Side agreements between members of limited companies

The thesis analyses shareholders' agreements in limited liability and joint stock companies. In a broader sense, both the agreements concluded by shareholders outside the articles of association or bylaws and the provisions of the constitutional documents which are not attached to shares but only bind the individual shareholders can be classified as shareholders' agreements. The thesis consists of a general and a special part. The objective of the general part is to describe the legal nature, effects, usual content and practical use of shareholders' agreements. Particularly, I intend to detail the main legal issues surrounding shareholders' agreements included in the constitutional documents and to suggest the methods of coping with these problems in the legal practice. Further, I will describe the corporate advantages of the shareholders' agreements as separate legal documents as well as their limits. The objective of the specific part of this thesis is to characterize the selected types of shareholders' agreements in terms of their practical use and legal regulation. I put special emphasis on different kinds of shareholders' voting agreements