Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopts Law “On introduction of amendments into some legislative acts of Ukraine as to protection of investors’ rights”

Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat
07 April 2015, 14:09

In particular, the Law envisions enhancement of protection of rights of investors through:

 

—    introduction of minority investor’s right to appeal in interests of enterprise in compensation of losses;

—    introduction of responsibility of officials of economic entities in case of inflicting losses to economic entities as a result of their [officials’] illegal actions;

—    enabling appealers to receive compensation from economic entity for losses the appealers suffered as a result of judicial consideration of the case opened upon their appeal against an official of the economic entity aimed at compensation of losses inflicted to the economic entity — the amount of the compensation should be within the actual amount of losses inflicted to the economic entity;

—    introduction of the institution of “independent directors,” who will represent interests of minority stockholders at public joint-stock companies;

—    introduction of detailed settlement of contracts of interest that would take in account interests of all stockholders.

 

Respective draft law was registered under No. 2259.