Cour de cassation, First Civil Chamber, 3 February 2010, Merial v Klocke Verpackungs – Service GMBH - French International Arbitration Law Reports: 2010

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Thomas Clay

Philippe Pinsolle

Thomas Voisin

Suhaib Al-Ali

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Thomas Clay is Professor in International Arbitration Law in Versailles

University, Director of its LLM in International Arbitration in

collaboration with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the only

French-language program in international arbitration. He's also Vice-

President of the University, managing partner of Clay Arbitration Law

Firm, and former Dean of the Law School. Member of the French

Arbitration Committee and of the International Arbitration Institute and

other institutions, Professor Clay is the author of various books and articles

on arbitration, including "The Arbitrator", a treatise on the duties and

obligations of arbitrators, and "Code de" arbitrage commenté”, a

restatement of the French law. He writes a regular column, Arbitration

Law, in the weekly legal journal Dalloz. He also participates in numerous

conferences throughout the world on international arbitration and has an

extensive practice in arbitration, as arbitrator or counsel, in French,

Spanish, English and Italian, collaborating with the ICC, other French

institutions, the Milan Arbitration Court, and in Africa and South America.

Professor Clay is also a member of the Jurisdiction of Professional Soccer

League and Arbitrator in the French Sport Arbitration Chamber. He was

appointed by France to serve as co-arbitrator in the first ICSID Arbitration

against that country.

Philippe Pinsolle is the Managing Partner of the Paris Office at Quinn

Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, and specializes in international arbitration.

He has been involved, as counsel or arbitrator, in more than two hundred

and fifty international arbitrations, both institutional (ICC, ICSID, LCIA,

SCC, AFA, Swiss Rules, etc.) and ad hoc, concerning such activities as

investment, oil and gas, energy, telecom or the defense industry. Mr.

Pinsolle is a member of the Paris Bar and of the Bar of England & Wales

(Gray's Inn). He is a lecturer on international arbitration at the Universities

of Aix-Marseille III, Versailles-St Quentin and Paris 12. Mr. Pinsolle is the

former President of the International Arbitration commission of the Union

Internationale des Avocats (UIA) and a cofounder of the Young

Arbitration Practitioners (YAP). He is the author of numerous articles and

case-notes on international arbitration and holds a J.D. degree from the

University Pantheon-Assas (Paris II), a M.Jur. from Oxford University,

Hertford College, and an MBA degree from Essec.

Thomas Voisin is a Partner in the Paris office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart

& Sullivan. He has represented clients in a number of international

arbitrations, both ad hoc (including under the UNCITRAL Rules) and

under the rules of major arbitration centers (ICC, ICSID, LCIA, SCC,

AFA, etc.), with particular focus on investment, energy, and commercial

disputes. His experience includes international arbitrations in the oil &

gas, power, transportation, mining, aviation and chemical sectors. He

graduated from the University Pantheon-Assas (Paris II) and holds an

M.Jur. from Oxford University.

Suhaib Al-Ali is an Associate in the Paris office of Quinn Emanuel

Urquhart & Sullivan. He has intervened on behalf of both States and

Investors before ICSID and ad hoc tribunals, as well as commercial

Claimants and Respondents before the ICC, LCIA, ECA, and the Franco-

German Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He has degrees from

King's College London, Paris-I Pantheon-Sorbonne, and the University of

Chicago. He is a member of the New York Bar.

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ORIGINAL

REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE

AU NOM DU PEUPLE FRANCAIS

LA COUR DE CASSATION, PREMIÈRE CHAMBRE CIVILE, a rendu l'arrêt suivant :

Statuant sur le pourvoi formé par la société Merial, société par actions simplifiée, dont le siège
est 29 avenue Tony Garnier, BP 7123, 69354 Lyon cedex 07,

contre l'arrêt rendu le 9 octobre 2008 par la cour d'appel de Paris (1re chambre section C), dans
le litige l'opposant à la société Klocke Verpackungs – Service GMBH, dont le siège est Max-Becker-
Strasse 6, Weingarten (Allemagne),

défenderesse à la cassation ;

La demanderesse invoque, à l'appui de son pourvoi, un moyen unique de cassation annexé au présent
arrêt ;

Vu la communication faite au procureur général ;

LA COUR, composée conformément à l'article R. 431-5 du code de l'organisation judiciaire, en
l'audience publique du 8 décembre 2009, où étaient présents : M. Bargue, président, Mme Pascal,
conseiller rapporteur, M. Pluyette, conseiller doyen, MM. Rivière, Falcone,

TRANSLATION

FRENCH REPUBLIC

IN THE NAME OF THE FRENCH PEOPLE

THE COURT OF CASSATION, FIRST CIVIL CHAMBER, rendered the following decision:

Deciding on the appeal entered by Merial, a French corporation (société par actions simplifiée), whose headquarters is located at 29 avenue Tony Garnier, BP 7123, 69354 Lyon cedex 07,against the decision rendered on 9 October 2008 by the Paris Court of Appeal (1st Chamber, Section C), in its dispute against Klocke Verpackungs – Service GMBH, whose headquarters is located at Max-Becker-Strasse 6, Weingarten, Germany,

respondent;

In support of its petition the applicant relies on the following argument;

Given the communication of the Prosecutor General;

THE COURT, constituted in accordance with Article R. 431-5 of the Code of Judicial Organization, in
a public hearing of 8 December 2009, in the presence of Mr. Bargue, President, Mrs. Pascal,
conseiller rapporteur, Mr. Pluyette, conseiller doyen, Messrs. Rivière,