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Effects Of Veil Piercing, Alter Ego And Substantive Consolidation On Bankruptcy, Lauren Gross
Effects Of Veil Piercing, Alter Ego And Substantive Consolidation On Bankruptcy, Lauren Gross
Bankruptcy Research Library
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At times, bankruptcy can seem like a game of cat and mouse between debtors and creditors. By filing for bankruptcy in the first place, debtors change the rules of the game with various bankruptcy mechanisms, such as the automatic stay provision set forth in section 361 of the United States Bankruptcy Code (the “Bankruptcy Code”). An important inquiry exists in what creditors can to do promote their interests in bankruptcy. An even more important inquiry lies in determining what doctrines may satisfy generally recognized principles of equity for all.
One option for creditors who deal with corporate entities is …
Veil-Piercing's Procedure, Sam F. Halabi
Veil-Piercing's Procedure, Sam F. Halabi
Faculty Publications
With the lines between shareholders and corporations blurring over constitutional rights like free exercise of religion and political speech, questions as to how and under what circumstances the law respects or disregards the separation between shareholders and their corporations have never been more urgent. In the corporate law literature, these inquiries have overwhelmingly focused on the doctrine of piercing the corporate veil, a judicial mechanism normally applied to hold shareholders responsible for the obligations of corporations. The last twenty years of veil-piercing scholarship has been largely devoted to empirical analyses of veil-piercing cases collected from Lexis and Westlaw searches. Since …
Don't Mistake The Proxy For The Rule: Alter Ego Liability In Tennessee, George Kuney
Don't Mistake The Proxy For The Rule: Alter Ego Liability In Tennessee, George Kuney
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