The legal regime of the investment protection and promotion agreement

Introduction: the paper deals with a new contractual structure - the investment protection and promotion agreement, which is one of the investment instruments aimed at stimulating interaction between a public legal entity and a private legal entity. According to the author, Investment Protection and Promotion Agreements are part of a group of investment agreements mediating the mechanisms of a public-private partnership. The purpose of the paper is to study the problems related to the concept, legal nature, and content of the investment protection and promotion agreement. The author also examines the place of the agreement under study in the system of investment contracts and the relationship with related concepts and categories, including the issue of applying the provisions of civil legislation to it.