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The current legislation of the Russian Federation does not spell out a specific period during which a person can apply to a judicial body for the protection of his rights if it is the issue of the limitation period of stockholding.

According to clause 1 of Article 196 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, the general limitation period is 3 years from the date determined in accordance with Article 200 of the Code.

Clause 1 of Article 200 of the Civil Code stipulates that unless otherwise required by law, the limitation period begins from the day when a person learned or should have learned about the violation of his/hers right and who is the appropriate defendant in a claim on protection of this right.

In other words, the subject of a dispute over the ownership of shares, whose rights and interests were violated, may appeal to the court at any time as soon as he/she learned about the violated right.

Mandatory personnel documents for each employer appear in the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, the Federal Law "On Personal Data", the Federal Law "On Trade Secrets", as well as in the orders and regulations. As a rule, the necessary documents for any organization are the staff schedule, internal work regulations, employee’s job descriptions, documents regarding processing employee’s personal data, vacation schedules, instructions and rules regarding the safety and health protection.

The Civil Code of the Russian Federation provides the participants of a legal entity with the right to conclude a corporate agreement among them, in other words, interaction between participants of an already established legal entity is carried out through this document.

A corporate agreement may provide that the participants undertake to exercise their rights in a certain way or refrain (refuse) from exercising them, including voting in a certain way at the general meeting of participants of the company, to carry out other actions to manage the company in a coordinated way, to acquire or alienate participation interests in the company’s authorized (shares) capital (shares) at a certain price or upon the occurrence of certain circumstances, or to refrain from alienating participation interests (shares) until certain circumstances.

As a general rule, it is not necessary to register such an agreement in the Uniform State Register of Legal Entities.

By virtue of Art. 8 of the Federal Law of 08.08.2001 No. 129-FZ “On the State Registration of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs”, tax authorities register LLC within 5 business days from the moment of filing the relevant application to the registering authority.

The list of documents is envisaged in art. 12 of the Federal Law of 08.08.2001 No. 129-FZ “On State Registration of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs”. Therefore, it is necessary to present to the tax authority:

- An application form P11001;
- A decision to create LLC (if one participant), protocol of the LLC meeting (if more than one participant;
- The legal entity charter (individual or standard);
- The receipt for payment of 4 000 rubles for the state duty.

The Charter is the main constituent document in accordance with which a legal entity operates. It contains information about the legal entity, its full and abbreviated name, goals and areas of activity, legal address, management procedure, size of the authorized share capital, procedure for its reorganization and liquidation.