Question juridique clé
Whether the set-off of renovation costs against shareholder loans was revocable in bankruptcy.
Solution extraite
The set-off could not be relied on because the shareholder-loan claims were in substance equity funds; the shareholder had no compensable claim.
Motifs extraits
Given the shareholder’s dominant control, the company’s financial distress, the prior postposition of part of the loan, and the economically identical position of shareholder and company, the court applied an abuse-of-rights / economic unity approach and held that the shareholder could not use the loan as a set-off claim.