Louis Buchman

After receiving his legal education at the University of Paris, Louis Buchman was admitted to the Paris Bar in 1974 (Board Certified as a specialist in Arbitration Law and in International and European Union Law) and as an attorney-at-law in New York in 1989. In 2019, after more than a decade as a partner of Fieldfisher LLP, he founded lexforce, an independent arbitration and mediation boutique firm in Paris (www.lexforce.paris). He is an experienced arbitrator (having served as chair, sole arbitrator or party-appointed arbitrator in 23 international arbitrations, dealing with Software Licensing, Solar Energy, Construction and Infrastructure, Public Works, Licensing Agreements and Sales of Goods) as well as a mediator in domestic and international mediations dealing with Shareholders’ Disputes or Pharmaceutical Patents. He is accredited by the World Intellectual Property Organization, the AAA-ICDR and ICC France. In France, he has been ranked for fourteen years (and again in 2026) by Best Lawyers© in the arbitration and mediation categories. Louis is the author of many publications and articles, relating to Arbitration and Mediation, Corporate Governance, First Demand Bank Guarantees, Legal Ethics, and Business and Human Rights. Louis speaks, in addition to his native French, English, Polish and Italian, and has a working knowledge of German. He served for 25 years as member of the French Delegation to the Council of the Bars of Europe (CCBE) and was chair of the CCBE’s Finance Committee and of the International Legal Services Committee. He also served as member of the Paris Bar Council (2013-2015) and of the French National Bar Council (2018-2020), in the latter as chair of its European and International Affairs Commission. Louis was a captain in the French Navy and served in Special Forces.