On the criminal liability of legal entities in the corporate group

Abstract

This two-part article deals with the criminal liability of legal entities within corporate group. In its first part, it describes the possibilities of criminal liability of the parent company for the unlawful conduct of the representatives of the subsidiary, whose specifics derive from the relationship of control and governance.

In its second part, the article deals with the issue of the criminal liability of a legal entity, where both the offender and the injured are the legal entities of the corporate group.

Keywords

• corporate group
• parent company
• subsidiary
• criminal liability
• legal entities