Signs of a convertible loan agreement as a transaction

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The article discusses the features of a convertible loan agreement from the perspective of a civil transaction. Its characteristic features as an investment transaction are determined, taking into account the peculiarities of this type of contractual obligations. It is established that the convertible loan agreement is a bilateral, reimbursable, consensual/real, causal transaction, while it has the signs of aleatory, conditionality and fiduciary.

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Roman V. Anan’ev

Arbitration Court of the Volga Region

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Russian Federation, Kazan

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