Civil Procedure · The Business and Property Courts (Circuit Commercial Court)
Intralinks Inc v Nexans SA
Checked against the judgment on 22 September 2026 · how we verify
Facts
Intralinks Inc, a US provider of virtual data rooms, supplied services to Nexans SA, a French cable company, for "Project Otto" under a contract made on 2 or 3 October 2024. Two competing work orders existed. The first, sent by Intralinks' Paris-based employee on 2 October, incorporated a French-law Master Services Agreement with a Paris jurisdiction clause. The second was prepared by Intralinks' Frankfurt office, which dealt with Nexans' German financial advisers, Evercore. It incorporated an English-law MSA with no jurisdiction clause, and both parties signed it by Docusign on 3 October. In August 2025 Nexans uploaded large Excel files, and Intralinks invoiced €2,193,147 in usage-based charges, payable into its JP Morgan euro account in England. Nexans disputed the charges. After receiving Intralinks' letter before action, it began proceedings in France on 19 December 2025, claiming that French law governed and seeking damages for bad faith. Intralinks issued a debt claim in the London Circuit Commercial Court on 24 March 2026. His Honour Judge Bird gave permission to serve out of the jurisdiction on 31 March 2026. Nexans challenged jurisdiction under CPR Part 11. It argued that neither Gateway 6(c) of CPR PD 6B nor Gateway 7 of CPR PD 6B was satisfied and that England was not the proper place to bring the claim.
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