Legal problems of formation and development of business partnerships in the Russian Federation

The article analyzes some characteristics of business partnerships in comparison with the existing forms of business organizations. The author finds out that business partnerships represent a new legal form of commercial organizations, intermediary between business entities and economic partnerships and having a wide discretion of legal regulation, allowing it to take various forms. The purpose of creation of economic partnerships is to render services in the field of reproduction of objects of intellectual work. In this organizational form, those organizations can be created that are engaged in venture business, for example, law firms providing services in the field of art or media companies. However, despite the attractiveness of economic partnership for risk spheres of business activity, some their essential shortcomings are considered in this article.