Judgment_paragraph 52 · KA Finanz AG v Sparkassen Versicherung AG Vienna Insurance Group (C-483/14)

52It is clear from the Report on the Convention on the law applicable to contractual obligations by Mario Giuliano, professor at the University of Milan and Paul Lagarde, professor at the University of Paris I (OJ 1980 C 282, p. 1), that questions governed by the law of companies or other bodies corporate or unincorporated were not included within the scope of the Rome Convention in view of the work being conducted on the subject of company law within the European Communities. It is also clear from the report that contracts governing the winding-up of companies, such as mergers or groupings of companies, are listed among those covered by the exceptions set in Article 1(2) of the Rome Convention. The Convention does not therefore apply to the merger of companies.