases on the Recognition of a Transaction as Invalid and the Consequences of Its Invalidity

. The article deals with the issues of legal regulation of consideration of cases on recognizing a transaction as invalid and application of consequences of its invalidity, namely, legal consequences of challenging transactions, which were made by the debtor or other persons at his expense. A review of the procedural peculiarities of this category of cases is carried out. The circumstances to be proved in challenging such transactions are analyzed. The authors conclude that the predominant task is to prove the existence of certain conditions allowing to recognize such transactions as invalid. The explanations given in the Resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation No. 63 dated 23 December 2010 “On Some Issues Related to the Application of Chapter III.1 of the Federal Law “On Insolvency (Bankruptcy)” are analyzed, and a reasonable conclusion is formulated that even now these explanations are subject to application.