Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 280: Listen and Learn -- Piercing the Corporate Veil
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 120: Listen and Learn -- Piercing the Corporate Veil
Michael Jackson died in 2009. After his death, two plaintiffs filed complaints against two corporations of which Michael Jackson was the sole shareholder. The trial court sustained the plaintiffs' demurrer setting up...more
By: Jeffrey M. Haber This Blog has previously written about the benefits of forming a corporation or a limited liability corporation and the perils of ignoring the corporate formalities that are attendant thereto. In today’s...more
"Outside reverse veil piercing" allows a shareholder's creditor to reach corporate assets. In Postal Instant Press, Inc. v. Kaswa Corp., 162 Cal. App. 4th 1510 (2008), the Fourth District Court of Appeal rejected outside...more
Delaware has long been a preferred jurisdiction for business formation, partly because of its well-developed body of case law with respect to commercial disputes (which makes predicting the outcome of – and thus resolving –...more
In an granting a motion to dismiss a counterclaim for veil-piercing, Chancellor McCormick recently reminded litigators that “veil piercing is a tough thing to plead and a tougher thing to get.” ...more
Reverse veil piercing involves subjecting an entity to the liabilities of its owner. As Professor Bainbridge has noted, there are two types of reverse veil piercing...more
Earlier this year, Houston Harbaugh wrote on the then-pending Pennsylvania Supreme Court case of Mortimer v. McCool, which presented the question of whether the Court would adopt the “enterprise” or “single entity” theory of...more
Creative attempts to ‘pierce the corporate veil’ sometimes come before the Courts of Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, and the Cayman Islands. In some cases, an attempt is made to establish personal liability on the...more
Under Delaware law, the doctrine of “piercing the corporate veil” has traditionally been used only in circumstances where there has been serious misconduct, and in such cases the Delaware courts have only applied this...more
In a case of first impression, Vice Chancellor Joseph R. Slights III in Manichaean Capital, LLC v. Excela Technologies, Inc., C.A. No. 2020-0601-JRS (Del. Ch. May 25, 2021) refused to dismiss a claim to use reverse...more
Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we have another episode in our "Listen and Learn" series, where we review a substantive area of the law and apply that law to fact patterns. This time we're looking at...more
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, we have another episode in our "Listen and Learn" series, where we review a substantive area of the law and apply that law to fact patterns. This time we're looking at...more
The law in Tennessee on “piercing the corporate veil” has not substantially changed since our last blog on the subject. The Tennessee Court of Appeals has recently, and cogently, restated and reconfirmed the state law...more
The sprawling saga of the M. Knoedler & Co. Gallery forgery scandal is approaching a full decade since the storied gallery closed abruptly in 2011 (fuller background further below). The last pending civil suit related to the...more