Veijo Heiskanen

Partner, Geneva

+41 58 105 2000

vheiskanen@lalive.law

Veijo Heiskanen

Veijo specialises in international arbitration, including commercial and investment arbitration, and has acted as counsel and arbitrator in numerous international arbitration proceedings under most of the major arbitration rules. These include the ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA, SCAI, SCC, WIPO and Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration – CRCICA.

Ranked Band 1 Chambers Europe, Arbitration, 2023, Veijo has vast experience as arbitrator, including as presiding arbitrator, in complex and high-value commercial and investment disputes and “in terms of quality, he is one of the best” Chambers Europe, Arbitration, 2023.

Recognition

Ranked Band 1 in Chambers Global, Arbitration Counsel
Chambers Global, 2023

Ranked Band 1 in Chambers Global Market Leaders
Chambers Global, 2023

Ranked Tier 1 in Legal 500 EMEA
Legal 500 EMEA, Dispute Resolution: Arbitration, 2023

Recent publications

Three Simple Rules for Conducting a Cross-Examination
VEIJO HEISKANEN
In: Lexology Online, 11 May 2022

The virtual matrix: re-thinking hearings in international arbitration
VEIJO HEISKANEN, SAM MOSS, ANITA SUBEDI
In: LALIVE Blog, 2020

Sovereign Immunity – Switzerland
VEIJO HEISKANEN, SANDRINE GIROUD
In:Tai-Heng Cheng and Odysseas G Repousis, (Contributing Eds.), Getting the Deal Through – Sovereign Immunity, 2018

Recent conferences

SCC Arbitration Institute / Swedish Arbitration Association
Highlights of the Past Year in International Arbitration
VEIJO HEISKANEN, Speaker
Stockholm September 2022

Basel Winter Arbitration School
VEIJO HEISKANEN, Speaker
Digitalisation of international arbitration
Basel, February 2022

TA-IBA EU Investment Law Virtual Conference
The Future of Investment Law in the EU
VEIJO HEISKANEN, Speaker
The future implications of the Achmea, Komstroy and PL Holdings rulings by the CJEU on investment law in the EU
Online, December 2021

Current memberships

  • Member of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC),
  • Member of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC)
  • Member of the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association (JCAA)
  • Member of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)

Career history

  • Partner, LALIVE, 2002 – present
  • Legal Adviser at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, 1990 – 1994
  • Deputy Chief of the Legal Service of the United Nations Compensation Committee, 1994 –1998

Academic qualifications

  • SJD, Harvard Law School, 1992
  • Harvard Law School, 1988
  • LL Lic., University of Helsinki, 1985
  • University of Helsinki, 1983

Practices

  • Arbitration - International Commercial
  • Arbitration - Investment Treaty
  • Public International Law

Sectors

  • Construction & Infrastructure
  • Energy
  • Mining
  • Pharma
  • Technology

Languages

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Swedish
  • Finnish

Nationality

  • Finnish
“An outstanding professional” GAR 100, Arbitration, 2023