Lifting the Corporate Veil in UK Law

  • Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd
    • Supreme Court
    • 12 Junio 2013
    ... ... Jack Murphy, a director of PRL and the corporate secretary of the three respondent companies, who ... companies' assets by piercing the corporate veil. This was because the authorities showed that the ... which according to the husband started lifting oil in 2010. In the company's financial ... ...
  • Adams v Cape Industries Plc
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 Julio 1989
    ... ... 63 19. As to control over corporate activities: the corporate, as opposed to ... " in the section dealing with the "corporate veil argument". We shall consider contention (3) and ... 860) as follows: "Third, lifting the corporate veil. A further very interesting ... ...
  • Standard Chartered Bank v Pakistan National Shipping Corporation and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 06 Noviembre 2002
    ... ... has been held permissible to lift the corporate veil, e g where the company is a mere façE7ade, ... Although Aldous LJ referred to lifting the corporate veil, the question of the limited ... ...
  • D.H.N. Food Distributors Ltd v Tower Hamlets London Borough Council
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 04 Marzo 1976
    ... ... licence; third, that we should lift the corporate veil and treat D.H.N, as the owners. And that, in ... 16 Third, Lifting the Corporate Veil. A further very interesting ... ...
  • VTB Capital Plc v Nutritek International Corpn
    • Supreme Court
    • 06 Febrero 2013
    ... ... rate swap, on the basis that RAP's corporate veil could in the circumstances be pierced and ... The terms "piercing" and "lifting" appear throughout the authorities, sometimes ... ...
  • VTB Capital Plc v Nutritek International Corporation
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 Junio 2012
    ... ... second and third defendants and other corporate entities involved, the claimants are in a ... that the court should pierce the corporate veil of RAP so as to show that Marcap BVI, Marcap ... If the arrival at this result requires a lifting of Burnstead's corporate veil, then I regard this ... ...
  • Ben Hashem v Al Shayif
    • Family Division
    • 17 Abril 2009
    ... ... , permits the ‘piercing of the veil of incorporation’, (ii) the ambit and extent of ... it is appropriate to pierce or lift the corporate veil. ii) Second, and given, she says, ... If the arrival at this result requires a lifting of Burnstead's corporate veil, then I regard this ... ...
  • Conway v Ratiu and Others
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 08 Noviembre 2005
    ... ... Regent and Pristbrook or between those corporate clients and Mr Ratiu and Mr Karmel. He said that ... issue involved, to draw back the corporate veil to do justice when common-sense and reality ... of trust, confidence and loyalty, for lifting the corporate veil where the facts require it to ... ...
  • Burnden Holdings (UK) Ltd v Fielding and Another
    • Supreme Court
    • 28 Febrero 2018
    ... ... therefore possession of a succession of corporate entities, namely the Claimant company, then BHUH, ... would, he submitted, involve the lifting of one or more corporate veils, or ignoring the ... recognised ground for lifting the corporate veil: see the Prest case, at paras 34–35. It would ... ...
  • La Générale des Carrières et des Mines v F.G. Hemisphere Associates LLC
    • Privy Council
    • 17 Julio 2012
    ... ... exists in which courts will "lift the corporate veil" and look at or to those behind the company ... Lifting the veil – domestic and international law ... ...
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