Erschienen auf www.mondaq.com und lesenswert im Hnblick auf die Grundsätze und Gefahren des Piercing the Corporate Veil in den USA, der Blick in die diesbezüglichen Rechtsprechungen der Common Law Länder wie UK, Kanada (ausgenommen Quebec) und USA lohnt.
„The UK Supreme Court has granted permission to appeal in a case that raises important issues regarding the legal doctrine of „piercing the corporate veil“. The decision in VTB Capital Inc. v. Nutritek International Corp. will give the Court an opportunity to clarify when the veil should be pierced, and whether the legal effect of doing so is to constitute the company’s controlling minds as actual parties to its agreements in derogation from the privity of contract doctrine. Given the many contexts in which veil-piercing is relevant, and the lack of definitive guidance about it from the Canadian Supreme Court, it is likely that the influence of the VTB case will extend beyond England into Canada, and indeed throughout the Commonwealth. Hier der vollständige Artikel.
