Heidi Yildiz is a senior attorney in D&I’s Dispute Resolution team. Her experience includes working on complex international commercial arbitration disputes under the ICC, LCIA, DIS, UNCITRAL, PCA and the Arbitration Institute of the Finland Chamber of Commerce Rules. Heidi is an English qualified Solicitor. She trained and qualified in WilmerHale’s London office, where she practiced international arbitration as a solicitor until she joined Dittmar & Indrenius in 2011. Heidi has previously also worked in the London office of Herbert Smith Freehills (2004 to 2005).

She obtained her LLB with honours from City University, London and Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice from BPP Law School, London. Heidi has authored and co-authored several articles on commercial arbitration. She is a member of the Law Society of England and Wales, the Finnish Bar Association, the International Bar Association, the LCIA’s Young International Arbitration Group, ICDR Young & International, Young Arbitrators Stockholm, the Finnish Arbitration Association and Young Arbitration Club Finland.

Joined Dittmar & Indrenius: 2011

Admitted: England and Wales (Solicitor) 2009; Finland (Registered European Lawyer, EU-Asianajaja) 2012

Education: City University, London (LL.B. (Hons), 2003); BPP Law School, London (Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, 2004)

Languages: Finnish, English, German, Swedish and Turkish

Publications & Lectures: Author and co-author of several articles on commercial arbitration

• The Dispute Resolution Review, 9th Edition
• The European Middle Eastern and African Arbitration Review 2015 Finland Chapter
• The binding effect of an arbitration agreement on non-signatories: the Finnish perspective, Arbitration News - Newsletter of the International Bar Association Legal Practice Division, Vol 18 No 1, February2013