Swiss Arbitration Decisions

This opinion of the Federal Tribunal, dated December 16, 2009, relates to an arbitration in Zurich based on a 2001 contract concerning the delivery of hydrofluoric acid.

The contract was governed by Swiss law. Arbitration proceedings were initiated in Zurich in February 2006 and on April 3, 2009 the ICC Arbitral Tribunal issued an award granting part of the claims and rejecting the counterclaim.

At issue was a dispute governed by Swiss law between two companies and there was an ICC arbitration clause (1998 ICC Rules) providing for ICC arbitration in Geneva.

A three members arbitral tribunal was constituted (Jean de Hauteclocque and Albert Dupont-Willemin as arbitrators, with Guy Keutgen as chairman) and two preliminary awards were issued by the arbitrators.

The case involved an ICC arbitration in Geneva in which a three-member arbitral tribunal (Chairman Ibrahim Fadlallah with arbitrators Jean Marie Vuillemin and Mohammed el Mernissi) issued an award on September 12, 2013, essentially ordering a Moroccan company to pay the balance of the purchase price of a mill delivered by a Spanish company along with various services.

The case involved a dispute concerning a consultancy agreement by which a company undertook to provide services to ensure that a football player would remain with the club for which he was playing. The arbitration clause in the consultancy agreement provided for jurisdiction of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), before a panel of three arbitrators.

This was a (very) low-value dispute between a professional football player and his Sub-Agent, about the validity of a second agreement for the payment of a sub-agent’s commission. It is worth noting that the facts occurred prior to the adoption of the FIFA Regulations on Working with Intermediaries. FIFA Player X wanted to go on a loan to another team. His exclusive representative, B, contacted the “Sub-Agent,” Z, who had links to various clubs, including Club C.

The case involved a labor law dispute between a football player and his club, whereby the CAS (Lars Hilliger chairing with arbitrators, Efraïm Barak and Stuart McInnes), partially confirming the FIFA DRC Decision, ordered the club to pay the unpaid salaries to the player.

The case Federaciòn Española de Bolos ("FEB") v. Fédération Internationale des Quilleurs ("FIQ") and Federaciò Catalana de Bitllesi BowlingFederaciò Catalana de Bitllesi Bowling ("FCBB") involved an application made by FCBB to be admitted as a member of FIQ, whilst the FEB, as the Spanish Federation, was already a member of FIQ.