Alice Fremuth-Wolf Arbitrator, Counsel
Nationality(ies):
Austrian

Legal System:

Civil Law, European Law

Practice Areas:

Arbitration

Publications

Wegmüller/Fremuth-Wolf, Panoramic guide (formerly Getting the Deal Through) Litigation Funding – Jurisdiction „Austria“ Compare – Panoramic – Lexology (2026)

Fremuth-Wolf, Prozessfinanzierung im Insolvenzverfahren, ZIK Praxis, ZIK 2025/111

Fremuth-Wolf (ed.), Handbuch Prozessfinanzierung in Österreich (2025) Verlag Österreich

Fremuth-Wolf, Grundlagen und Praxis der Prozessfinanzierung: Modelle, Alternativen, Akteure und Vertragsgestaltung, in Fremuth-Wolf (ed.),, Handbuch Prozessfinanzierung in Österreich (2025) 1

Macedo/Fremuth-Wolf, Third-Party Funding in the Era of Arbitration Reform and ESG: What Lies Ahead?, in Baltag/Feldman (ed.), Reforming Arbitration Reform: Emerging Voices, New Strategies and Evolving Values (2025) 49

Jevtic/Fremuth-Wolf, Legal Finance: Different Types of Third-Party Funding and Alternatives, in Pitkowitz (ed.), Handbook on Third-Party Funding in International Arbitration, 2nd edition (2024) 201

Fremuth-Wolf/Vanas-Metzler, Chapter V: Developments on the Austrian Market, The VIAC Rules for Investment Arbitration and Mediation 2021 With Special Focus on Third Party Funding and VIAC as Appointing or Administering Authority for ad hoc Proceedings, in Klausegger/Klein et al (ed.), Austrian Yearbook on International Arbitration (2023), 371

Fremuth-Wolf, Prozessfinanzierung – kurz und bündig erklärt, ecolex 2022/535

Fremuth-Wolf/Jevtic, Prozessfinanzierung im Insolvenzverfahren – Vorteile und Chancen, in Kodek (ed.), Insolvenz-Forum 2021 und 2022 (2023) 59

Fremuth-Wolf, Third-Party Funding in Investment Arbitration: To Be or Not to Be?, in Brekoulakis/Weeramantry/Nagapetyan (ed.), Achieving the Arbitration Dream: Liber Amicorum for Julian Lew (2023) 371

Leinwather/Wong/Fremuth-Wolf, VIAC arbitration (Vienna Rules 2021): A step-by-step guide (2023)

Fremuth-Wolf/Leinwather, VIAC Explanatory Notes – A Secretariat’s Guide (2022), Preface 

Fremuth-Wolf/Kathan-Spath, VIAC Rules Revision 2021 Part I: Revised Vienna Rules Enter into Force on 1 July 2021 - Kluwer Arbitration Blog

Fremuth-Wolf/Vanas-Metzler, Die VIAC Schieds- und Mediationsordnung für Investitionsverfahren 2021, GesRZ-Spezial 2022, 19

Fremuth-Wolf/Nueber, Schiedsklauseln – eine Einleitung, GesRZ 2021, 133 

Fremuth-Wolf, Auswirkungen der COVID-19-Krise auf VIAC-Schiedsverfahren, ecolex 2020, 372

Liebscher/Fremuth-Wolf (eds.), Arbitration Law and Practice in Central and Eastern Europe, 2n ed. (2020)

Fremuth-Wolf, Handbook VIAC Rules of Arbitration and Mediation: A Practitioner’s Guide, 2n ed. (2019), Art 1 (with Horvath), Art 4 (with Vanas-Metzler), Art 5 (with Dobosz), Art 10 (with Rogge), Art 44 (with Vanas-Metzler) VIAC Rules; Art 1 (with Rogge), Art 4 (with Rogge), Art 7 (with Mattl), Art 8 (with Rogge), Art 14 (with Rogge) VIAC Mediation Rules; Annex 1 (with Grill), Annex 3 (with Rogge), Annex 4 (with Vanas-Metzler) 

Fremuth-Wolf/Vanas-Metzler, Die neuen VIAC Regeln 2018, ecolex 2018, 300

Heider/Fremuth-Wolf, Austria, in Tirado (contr. editor), International Arbitration, GLI, 2nd ed. (2016), 26

Fremuth-Wolf/Heider, in Selected Arbitral Awards, Vol 1 (2015) Annotations to A01, A 02, A 03, A 04

Fremuth-Wolf/Dobosz, Vienna International Arbitral Centre: No Job Name

Fremuth-Wolf, Zur Unterbrechung des Schiedsverfahrens bei Insolvenzeröffnung, ecolex 2015, 564

Fremuth-Wolf, The European Convention on International Arbitration as a Tool to Remedy Pathological Arbitration Agreements – „There’s still Life in the Old Dog yet!, in Klausegger/Klein et al (ed.), Austrian Yearbook on International Arbitration (2013) 61

Fremuth-Wolf in Riegler/Petsche/Fremuth-Wolf/Platte (ed.), Arbitration Law of Austria: Practice and Procedure (2007), Commentary §§ 577-584, § 592 ZPO; Art VII (with Platte); Special Topics: Confidentiality in Arbitration, Arbitration Agreement and Third Parties

Fremuth-Wolf, Die Schiedsvereinbarung im Zessionsfall (2004)

Fremuth, Schiedsverfahren und Konkurs - Zur Bindung des Masseverwalters an Schiedsvereinbarungen des Gemeinschuldners, ÖJZ 1998, 848

Fremuth, Das Unternehmensreorganisationsgesetz, RdW 1997, Sonderheft 

Fremuth/Reidinger, Feststellungsklage nach § 228 , JAP 1996/97, 38


Teaching

Oct 2012 – present:      lecturer at University of Vienna for Arbitration 

ELSA Vienna Summer Law School


Education

Oct – Dec 2021:             Mediation Advocacy Training (SAGE Mediation)

Jan – Nov 2004:             Mediator Training

May 2001:                       Austrian Bar Exam (with merits)

Oct 2001 – Dec 2002:   University of Vienna – Doctor of Law (Dr. iur.)

Oct 1997 – Sept 1998:  London School of Economics – LL.M. (with merits), SIA

March 1991 – June 1995: Vienna University and University of Utrecht (Mag. Iur.)


Other Information

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. 

 

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