A cooperação como um dever jurídico imponível ao controlador de empresa

Abstract

This thesis seeks to examine "cooperation" as a legal duty lying on the firm's controller, who is herein considered both whoever holds control "inside" the society which centralizes the company's business acts ("inner control") and whoever is outside the company ("outer control", which is not provided by Brazilian Corporate Law). Thereby, cooperation is examined under the viewpoint of fields of human knowledge other than Law, building its concept and identifying its essential elements from which to characterize cooperation as a legal duty. Questions related to the firm are also treated in order to address its own concept, the forms of its control ("inner" and "outer" to the company) and the market. Later, the legal duties of the firm's controller are examined hence treating the main duties included in Brazilian Law which address expressly the controlling shareholder, in brief, cooperation perceived as a legal duty derived from the so-called new contractual principles with emphasis in the objective good faith principle, and at last implications, especially on Company Law and market, which are seen as a recognition of cooperation as a enforceable duty to the firm's controller, specially the characterization of a legal reference to "outer" controllers' duties. Therefore, the feasibility of the proposition of this thesis is successfully concluded.