INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC ARBITRATION IN SWITZERLAND

Contents XII a. Introduction ..................................................................................173 b. Party autonomy ............................................................................173 c. Contractual claims........................................................................174 d. Culpa in contrahendo ; reliance-based liability.............................176 e. Non-contractual claims.................................................................177 i. Claims in tort ........................................................................178 ii. Claims for unjust enrichment................................................178 f. Multiple contracts.........................................................................179 i. Extension of an arbitration clause in one contract to claims under another contract ...............................................179 ii. Cumulation of claims under multiple contracts.....................181 g. Set-off...........................................................................................183 h. Counterclaims ..............................................................................185 i. Jurisdiction over claims for damages for breach of an arbitration agreement....................................................................188 3. Personal scope of application ( ratione personae )...............................189 a. Introduction ..................................................................................189 b. Universal succession ....................................................................191 c. Singular succession ......................................................................192 i. Assignment of claim .............................................................192 ii. Assumption of debt...............................................................197 iii. Assignment of contract .........................................................197 d. Arbitration agreement in favour of a third party...........................198 e. Third party interference (extension to a “non - signatory”) ............200 f. Extension from a general partnership to its partners ....................205 g. Piercing the corporate veil............................................................205 h. Group of companies doctrine .......................................................206 i. Joint and several obligations; joinder of parties ...........................208 j. Third-party notice and intervention ..............................................209 k. Third-party claim and intervention claim .....................................210 4. Temporal scope of application ( ratione temporis )..............................211 a. Lack of arbitral jurisdiction ratione temporis ...............................211 b. Consequences of non-compliance with compulsory pre- abitral dispute resolution mechanisms..........................................212 c. Jurisdiction ratione temporis in investment arbitration ................213 5. Consolidation of arbitral proceedings.................................................213 6. Effects of insolvency on arbitral jurisdiction......................................215 VIII. Invalidity of the arbitration agreement......................................................217 1. Formal defects ....................................................................................217 2. Defects in the conclusion....................................................................218 3. Deficiencies in content .......................................................................218 4. Consequences of invalidity.................................................................220