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Jhaveri Darsan Jitendra v. Salgaocar Anil Vassudeva

Singapore decision distinguishing standard piercing, outsider reverse piercing, and insider reverse piercing, and rejecting insider reverse piercing by a beneficial-owner claimant seeking corporate assets.

Brief English Introduction

The dispute concerned whether a claimant who said he beneficially owned shares in special purpose vehicles could treat assets held by those companies as his own through reverse piercing.

Use It For

Use it with the SPC FaDaWang Q&A on reverse personality denial to compare why courts are especially cautious when insiders ask to disregard a company.

Teaching Notes

The case is a clean taxonomy source: standard piercing, outsider reverse piercing, and insider reverse piercing involve different plaintiffs and different risks to creditors and shareholders.