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Federal Tribunal rejects appeal touching on pacta sunt servanda
January 6, 2021

In 2011, C.________ concluded three agency contracts with A.________, a company based in Panama. Initially intended to last just 12 months, the relationship persisted into 2015. Between 2010 and 2013, E.________, an employee of C._________, was, unbeknownst to its own employer, receiving kickbacks for the renewal of the contracts from A.________’s parent company. C.________ only learned of the kickbacks in 2017.

 

Case information

Docket number: 
4A_346/2020
Original language: 
French
Parties
Appellant: 
A.__ SA
Respondent: 
B.__ SA
C.__ SA
Counsel
Appellant: 
Gilliéron Marc
Fluri Nathalie
Respondent: 
Bühr Daniel L.
Elmiger Dominik
Hovaguimian Philippe
PDF version of the translation: 
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    Dr Charles PONCET is a well-known practitioner of arbitration in which he has been active for more than 25 years. Dr PONCET provides the translations on this site. A former Member of the Swiss Parliament he retired from CMS von Erlach Poncet at the end of 2016 and practices arbitration in Geneva.

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