Брошенные акции «потерянных» акционеров (комментарий к Определению Верховного Суда РФ от 15 декабря 2022 года № 304-ЭС22-10636)

Abstract

Despite the active digitalisation, significant simplification of accounting and identification of the subjects of rights and obligations in the Russian Federation for 30 years, there is a problem of search for “missing shareholders” and creation of a clear and transparent mechanism for the return of shares of a dead or liquidated shareholder. The author makes an attempt to answer the question of the applicability of the analogy of the law, analyses judicial practice and comes to the conclusion about the need for radical resolution of the above problem. The economic essence of the action itself and the form of business of joint-stock companies requires that the rules for determining the fate of the “ownerless” and “escheated” shares and issuer rights to such shares have appeared directly in the law.