To the question of the activities of public and non-public companies: Russian and foreign aspect

Legal regulation of joint-stock companies is currently under close atten- tion of the legislator, since joint-stock companies are the most important for the present economy organizational and legal form of business entities, which allows in its economic activities to attract large financial resources. The purpose of the study is to analyze the problems associated with the re- form of the current legislation. As part of the reform of civil legislation, the American model of division of joint-stock companies was adopted, accord- ing to which the fundamental differentiation is the division of corporations into public and private. Since 2014, the Civil Code of the Russian Federation has stopped dividing joint-stock companies into open and closed, instead of these forms, public and non-public joint-stock companies have appeared (article 66.3 of the Civil Code). Since 01.07.2015 newly created joint-stock company cannot become public at once. It can be non-public and has the right to get further the status of public society according7...