<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>An unfavorable investment climate, especially in the sphere of corporate relationships, necessitates the revision of investment and corporate legislation in Ukraine. The purposes of this study are to reveal the particular legislative defects and the practical problems caused by these defects that European investors may face during the realization of their corporate rights in Ukraine and to evaluate how Ukrainian investment law, particularly legal norms aimed at protection of investors’ rights, corresponds to international (European) standards. This research identifies gaps and contradictions in Ukrainian legislation in the sphere of corporate investment that cause difficulties in practical applications and attempts to find ways to solve these problems. This paper argues that most problems caused by legislative contradictions can be solved by using the rule of the correlation of general and special normative legal acts, unlike legislative gaps, which must be eliminated by appropriate legislative amendments.</p></abstract>

An unfavorable investment climate, especially in the sphere of corporate relationships, necessitates the revision of investment and corporate legislation in Ukraine. The purposes of this study are to reveal the particular legislative defects and the practical problems caused by these defects that European investors may face during the realization of their corporate rights in Ukraine and to evaluate how Ukrainian investment law, particularly legal norms aimed at protection of investors’ rights, corresponds to international (European) standards. This research identifies gaps and contradictions in Ukrainian legislation in the sphere of corporate investment that cause difficulties in practical applications and attempts to find ways to solve these problems. This paper argues that most problems caused by legislative contradictions can be solved by using the rule of the correlation of general and special normative legal acts, unlike legislative gaps, which must be eliminated by appropriate legislative amendments.

Problematic Issues in the Protection of the Rights of European Investors in Corporate Relationships in Ukraine

Baltic Journal of Law & Politics

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An unfavorable investment climate, especially in the sphere of corporate relationships, necessitates the revision of investment and corporate legislation in...

Problematic Issues in the Protection of the Rights of European Investors in Corporate Relationships in Ukraine

Published Online: Oct 23, 2019

Page range: 115 - 136

Received: Jan 06, 2019

Accepted: Jun 14, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjlp-2019-0005

Keywords
Corporate legal entity, the protection of investors’ rights, state guarantees of investors’ rights, civil law means of protecting corporate rights

© 2019 Uliana Yarymovych, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Problematic Issues in the Protection of the Rights of European Investors in Corporate Relationships in Ukraine

Published Online: Oct 23, 2019

Page range: 115 - 136

Received: Jan 06, 2019

Accepted: Jun 14, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjlp-2019-0005

KeywordsCorporate legal entity, the protection of investors’ rights, state guarantees of investors’ rights, civil law means of protecting corporate rights

© 2019 Uliana Yarymovych, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Corporate legal entity, the protection of investors’ rights, state guarantees of investors’ rights, civil law means of protecting corporate rights