The Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC) of San Francisco, which represents Oracle, accepted the invitation to meet the Societe Nautique de Geneve to seek mutual consent on the terms of the 33rd America's Cup.



Alinghi will be sending Alinghi’s skipper Brad Butterworth, SNG counsel Lucien Masmejan and vice-commodore Fred Meyer. Meanwhile BMW Oracle will be represented by GGYC Board member Melinda Erkelens, Racing Rules Advisor Richard Slater and Design team member Manolo Ruiz de Elvira

The talks are set to take place three weeks after a New York court backed Oracle over the Swiss champions in the conclusion to their long-running legal battle.

That ruling means that, barring any other agreement between them, the two teams must hold a best-of-three duel involving multihull yachts a minimum of 10 months after April 7.