Federal Act
on Private International Law
(PILA)

¹In mat­ters in­volving an eco­nom­ic in­terest, the parties may agree on the court that will have to de­cide any ex­ist­ing or fu­ture dis­pute arising from a spe­cif­ic leg­al re­la­tion­ship. The agree­ment may be done in writ­ing, or by any oth­er means al­low­ing it to be evid­enced by text.⁵ Un­less oth­er­wise agreed, the choice of for­um is ex­clus­ive.

^1bis If the parties have merely agreed that the place of jur­is­dic­tion is in Switzer­land, the jur­is­dic­tion of the Swiss courts shall be de­term­ined in ac­cord­ance with the pro­vi­sions of this Act. If there is no such pro­vi­sion, the court first seised shall have jur­is­dic­tion.⁶

²The choice of for­um has no ef­fect if it res­ults in ab­us­ively de­priving a party from the pro­tec­tion gran­ted to it by a for­um provided by Swiss law.

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