Åke J. Fors
Senior Counsel, Member of the Swedish Bar Association
Profile
Åke is Senior Counsel in Setterwalls’ Banking and Finance group.
Since the late 1980s, Åke has advised Swedish and international companies, public authorities and institutions across a broad range of legal matters. His work is focused mainly on the financial sector and often has an international dimension.
His practice centres on banking and finance law, transportation law and arbitration. He also has extensive experience in insurance and reinsurance law. He built this experience through positions in Sweden and the United States and through international work on both disputes and transactions, including project financings.
Åke has on several occasions been named one of Sweden’s leading lawyers in banking and finance and corporate law. On three occasions, fellow lawyers surveyed by the magazine Legally Yours ranked him among Sweden’s ten leading business lawyers. Alongside his work as counsel, he has served as arbitrator in a number of proceedings.
He has taught at the Faculty of Law at Stockholm University for 25 years. He has also written articles on a range of legal subjects.
Language: English, German, Swedish, German
Karriär
1987-
Setterwalls
1987
Hedberg & Johnsson Advokatbyrå
1985-1986
Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens, New York and Lillick & Charles, San Fransisco
1983-1985
District Court of Stockholm, law clerk
1982
University of Oslo, Maritime Law
1982
Lund University, LL.M.
1981-1982
Lund University, research assistant at the Faculty of Law president of the student council for law courses in Sweden and member of the School Board of the Faculty of Law in Lund
