Dr. Friedrich SCHWANK, TED, FchlArb
Senior Partner Firm Law Offices Dr. F. Schwank
Address: Stock Exchange Building Wipplingerstrasse 34 1010 Vienna Austria
Phone +43 1 5335 704
Fax +43 1 5335 706
Year of birth 1947
E-Mail offices@schwank.com
Nationality: Austrian
Languages: German, English
Education: Dr. iur., University of Innsbruck (1972)
Bar admission:
Admission as defence counsel in criminal matters (1974)
Admission as Austrian advocate (1976)
Prof. Experience:
Stagiaire at the Secretariat of the Court of Arbitration of the ICC, Paris (1975) Assistant with Woodham Smith, Solicitors, London (1975) Partner in the law firm Greiter & Schwank, Innsbruck (1976-1985) Lecturer at University of Economics, Vienna (1988-1998) Senior Partner, Law Offices Dr. F. Schwank since 1986
Areas of Specialisation:
International commercial arbitration and investment disputes
Succession and estate planning
Financial and tax law
Prof. Associations:
The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law
Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Fellow)
Austrian Committee of International Chamber of Commerce
International Law Association - Committee on International Securities Regulation;
AIPPI - International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property
Publications:
Banks Abroad: Establishment – Operation – Supervision: co-editor Frank R. Ryder, Kluwer Law Publishers, London 1986
Exchange Risks in International Contracts: National Report Austria on Currency Clauses, Currency Options and Swap Contracts: ICC Publication No. 440/3, Paris 1987 Arbitration in the Oil & Gas Industry: Oil and Gas Law & Taxation Review (1986-1987) II OGLTR 282, Oxford 1987
Arbitration Clauses in Bank Guarantees for the International Commodity Trade: International Commodity Law, Chichester, 5, January 1988
Arbitrage Commercial International en Autriche: Arbitrage International CFCE Paris 1990
International Corporate Insolvency, Buttersworths, 1992
Letters of Credit: Structuring International Contracts, ed. Dennis Campbell, Kluwer, London 1996
Structuring International Contracts, Kluwer Law, 1996
International Charitable Giving: Laws and Taxation, ed. Carol Shelborne George, Kluwer, 2000
Competition Laws of Europe: LexisNexis, 2nd Edition, 2003
The Tax Treatment of NGOs, ed. Paul Buter, Fritz Hondins, Penina Kessler, Kluwer, 2004
European Cross Border Estate Planning, ed. Timothy Lyons, Sweet & Maxwell 2017
International Estate Planning, edition Henry Christensen III LexisNexis, 2016 Ship Arrest in Austria, Shiparrested.com, 2016
Unfair Trading Practices, Wolters Kluwer, 2016 International Succession, 4 th edition 2015, OUP, ed. Louis Garb and John