One of the thorny issues in disputes between legal entities and their executives is a possibility for a company to bring a claim against its general director for recovery of damages.

Howsoever, the statutory regulation of this issue remains complex and ambiguous, while the case law highlights significant differences in the approach to addressing such disputes.

Obviously, the main trendsetter in the judicial enforcement is the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.  For this reason, Inna Ivanikova, Senior Associate of the Dispute Resolution Practice, based her analysis of the economic essence of damages, recovery of damages in connection with a director's failure to comply with his/her employment law duties and other topical issues on the review of the case law of the Supreme Court and courts of cassation.  The analysis has been published in the EZ-Yurist weekly legal supplement to the Ekonomika I Zhizn newspaper.

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