Alice Fremuth-Wolf specializes in international dispute resolution and litigation finance.  

She has served as a senior professional with a leading Swiss provider of legal finance solutions which she continues to advise on matters pertaining to Austria & the CEE region. Alice is familiar with the needs of clients seeking financing as well as the strategic objectives of funders and their investors. She has extensive experience conducting due diligence and providing clients with detailed risk assessments and practical evaluations of whether a certain finance or risk insurance solution aligns with their needs.  She also assists in negotiating litigation funding agreements and, thanks to her wide network across the litigation finance industry, connects clients with suitable funding partners.  

Alice also brings a decade of leadership experience from the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC), one of the leading arbitration and mediation institutions in the CEE and SEE region, where she served as Deputy and later Secretary General for 10 years. In this capacity, she oversaw case management, guided several revisions of the VIAC Rules, introduced technological advancements, such as a digital file-sharing platform, and expanded business development across the region. Performing this role over a decade further deepened her understanding of dispute resolution in CEE and SEE jurisdictions. 

Alice is a board-member of the Austrian Arbitration Association since 2022 and was recently elected as its president for the period 2026-2028.

A frequent speaker on international arbitration, mediation, and litigation finance, Alice also lectures on arbitration at the Institute of Civil Procedure Law of the University of Vienna. From 2004 to 2010, she coached Vienna’s team for the Vis Moot.  She has authored numerous publications on arbitration, ADR, and litigation finance, and in 2024 was appointed to the IBA Task Force for the revision of the IBA Guidelines on Conflict of Interest in International Arbitration. 

Practice Areas: Valuation & damages advisory analysis of economic and financial issues arising in international and commercial disputes. Focus on disputes involving investments in infrastructure/regulated sectors and on quantification of economic damages, including loss of profits, consequential losses and loss of business opportunity. Experience includes: business valuation and valuation of real assets in the context of political intervention, analysis of the economic and risk-allocation characteristics of service concessions contracts, and assessment of damages in investor-state disputes, contract and contract termination disputes and post-M&A claims (i.e: breach of warrantee claims).

10 years of experience as a professional economist

Nordic legal background (Norwegian Master of Laws and Bar Admission) and particular Swiss law experience (practiced in Switzerland since 2011).

Presiding arbitrator, co-arbitrator, sole arbitrator, tribunal secretary and counsel to parties in international commercial arbitrations conducted under a variety of arbitration rules, including the ICC Rules, the Swiss Rules, the SCC Rules, the DIA Rules, the UNCITRAL Rules, the CAM Rules and the LCIA Rules, and many national arbitration acts and substantive laws from the civil law and common law traditions.

Kathryn specialises in Dispute Advisory Services including providing privileged advice, as an Expert Witness in litigation and international arbitration, and as an Expert Determiner.

Kathryn has a degree in Mathematics. She trained with Deloitte Haskins & Sells (now PwC) and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1979. In 1990 she joined BDO, where she became an audit partner (until 2005) and a forensic partner, eventually becoming the UK National Head of Forensic Accounting. She joined KPMG in 2010 where she was Chairman of KPMG Forensic UK until 2016 and is now a Managing Director at AlixPartners.

Kathryn has 40 years’ experience in the accounting profession. For the last 24 years her focus has been in expert witness and dispute advisory services in particular pre-action advice, litigation support and alternative dispute resolution including mediation, arbitration and expert determination. She has also undertaken many forensic investigations.

Kathryn’s industry experience is very broad and includes, natural resources, construction, financial services, retail and consumer goods, travel manufacturing, telecoms, professional services, pharmaceuticals, hospitality, and the public sector.

Kathryn is one of the UK’s most senior and experienced accountancy expert witnesses, having written hundreds of reports and given oral evidence on many occasions. She has extensive experience in high profile, international cases where she has acted for both claimants and defendants.

Kathryn is regularly appointed jointly by parties as an Expert Determiner and is a member of the scheme under which Expert Determiners are appointed by the President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (the ICAEW).

Kathryn is particularly known for her keen analytical mind. Her wealth of experience, and ability to identify and articulate the critical issues, have enabled her to provide clear and robust testimony and also to assist with many pre-action exchanges that have resulted in successful and significant settlements outside the courts. Kathryn’s many years’ experience as an auditor, and her current audit and accounting knowledge, mean that she is well placed to identify and assess the key issues that are relevant in considering causation and quantum

Kathryn’s testimonials include:

“brilliant”

“…one of the foremost expert witness in the UK”;

“extremely knowledgeable and professional”; and

“great ability to adapt to the client’s needs”.

Kathryn is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in England and Wales and a Fellow of the Academy of Experts. She is past Chair of the Audit Committee of the ICAEW and has been a member of the ICAEW Council (its ultimate governing body) since 2013.

Kathryn is a member of the board of the London Chamber of Arbitration and Mediation

Kathryn has 40 years’ experience in the accounting profession. For the last 24 years her focus has been in expert witness and dispute advisory services in particular pre-action advice, litigation support and alternative dispute resolution including mediation, arbitration and expert determination. She has also undertaken many forensic investigations.

Damage assessment and valuation in dispute contexts