Advokat, Rechtsanwalt & Independent Arbitrator Alexander Foerster, M.C.L.
Arbitration / Dispute Management
Alexander Foerster is a German and Swedish attorney and highly respected figure in international commercial arbitration.
He acted as counsel and arbitrator in a great number of cross border disputes in a variety of sectors including mergers & acquisitions, infrastructure and construction, automotive, waste management, finance and energy.
CV
Professional Career
Independent Arbitrator and Expert, 2022 - present
Partner, Mannheimer Swartling, 1996-2021
Member of the firm’s internationally renowned Dispute Resolution Group Stockholm, one of the largest in the Nordic Countries, 2013-2021
Head of Mannheimer Swartling Frankfurt Office, 1996-2013
Associate and Rechtsanwalt, Mannheimer Swartling, Frankfurt, DE, 1990-1996
Associate, Mannheimer Zetterlöf Advokatbyrå, Göteborg, SE, 1988-1990
Other Assignments
Member of the SCC Arbitrators’ Council 2022 - present
Member of the DIS Technology Practice Group 2022 - present
Member of the DIS Council, 2018 - present
Chairperson of the permanent arbitral tribunal of the PGA of Germany e.V., 2018 - present
Assistant professor at the Frankfurt University of Applied Science, 2011 – present
Board Member of the Institut für Vertragsgestaltung und Konfliktlösung at the Frankfurt University of Applied Science, 2016 – present
Member of the examination commission of the Swedish Bar Association (Censor), 2011 - present
Member of the Supervisory Board (Stiftungsrat) of the Stiftung der hessischen Rechtsanwaltschaft, 2016 - 2021
Member of the Executive Board (Vorstand) of the Stiftung der hessischen Rechtsanwaltschaft, 2012 – 2015
Lecturer at the Institute for Law and Finance (IFL), Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, 2012 - 2014
President of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Germany, 2008 – 2012
Lecturer at the International Summer School on Dispute Resolution at the Humboldt University, Berlin, 2004 – 2008
Member of the Board of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Germany, 1996 - 2012
Education
LL.M. Program Stockholm University 1988 - 1989
M.C.L Program Stockholm University, 1986 - 1988
Albertus Magnus Universität Köln, Germany, 1982 - 1986
Universität Bonn, Germany, 1984
Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, 1983 - 1984
Publications
“The Public International Law Significance of the Ascom Case”, in Stockholm Arbitration Yearbook 2022, Chapter 9, pp. 155-168
„Die schwedische (private) Aktiengesellschaft“, Country Report Sweden in Handbuchs des Internationalen GmbH-Rechts, Süß – editor, 4rd edition 2021
Länderbericht Schweden in Geimer/Schütze, Internationaler Rechtsverkehr in Zivil- und Handelssachen, 61. Auflage 2021
Guide till kommersiell tvistlösning (co-author), 4th edition, 2021
Sweden Chapter in Encyclopaedia of International Commercial Litigation - Kluwer Law International, 2020 (co-author with Azadeh Razani)
Costs Issues in Arbitrations Involving Third Party Funding: The Swedish Example, in SchiedsVZ 2020, 149-155 (co-author with Johan Skog)
Concise Guide to Arbitration in Sweden" (co-author), 2nd edition, Mannheimer Swartling, 2019
Country Report Sweden in Pitkowitz, Handbook in Third Party Funding in International Arbitration, 2018
Commentary on the SCC Rules in Schütze, Institutionelle Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit, 3. Auflage 2017
Shareholder’s Liability for procedural cost (co-author with Clemens Vidal) in Corporate Disputes 2015 Jul-Sep, pages 120-123
Various articles in Dispute Resolution Online 2013-2021 (https://www.deutscheranwaltspiegel.de/disputeresolution/ )
Country Report Sweden in Corporate Governance International, Theiselman – editor, 2013
Awards
Elected by peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in Germany in the field of arbitration (2015, 2016).
Chambers recommended Dispute Resolution Foreign Expert
JUVE Handbuch recommended litigation and arbitration ( “..kompetent, lösungsorientiert, unkompliziert“;„ „..persönlich wie fachlich hoch qualifiziert“)
Fellow of the Frankfurt University of Applied Science, 2019
Royal Order (1kl) of the Polar Star, 2013
