The issue of absent shareholders

Purpose: To address the problematic issues concerning absent shareholders. Methodology: Systematic-structural, sociological, historical-legal, social-legal, comparative-legal and statistical methods were used in the course of study. Results: Proposals and decisions are based on the analysis of the current regulatory legal provisions of the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan Republic. The high relevance and practical significance of this paper lies in the analysis of missing shareholders. The special significance of this study is that the theoretical provisions developed by this work can be used for further study and consideration of the legal regulation of the rights of absentee shareholders in the future. Novelty/originality/value: This article is of high scientific value because it is one of the hot issues in the first attempt to consider the legal regulation of absentee shareholder’s rights.