Arbitration

Arbitration

We offer you Finland’s leading team of arbitration specialists.

We have vast experience of acting as counsel or serving as arbitrators in ad hoc proceedings and under the main institutional rules, including those of the FAI, ICC, LCIA, SCC, DIS, Swiss Chambers and UNCITRAL. When necessary, our litigation team is available in support of arbitration.

Our assignments typically concern disputes related to mergers and acquisitions, energy, IT and telecommunications, construction and engineering, banking and finance, corporate law and securities, insurance, sale of goods as well as distribution and agency agreements. We also regularly advise clients on disputes in jurisdictions other than Finland.

Our arbitration expertise is highly respected by our peers, which is reflected by the positions of trust held by many of our experts.

The Legal 500, Chambers Europe and Chambers Global rank our dispute resolution services as tier 1.

Latest references

International reinsurance companies – Ad hoc arbitration proceedings

We successfully represented a panel of reinsurance companies in an international ad hoc arbitration. The dispute arose out of a reinsurance treaty under the terms of which the reinsurers had reinsured a portfolio of risks underwritten by the cedent. The parties disagreed as to whether the reinsurance provided coverage for a certain loss that had occurred because of the market turmoil caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The case involved highly complex legal and contractual questions requiring special expertise on reinsurance law and practice. The arbitral tribunal rejected the counterparty’s claims for reinsurance compensation against our clients in full. The amount in dispute was approximately EUR 34 million.

A large Finnish group – Construction contract dispute

We represented a mutual real estate company belonging to a large Finnish group in arbitration proceedings against a construction company. The arbitral tribunal rejected the construction company’s claims in their entirety and ordered the construction company to reimburse our client for the costs of the arbitration proceedings in full. The dispute concerned the contract price under the construction contract, which was agreed to be determined on the basis of our client’s yield requirement and the rent under the lease agreement for the building in question. The parties disagreed on the indexation clause applicable to the rent adjustment and its impact on the contract price.

Citycon – Sale of a 275-apartment residential portfolio

We assisted Citycon Oyj in the sale of the Lippulaiva residential assets in Espoo, Finland. The sold residential assets consist of 275 apartments totaling approximately 13,000 sqm, located in connection to Citycon’s Lippulaiva shopping centre. The assets were sold at their latest IFRS book value for a gross purchase price of EUR 61.5 million.

S-Bank – Issuance of EUR 150 million SNP notes and tender offer for notes maturing in 2026

We advised S-Bank Plc in its issuance of a EUR 150 million Senior Non-Preferred Notes and on the tender offer of its EUR 150 million Senior Preferred MREL Eligible Notes maturing in 2026. The tender offer required prior approval from the Finnish Financial Stability Authority based on the Commission’s regulatory technical standards (EU) 2023/827. The Stability Authority granted S-Bank a permission for repurchases of the notes. Based on the permission, S-Bank replaced the notes with own funds or eligible liabilities instruments of equal or higher quality at terms that are sustainable for the income capacity of S-Bank. According to the final tender offer results published on 10 December 2025, S-Bank repurchased a total of EUR 97.9 million of the notes. The new notes will pay a floating interest rate, which is determined based on 3-month Euribor added with a margin of 1.35 per cent. The notes were issued on 11 December 2025 and listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. The maturity date of the notes is 11 December 2029. The purpose of the issue was to meet the minimum requirement for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL) and to finance the bank’s activities.

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