Veijo Heiskanen

International arbitration, including commercial and investment arbitration. Focuses on the energy (including oil & gas), construction, infrastructure and mining sectors, as well as intellectual property and technology disputes. Vast experience as arbitrator, including as presiding arbitrator, in complex and high-value commercial and investment disputes. .

Independent Arbitrator and member of Arbitra International - April 2024 - Present.

Joined LALIVE in 2002, Partner.

Counsel and arbitrator in numerous international arbitration proceedings under most of the major arbitration rules, including the ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA, HKIAC, DIFC, SAC, SIAC, FAI, SCC, VIAC, WIPO and Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration – CRCICA.

Previously served as Legal Adviser at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal and as Deputy Chief of the Legal Service of the United Nations Compensation Commission.

Former member of the SCC Board and of several panels of arbitrators, including ICSID, AAA, ICDR Energy Arbitrators List, Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), and of numerous professional associations, including IBA, ILA, LCIA, IAI, ASA and Finnish Arbitration Association.

Author of numerous publications on international arbitration, including investment arbitration and public international law.

Veijo regularly publishes articles and is the author and co-author of many books relating to international commercial and investment arbitration. To request a complete list of publications, please contact [email protected]

Representative matters as Arbitrator in UCITRAL, PCA, ICSID, NAFTA, ICC, LCIA, DIFC-LCIA, HKIAC, SIAC, SCC & VIAC proceedings.

President in a USD 45 billion UNCITRAL arbitration administered by the PCA involving a greenfield thermal goal project in Australia.

President in a USD 35 billion UNCITRAL arbitration administered by the PCA involving a real estate development project a Middle Eastern jurisdiction.

Co-arbitrator in a USD 11 billion ad hoc arbitration over an alleged breach of a mining exploration license in Greenland.

President in a USD 7 billion UNCITRAL arbitration arising out of a project for the development of a coal-fired power station in Australia.

President in a USD 700 million UNCITRAL arbitration arising out of the alleged intervention by the Republic of Korea in the merger of two publicly traded companies.

President in a USD 700 million ICSID arbitration brought under the Energy Charter Treaty between an Austrian engineering company and a European state over changes in renewable energy regulations governing the development of offshore windfarms in the North Sea.

President in a EUR 380 million ICSID arbitration arising out of the alleged taking of a shipyard and related facilities.

President in a USD 400 million ICC arbitration relating to the adjustment of the price of LNG supplied under a long-term sale and purchase agreement.

President in a USD 470 million UNCITRAL/NAFTA arbitration concerning the development of an offshore wind farm.

President in a USD 280 million ICSID Additional Facility arbitration concerning a glass production business in a Latin American country.

President in a USD 40 million UNCITRAL arbitration concerning an automotive business in a North African country.

President in a USD 500 million ICSID arbitration arising out of an alleged expropriation of an agricultural business in Central America.

President in a USD 170 million ICSID arbitration brought by Chinese investors against an Asian state arising out of the revocation of telecommunication licenses.

President in an SDG 47 million SIAC arbitration arising out of financial arrangements relating to a construction of a luxury hotel in East Asia.

President in a Hong Kong-seated HKIAC arbitration arising out of sale of machinery for the construction of solar panels.

Presiding arbitrator in a DIFC-LCIA arbitration between a global construction contractor and a leading UAE electromechanical contracting company over the construction of a luxury hotel in Dubai.

Co-arbitrator in a EUR 112 million SCC arbitration arising out of the construction of a bioproduct mill in Northern Europe.

President of an ICSID annulment proceeding relating to the expropriation of a farming business in a West African jurisdiction.

President in a USD 100 million LCIA arbitration between an Emirati subsidiary of an Australian main contractor and a multinational sub-contractor over the construction of a luxury resort in Dubai.

Co-arbitrator in an ICSID arbitration arising out of a large-scale project for construction of a tunnel and related facilities in Rabat, Morocco.

Co-arbitrator in an ICC arbitration between a Turkish claimant and an African State arising out of large-scale housing project in Libya.

President in a EUR 5 million VIAC arbitration arising under a contract for the supply of goods and services to a State-owned security organization in an Eastern European jurisdiction.

Harvard Law School

S.J.D.

1992

Harvard Law School

LL.M.

1988

University of Helsinki

LL Lic.

1985

University of Helsinki

LLB.

1983

Commercial Dispute Resolution,

Construction, Engineering & Infrastructure,

Energy, Oil & Gas,

Environment, Renewables & Climate Change,

Investment Treaty Disputes,

Technology & Telecommunications.