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    This case involves a dispute over an unpaid debt owed by New Marinduque Mining and Industrial Corporation (NMIC) to Hydro Resources Contractors Corporation (HRCC) for mining services. The Philippine National Bank (PNB) and Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) acquired the assets of the defunct Marinduque Mining and Industrial Corporation and formed NMIC, owning 57% and 43% respectively. HRCC sued to hold NMIC, PNB, and DBP jointly liable for the unpaid debt. The court ruled that PNB and DBP should be held jointly liable with NMIC based on the doctrine of piercing the corporate veil, as NMIC was being used as an alter ego or business conduit of

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    This case involves a dispute over an unpaid debt owed by New Marinduque Mining and Industrial Corporation (NMIC) to Hydro Resources Contractors Corporation (HRCC) for mining services. The Philippine National Bank (PNB) and Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) acquired the assets of the defunct Marinduque Mining and Industrial Corporation and formed NMIC, owning 57% and 43% respectively. HRCC sued to hold NMIC, PNB, and DBP jointly liable for the unpaid debt. The court ruled that PNB and DBP should be held jointly liable with NMIC based on the doctrine of piercing the corporate veil, as NMIC was being used as an alter ego or business conduit of

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    This case involves a dispute over an unpaid debt owed by New Marinduque Mining and Industrial Corporation (NMIC) to Hydro Resources Contractors Corporation (HRCC) for mining services. The Philippine National Bank (PNB) and Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) acquired the assets of the defunct Marinduque Mining and Industrial Corporation and formed NMIC, owning 57% and 43% respectively. HRCC sued to hold NMIC, PNB, and DBP jointly liable for the unpaid debt. The court ruled that PNB and DBP should be held jointly liable with NMIC based on the doctrine of piercing the corporate veil, as NMIC was being used as an alter ego or business conduit of

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    PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK v. HYDRO RESOURCES CONTRACTORS CORPORATION G.R. No.

    167530,
    March 13, 2013

    PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK v. HYDRO RESOURCES CONTRACTORS CORPORATION


    G.R. No. 167530, March 13, 2013
    Corporation Law Case Digest by John Paul C. Ladiao (15 March 2016)
    (Topic: Doctrine of Piercing the Veil of Corporate Fiction)

    FACTS:

    Sometime in 1984, petitioners DBP and PNB foreclosed on certain mortgages made on the properties of
    Marinduque Mining and Industrial Corporation (MMIC). As a result of the foreclosure, DBP and PNB
    acquired substantially all the assets of MMIC and resumed the business operations of the defunct MMIC
    by organizing NMIC.7 DBP and PNB owned 57% and 43% of the shares of NMIC, respectively, except for
    five qualifying shares. As of September 1984, the members of the Board of Directors of NMIC, namely,
    Jose Tengco, Jr., Rolando Zosa, Ruben Ancheta, Geraldo Agulto, and Faustino Agbada, were either from
    DBP or PNB.

    Subsequently, NMIC engaged the services of Hercon, Inc., for NMIC’s Mine Stripping and Road
    Construction Program in 1985 for a total contract price of P35,770,120. After computing the payments
    already made by NMIC under the program and crediting the NMIC’s receivables from
    Hercon, Inc., the latter found that NMIC still has an unpaid balance of P8,370,934.74.10 Hercon, Inc.
    made several demands on NMIC, including a letter of final demand dated August 12, 1986, and when
    these were not heeded, a complaint for sum of money was filed in the RTC of Makati, Branch 136
    seeking to hold petitioners NMIC, DBP, and PNB solidarily liable for the amount owing Hercon, Inc.

    Subsequent to the filing of the complaint, Hercon, Inc. was acquired by HRCC in a merger.

    Thereafter, on December 8, 1986, then President Corazon C. Aquino issued Proclamation No. 50 creating
    the APT for the expeditious disposition and privatization of certain government corporations and/or the
    assets thereof. Pursuant to the said Proclamation, on February 27, 1987, DBP and PNB executed their
    respective deeds of transfer in favor of the National Government assigning, transferring and conveying
    certain assets and liabilities, including their respective stakes in NMIC. In turn and on even date, the
    National Government transferred the said assets and liabilities to the APT as trustee under a Trust
    Agreement.

    ISSUE:

    Whether or not there is sufficient ground to pierce the veil of corporate fiction of NMIC and held DBP
    and PNB solidarily liable with NMIC?

    RULING:

    No.
    From all indications, it appears that NMIC is a mere adjunct, business conduit or alter ego of both DBP
    and PNB. Thus, the DBP and PNB are jointly and severally liable with NMIC for the latter’s unpaid
    obligations to plaintiff.

    Then concluded that, "in keeping with the concept of justice and fair play," the corporate veil of NMIC
    should be pierced.
    For to treat NMIC as a separate legal entity from DBP and PNB for the purpose of securing beneficial
    contracts, and then using such separate entity to evade the payment of a just debt, would be the height
    of injustice and iniquity. Surely that could not have been the intendment of the law with respect to
    corporations.

    The doctrine of piercing the corporate veil applies only in three (3) basic areas, namely: 1) defeat of
    public convenience as when the corporate fiction is used as a vehicle for the evasion of an existing
    obligation; 2) fraud cases or when the corporate entity is used to justify a wrong, protect fraud, or
    defend a crime; or 3) alter ego cases, where a corporation is merely a farce since it is a mere alter ego or
    business conduit of a person, or where the corporation is so organized and controlled and its affairs are
    so conducted as to make it merely an instrumentality, agency, conduit or adjunct of another
    corporation.

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