Laila Sivonen

Laila Sivonen is one of Finland’s leading practitioners in corporate investigations, compliance, and complex dispute resolution. Based in Helsinki, she is a Partner specialising in corporate compliance, ethics, and commercial dispute resolution.

Laila has extensive experience in complex, multi-jurisdictional investigations involving suspicions of fraud, corruption, and other white-collar crime. She has played a key role in uncovering and analysing financial misconduct, tracing assets across jurisdictions, and coordinating investigative and legal strategies with international counsel, forensic experts, and authorities. Her international investigations experience spans Finland, Sweden, the USA, Ukraine, Hungary, Latvia, China, and beyond.

Her work frequently involves advising clients on anti-corruption compliance, whistleblowing frameworks, and sanctions regimes. In addition to her investigative practice, Laila acts in international and domestic arbitration and litigation under ICC, FAI, SCC, AAA, and ad hoc rules, regularly assisting clients with the enforcement of arbitral awards and foreign judgments, including asset identification and recovery in cross-border settings.

She is recognised as a Next Generation Partner in Dispute Resolution (Finland) by The Legal 500 and ranked Up and Coming in the Chambers Europe guide. She is a member of the Finnish Bar Association.