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Fraud Corporate Veil

Fraud is the making of false representations or engaging in deceptive behavior in order to unlawfully secure financial or personal gain. 
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Current Developments in Cross-Border Litigation | Enforcement Against Foreign Controlled Party Through Reverse Pierce of the...

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Reverse piercing attaches liability for the judgment to a corporations’ owners and/or directors because they exercise complete dominion of the business, and such domination was used to commit a fraud against the plaintiff....more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

Alter Ego, Equity, and Reverse Veil Piercing for LLCs

Normally, a business entity is considered a legal person separate and apart from its individual owners.  But when the entity is used by an owner to perpetrate a fraud, circumvent a statute, or accomplish some other wrongful...more

Williams Mullen

Delaware Joins Virginia in Allowing Reverse Veil-Piercing Under Certain Circumstances

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Recently, the Delaware Court of Chancery (the “Court”), expanded the potential liability of a parent company’s subsidiaries by allowing reverse veil-piercing in Manichaean Cap., LLC. v. Exela Techs., Inc., C.A. No....more

Whitman Legal Solutions, LLC

Hidden in Orchestra Pits and Behind Corporate Veils

...Corporations and limited liability companies (which I will refer to collectively as a company) can be like a pit orchestra. Depending upon how they are set up, it may or may not be obvious who is behind them. What is...more

Mintz - Bankruptcy & Restructuring Viewpoints

Piercing The Corporate Veil Takes More Than Just Fraud By The Individual

Many of us have endured the nightmare of a disastrous home renovation or at least enjoyed Tom Hanks in The Money Pit (How long? Two weeks, of course). Well imagine spending half a million dollars, not for a new and improved...more

Morris James LLP

Court Of Chancery Explains Jurisdiction For Veil-Piercing

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This is an interesting decision for its discussion on what must be pled to obtain Chancery jurisdiction in a claim seeking to pierce the corporate veil. It is not enough to just allege the entity was used to defraud. Rather,...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Commingling and Personal Piggy Bank Leads to Summary Judgment on Veil Piercing Claims

In Webmediabrands, Inc. v. Latinvision, Inc., No. 601048/2010, the Supreme Court (J. Friedman) pierced the corporate veil at the summary judgment stage. Under New York law, the factors used to determine whether a court...more

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