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Subject: Dispute Resolution
Paper: IBA Litigation Newsletter
Reading time: 5 Min
05.05.2025

International jurisdiction regarding actions for negative declaratory judgments

Urs Feller and Marcel Frey discus a recent decision by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court s in the IBA Litigation Committee Newsletter of 4 April 2025. It deals with the issue of international jurisdiction for claims for negative declaratory judgments where Swiss manufacturers and foreign clients are facing each other in court proceedings and where the product in question went through different stages and locations of assembly.

"This article first appeared in the spring 2025 newsletter of the Class Actions Litigation Committee in the Legal Practice Division of the International Bar Association, and is reproduced by kind permission of the International Bar Association, London, UK. © International Bar Association."

LINK: International jurisdiction regarding actions for negative declaratory judgments