corporate opportunity doctrine
corporate-opportunity doctrine. The rule that a corporation’s directors, officers, and employees are precluded from using information gained as such to take personal advantage of any business opportunities that the corporation has an expectancy right or property interest in, or that in fairness should otherwise belong to the corporation. • In a partnership, the analogous principle is termed the firm-opportunity doctrine. [Cases: Corporations 315. C.J.S. Corporations §§ 512–514.]