International Arbitration

  • A Finnish construction developer and its subsidiary against another Nordic company in a Stockholm-based SCC arbitration regarding the sale and purchase of shares of a Russian company. 
  • A major German company against a Finnish listed company in one of the largest-ever ICC arbitrations seated in Finland, where the interest at stake amounted to MEUR 700. 
  • A Norwegian company in a complex and strategically important dispute over a shareholders’ agreement between our client and Russian shareholders relating to joint operations in Russia. The case was arbitrated and litigated in several legal proceedings in Russia and Finland.
  • Finnish and foreign banks in an investment treaty arbitration against a former Eastern-bloc state under the ICSID Arbitration Rules. This case is the first-ever BIT dispute involving Finnish companies. 
  • A Swiss company against a Societas Europaea in a dispute over subcontractor’s liability under a manufacturing agreement in an arbitration under the Finnish Central Chamber of Commerce Rules. 
  • A Russian subsidiary of a Finnish construction company against a Russian subsidiary of a major multinational retail company as the building owner in an arbitration governed by the SCC Arbitration Rules and Swedish material law. The dispute concerned a major construction project in Russia with claims exceeding MUSD 75. Apart from the main arbitration proceedings before a Stockholm-based arbitral tribunal, complicated court proceedings regarding the attachment of the counterparty's assets (totalling MUSD 18) based on first demand guarantees took place before the Supreme Court of Finland. After the tribunal had issued a partial award in the case, the dispute ended in a settlement favourable to our client.
  • A Finnish engineering consortium in an ad hoc arbitration in Switzerland against a Turkish customer who had ordered a power plant. The applicable material law was Turkish law while Swiss procedural law applied. 
  • One of the world’s leading manufacturers of medical equipment in an ad hoc arbitration against a Middle-Eastern company over the termination of a distributorship agreement, involving complicated questions of applicable law. 
  • A Finnish company against an Estonian company in a Helsinki-based ICC arbitration regarding the delivery of certain technical equipment. 
  • A Swiss company against a Finnish company in an oil and gas related dispute. 
  • A Chinese company against a Finnish supplier of components in the mobile phone industry. 
  • A major Finnish financing company in a reinsurance dispute against UK reinsurers in a London-based UNCITRAL arbitration. 
  • A Finnish company in an ad hoc arbitration against a Dutch company concerning the termination of an agency agreement. 
  • A major German company against a Finnish listed company in a complex M&A dispute resolved under the ICC Arbitration Rules in Sweden, the value of the dispute exceeding MEUR 60.