Case Number: 4A_528/2019 (7 December 2020)

Court partially sets aside award on jurisdiction but confirms extension of agreement to non-signatories

In a recently published French-language decision rendered in a domestic arbitration, the Swiss Supreme Court partially set aside a jurisdictional award, finding that the arbitration agreement did not bind a non-signatory respondent, but confirming that the claimants could rely on the agreement, despite not being signatories.