Federal Act
on Private International Law
(PILA)

¹ The as­sign­ment of a claim by con­tract is gov­erned by the law chosen by the parties or, in the ab­sence of such choice, by the law ap­plic­able to the as­signed claim. A choice of law can­not be as­ser­ted against the debt­or without the lat­ter’s as­sent.

² A choice of law re­lat­ing to the as­sign­ment of an em­ploy­ee’s claim is val­id only to the ex­tent that Art­icle 121 para­graph 3 al­lows it for the em­ploy­ment con­tract.

³ The form of an as­sign­ment is gov­erned ex­clus­ively by the law ap­plic­able to the as­sign­ment con­tract.

⁴ Is­sues con­cern­ing ex­clus­ively the re­la­tion­ship between the parties to the as­sign­ment con­tract are gov­erned by the law ap­plic­able to the leg­al re­la­tion­ship un­der­ly­ing the as­sign­ment.