Fred Bonner and Bonner Roofing and Sheet Metal Co., Inc. collectively Bonner sued T. I. Brunson, LLC and Thomas I. Brunson, individually, to collect over $288,000 claimed due for roofing work done pursuant to a subcontract with the LLC on a condominium construction project on which the LLC acted as the general contractor. At issue is Bonner’s claim that Thomas Brunson the owner and controlling member of the LLC is personally liable for the alleged debt of the LLC because he abused the form of the LLC and is therefore no longer protected by the veil of a separately maintained LLC.1 Because we find no evidence in the record to support this claim, we conclude Brunson was not personally liable and affirm the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Brunson, individually.2 Just as the so-called “corporate veil” protects an individual shareholder of a corporation from personal liability for the debts of the separate corporate entity so long as the corporate forms are maintained so is a member of a limited liability company LLC “veiled” from personal liability for the debts of the separately maintained LLC entity. Yukon Partners, Inc. v. Lodge Keeper Group, Inc. , 258 Ga. App. 1, 5-6 572 SE2d 647 2002; OCGA § § 14-11-303; 14-11-1107 j. In order to pierce this veil and hold Brunson personally liable for the alleged debt of the LLC, there must be evidence that he abused the forms by which the LLC was maintained as a separate legal entity apart from his personal business. Fuda v. Kroen , 204 Ga. App. 836, 837 420 SE2d 767 1992. A court may disregard the separate LLC entity and the protective veil it provides to an individual member of the LLC when that member, in order to defeat justice or perpetrate fraud, conducts his personal and LLC business as if they were one by commingling the two on an interchangeable or joint basis or confusing otherwise separate properties, records, or control. Stewart Bros., Inc. v. Allen , 189 Ga. App. 816 377 SE2d 724 1989; Bone Constr. Co. v. Lewis , 148 Ga. App. 61 250 SE2d 851 1978; Clark v. Cauthen , 239 Ga. App. 226, 228 520 SE2d 477 1999.
Bonner contends that various conduct by the LLC and Brunson supports piercing the LLC veil and holding Brunson personally liable.
