Haakon specialises in international arbitration. For more than a decade, he has worked almost exclusively with international arbitration proceedings, acting as counsel in numerous arbitrations governed by ICC, SCC and OCC arbitration rules, as well as in ad hoc arbitrations governed by the Norwegian Arbitration Act. In addition to working as counsel, Haakon also regularly sits as arbitrator. In total, he has acted as counsel and arbitrator in more than 25 arbitrations, including some of the largest commercial arbitration disputes in the world, with amounts at stake exceeding dozens of billions of euros. The arbitrations have concerned in particular the European gas sector, the renewable energy sector (wind) and post-M&A. He has handled matters governed by Norwegian, German, Swedish, Swiss and Ukrainian law.
Haakon also has experience with leading challenge and enforcement proceedings in numerous jurisdictions, as well as with EU procedural, competition and energy law, and sanctions.
In addition to Norwegian (native) and English (fluent), Haakon also speaks Russian (proficient) and Spanish (intermediate).
- Partner, Peter & Kim, Geneva (2026- present)
- Specialist Counsel, Wikborg Rein, Oslo (2024-2025)
- Senior Lawyer, Wikborg Rein, Oslo (2020-2023)
- Senior Associate, Wikborg Rein, Oslo (2017-2019)
- Associate, Wikborg Rein, Oslo (2013-2016)
- Swedish Arbitration Association’s and SCC’s Skiljedomarutbildning (arbitrator training programme) (2024)
- SCC Diploma course for International Arbitrators (2024)
- Practising Certificate (2015)
- Law school, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia (2011-2012)
- Master of Laws, University of Bergen (2006-2012)
- Ad hoc arbitration over an SPA related to renewable energy (wind).
- A large ICC arbitration between an Eastern European gas market participant and a Russian gas seller.
- SCC arbitration over an SHA relating to multimillion (EUR) damages claims based on non-correction of breaches (Chairman of the Arbitral Tribunal).
- Multiple SCC arbitrations between an Eastern European gas buyer and transporter and a Russian gas seller arising from the Parties’ gas sales and transit agreements.
- Ad hoc arbitration regarding a price review under an LNG sales agreement between two Western European companies.
- Board member, Young Arbitration Practitioners Norway
- Document production in Scandinavia, Stockholm Arbitration Yearbook 2024 (together with Aksel Kolstad)
- Suppose you went to arbitration and the opponent did not come? (2023) (together with Aadne Haga, Marie Nesvik and Olga Ivaniv)
- Er norske parter tilstrekkelig forberedt på dagens internasjonale voldgiftspraksis? (together with Ola Nisja and Marie Nesvik) (Norwegian only)
- Virtuelle forhandlinger i voldgift – Særlig om voldgiftsrettens kompetanse til å beslutte virtuell hovedforhandling (together with Nina Lauber-Thommessen) (Norwegian only) (Tidsskrift for forretningsjus vol. 27/21)
- The Naftogaz – Gazprom Saga, Debunking myths about the arbitration awards (Arbitration Journal 11 February 2021) (together with Dag Mjaaland, Aadne Haga and Anne-Karin Nesdam)
- A hard-fought victory for the rule of law (together with Aadne Haga and Anne-Karin Nesdam) (2020)
- “Ordre public ved tvangsfullbyrdelse av voldgiftsdommer i Russland” [“Ordre public in enforcing arbitral awards in Russia“] (Norwegian only) in Borgar H. Berg and Ola Ø. Nisja (red.), Avtalt prosess – Voldgift i praksis, Universitetsforlaget (2015)
- “Maintaining the Best of Nordic Arbitration in a More Globalized Market“, panel debate at Nordic Arbitration Day, Reykjavik, Iceland (2025)
- “Extraordinary threats to arbitration and how to respond to them“, moderator at DAC Beachcroft’s roundtable discussion in London, England (2025)
- “Arbitration in the oil and gas market amid geopolitical changes and security considerations”, NSELP, UiO, in Oslo, Norway (2024)
- “Choice of law issues arising in international arbitration“, panel debate at Max Planck Institute, Hamburg, Germany (2024)
- “Soft Skills in international arbitration“, panel debate at ISTAC, in Istanbul, Turkye (2024)
- “Your first arbitrator assignment“, panel debate at NAD, in Helsinki, Finland (2024)
- Speaker Energy Law Club “Impacts of new market and geopolitical realities on gas supply contractual strategies“, UiO, Oslo, Norway (2022)
- Speaker NSELP re gas disputes, UiO, Oslo, Norway (2022)
- Keynote speech on “Evidence in international arbitration” and Q&A session EEFI (2021)
- “Introduction to arbitration“, UiO, Oslo, Norway (2021)
- Speaker, Privatrettssymposiet, UiO, Oslo, Norway (2020)