shell companyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

shell company (複数形 shell companies)

1. A company that engages in no substantive business activities, but instead exists as a vehicle for legal or financial transactions, typically to shield another party from liability or other issues.

   Synonyms: shell corporation, (Germanish) mailbox company, front company

   • 2003 November 15, Tony Levene, “Capital letters”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     It was a shell company and, the SEC alleges, never had researchers, research plans or any scientific resources.

   • 2018, Oliver Bullough, chapter 2, in Moneyland, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 19:

     This luxury-loving and profligate shell company is registered at a betting shop on the Caledonian Road, an unlovely thoroughfare in North London on which you'd be more likely to find amphetamines than a top-notch lawyer.