Questão jurídica principal
Whether the fiduciary's contract with a controlled company amounted to impermissible self-dealing and was invalid
Decisão extraída
The transaction was to be treated as self-dealing in economic reality; the appellant could not rely on the separate legal personality of the controlled company to avoid the self-dealing rule.
Fundamentação extraída
A contract concluded by an organ of a company with a company economically controlled by him is subject to the self-dealing rules when the conflict of interests is manifest. Invoking the separate legal personality of the controlled company is abusive if it would allow the prohibition of self-contracting to be circumvented.