Aapo Saarikivi

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Aapo Saarikivi is a Partner specialized in commercial dispute resolution, heading the firm’s Corporate Compliance & Investigations practice in Finland. His practice covers arbitration, litigation and ADR. Apart from acting as counsel in legal proceedings, an important part of Aapo’s practice relates to dispute avoidance, claims management and strategic advisory work in various contentious settings. He also serves as arbitrator in domestic and international arbitrations.

Aapo‘s experience spans a variety of fields, with a special emphasis on disputes relating to industrial projects and energy, as well as the telecoms sector. He also has extensive experience of cartel damages actions, both in Finland and internationally.

In addition, Aapo has litigated and arbitrated M&A and corporate disputes, contentious finance and insolvency matters, and disputes relating to international trade & transport, agency & distribution, tax & customs and foreign investment.

Aapo has considerable experience of arbitrations conducted under the ICC, UNCITRAL, SCC and FAI Rules as well as ad hoc proceedings in different places of arbitration and under a variety of substantive laws.

In addition to his Finnish law degree, Aapo has studied law at Université Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille III in France and completed a secondment with Bredin Prat in Paris.