Advokat, Rechtsanwalt & Independent Arbitrator Alexander Foerster, M.C.L.
Arbitration / Dispute Management
Alexander Foerster is a dual-qualified German and Swedish attorney and highly respected expert in international commercial arbitration.
With extensive experience as counsel and arbitrator, he has handled numerous cross-border disputes across diverse sectors, including mergers & acquisitions, infrastructure and construction, automotive, waste management, finance, and energy.
CV
Professional Career
Independent Arbitrator and Expert, 2022 - present
Appointments as co-arbitrator in four SCC arbitrations (amounts in dispute between 8-digit SEK amount and 9-digit EUR amount)
Appointments as co-arbitrator and chair in two DIS arbitration proceedings (amount in dispute 9-digit EUR amount resp high 7-digit EUR amount)
Appointment as co-arbitrator in one VIAC arbitration (7-digit EUR amount)
Appointment as chair in one DAI arbitration (6-digit EUR amount)
Appointment as sole arbitrator in one ICC arbitration (low 6-digit EUR amount)
Appointment as sole arbitrator in one SCC arbitration (6 digit EUR amount)
Appointment as legal expert on Swedish law in one multi-party ICC arbitration
Appointment as legal expert for Swedish law in 3 German court proceedings (on recommendation of the Max-Planck-Institute for International Private Law in Hamburg
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 DIS Council, 2018 - 2026
Member of the Advisory Board of Africa in the Moot, 2025 - 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
Chairperson of the Stockholm Arbitration Network (SAN), 2023 - 2024
Member of the SCC Arbitrators’ Council, 2022 - 2024
Associated Member of the DIS Technology Practice Group, 2022 - 2024
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
Memberships
Swedish Bar Association
Frankfurt am Main Bar
Deutsch-Nordische Juristenvereinigung
International Bar Association (Arbitration Section)
International Council for Commercial Arbitration
DIS Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit
ASA Association Suisse d’Arbitrage
Swedish Arbitration Association
International Law Association
Awards
Selected 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
