Practical Law UK Legal Update Case Report 7-524-0609 (Approx. 10 pages)
Supreme Court upholds decision in VTB v Nutritek (Full update)
by Swati Tripathi and Shivani Sanghi, associates in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution group at SJ Berwin LLP. SJ Berwin acted for the successful defendants in the Supreme Court
In VTB Capital plc v Nutritek International Corp and others [2013] UKSC 5, the Supreme Court has considered whether it could extend the circumstances in which the corporate veil can be pierced and whether England was the appropriate forum to hear the dispute.