INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION

Archive / March, 2013

Piercing the Corporate Veil in Hungary

In the recent years international legal community has been widely discussing the need for, and the limits of, application of the piercing the corporate veil doctrine. Having its origins in common law countries, first and foremost the USA and the UK, the doctrine allows disregarding corporate shield of legal entities and is now quite familiar […]

Is the Door to England Still That Wide Open for CIS Disputes?

6 February has marked lawyers’ calendars with an important message from the UK Supreme Court: English courts will not accept the jurisdiction over a dispute having the “centre of gravity” in another country. In particular, the Court found that in a tort claim, where the key issues in the litigation would on the face of […]