Alter Ego

Litigation Engagements

• On behalf of defendants – the owners of a multi-family residential real estate development and property management company – who were also the owners of a related limited liability company that had invested in a maker of ophthalmic laser surgical devices that later sought protection under the federal bankruptcy laws and who were personally sued by a fellow shareholder of that business who wished to pierce the limited liability company veil to collect from them a judgment against the limited liability company that had also sought protection under the federal bankruptcy laws – in federal district court in California.

• On behalf of defendant – a multinational public conglomerate in the energy business – that, along with others, was sued under CERCLA for environmental cleanup costs associated with a Superfund site in Texas at which a then-liquidated subsidiary was alleged to have dumped hazardous waste products, a circumstance that prompted the government to make alter ego claims in an attempt to pierce the corporate veil and reach the assets of the then-liquidated subsidiary’s parent — in federal district court in Texas.

• On behalf of defendants – brother-sister corporations in the energy business – that were sued by a subsidiary of a regulated public utility, the joint venture partner of one of the brother-sister corporations in a gas gathering system, that was making alter ego claims in an attempt to pierce the corporate veil and reach the assets of the brother-sister corporation that was not its joint venture partner — in state court in Texas.

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