Subsidiary Liability and Business Risks 2026 - online conference on subsidiary liability and protecting the personal assets of owners and executives

Case law and liability risks for people who control a company

• Recent outcomes and trends in subsidiary liability claims.
• How courts identify who actually controls a company when its registered directors are nominees.
• Risks for CFOs, chief accountants and in-house counsel, and claims brought outside formal bankruptcy proceedings.

Transactions and tax risks

• Challenges to transactions involving suspected asset stripping, including below-market sales, intragroup loans and employee advances without supporting records.
• How tax audit findings are used in liability claims and how good-faith counterparties can protect themselves if a business partner goes bankrupt.

Practical session on defending against liability claims

• Documenting the business rationale for unusual transactions and recording how management reached its decisions.
• Documenting how external factors affected the company’s finances and preserving source documents and accounting records.
• Identifying when the company became insolvent and assessing when the duty to file for bankruptcy arose.

Russian Supreme Court case workshop

• Two subsidiary liability cases, the parties’ arguments and mistakes made in building a defense.
• Audience vote on how each case should be decided.