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by Marco Sposini
Laywer, Milan Bar Association
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The ECJ on the effects of Brexit on choice of court agreements under Article 25(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012
9 October 2025
The Court of Justice of the European Union, by judgment ECLI:EU:C:2025:766, dated 9 October 2025, in Case C‑540/24 – in proceedings between Cabris Investments Ltd and Revetas Capital Advisors LLP, companies incorporated under English law, concerning a claim for payment of a sum to fulfil a contractual obligation, brought by the former company against the latter before an Austrian court – ruled that Article 25(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters must be interpreted as meaning that that provision covers a situation in which two parties to a contract domiciled in the United Kingdom agree, by an agreement conferring jurisdiction concluded during the transition period provided for by the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, on the jurisdiction of a court of a Member State to settle disputes arising from that contract, even where that court was seised of a dispute between those parties after the end of that period.
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