LOGOS Legal Services and Icelandair will jointly host a networking event on the 15^th of March 2012 in London between the members of the British-Icelandic Chamber of Commerce and various people interested in promoting trade between the UK and Iceland. Gudmundur J. Oddsson, Head of London Office, is a member of the board of the BICC, and will give a short presentation of the firms operations in London.

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An article by Erlendur Gíslason, Ólafur Eiríksson, Heiðar Ásberg Atlason and Heiðar Örn Stefánsson, published in Getting the Deal Through, http://www.gettingthedealthrough.com/

 

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An article by Helga Melkorka Óttarsdóttir and Halldór Brynjar Halldórsson. This article appeared in the 2012 edition of the international Comparative Guide to: Merger Control, published by Global Legal Group Ltd., London.

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IFLR1000 has ranked LOGOS as a top tier law firm in Iceland. Some of LOGOS lawyers were also considered to excel in their respective fields.

This appraisal is a great acknowledgement for LOGOS whereas The IFLR1000  is the guide to the world's leading financial law firms. Based on extensive independent research, they provide rankings and analysis of the best financial law firms operating in more than 100 markets worldwide.

The rankings reflect the opinions of clients and competitors of LOGOS, which are gathered during an extensive interview process.

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The British Icelandic Chamber of Commerce, where Gudmundur J Oddsson, partner and head of our London office serves on the Executive Committee, sponsored a symposium in London on the 29th of September 2011 under the title “Iceland – The New Opportunity”.

Key figures in politics, business, finance and energy met in the heart of British government to discuss progress in Iceland since the financial crisis of 2008 and to assess the prospects for the economy and trade in the future.

Árni Páll Árnason, Minister of Economic Affairs of Iceland delivered a keynote speech, followed by presentations from Már Guðmundsson, Governor of the Central Bank of Iceland, Cyrus Ardalan, Vice-Chairman, Barclays Plc and Helga Valfells, New Business Venture Fund. The afternoon ended with talks from  Hörður Árnason, CEO, Landsvirkjun - The National Power Company and Franek Rozwadowski, IMF Resident Representative in Iceland.

The symposium, which was full to capacity, heard about the economic and structural reforms that are underway in Iceland, the positive effects that they are having and the success that Iceland has had in following the prescription that it worked out with the IMF. The audience also heard dispassionate evidence of how foreign investors are coming to look at Iceland in an increasingly favourable light as the crisis recedes, and how entrepreneurship has increased as a reaction to the crisis. Not least, the audience heard how Iceland might some day supply electricity directly to the UK and other European nations.

Please find attached below PDF versions of the presentations.

Arni_Pall_Arnason.pdf
Cyrus_Ardalan.pdf
Franek_Rozwadowski.pdf
Helga_Valfells.pdf
Mar_Gudmundsson.pdf
Hordur_Arnason.pdf

If you have any questions please contact Gudmundur J. Oddsson at gudmundur.oddsson@logoslegalservices.com or +44 207 920 3020.

The British-Icelandic Chamber of Commerce (where Gudmundur J. Oddsson, Head of our London office, serves on the Executive Committee) is hosting a Symposium on the Icelandic economy, political landscape etc. on Thursday 29 September 2011 in London.

We have some very interesting speakers, including but not limited to:

• Mr. Arni Pall Arnason, Minister of Economic Affairs
• Mr Mar Gudmundsson, Governor of the Central Bank of Iceland
• Mr. Cyrus Ardalan, Vice-Chairman, Barclays PLC
• Mr. Franek Rozwadowski, IMF Resident Representative for Iceland

Please see here for further information about the Symposium or visit http://www.bicc.is/news/nr/826/

If you would like to attend, please send an email to kristin@chamber.is or contact gudmundur.oddsson@logoslegalservices.com, tel.: 00 44 207 920 3020.

 

Chambers and Partners has once again judged LOGOS as top rank legal advisers in Iceland. Some of LOGOS lawyers were also considered to excel in their respective fields. 

The appraisal is based on interviews with buyers of legal services and considers factors such as professionalism, technical ability, customer service, reliability and response time, in addition to factors customers consider to be most important for good quality legal services.

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Halla Bjorgvinsdottir, Reykjavik University Faculty of Law, and Fridrik Arni Fridriksson Hirst, University of Iceland Faculty of Law were awarded the LOGOS grant for 2011. The grant is awarded for excellent educational performance in law studies at the University of Iceland and Reykjavik University.

Congratulations to Halla and Fridrik on their success.

On May 24, the Ambassador of Norway will host a reception in collaboration with the London offices of the Nordic law firms, LOGOS Legal Services, Kromann Reumert and Thommessen.

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Óttar Pálsson, Supreme Court Attorney, has joined LOGOS Legal Services as a partner. Ottar will advise companies and investors on M&A and capital markets related transactions, banking and financial restructurings, in addition to becoming engaged in commercial litigation.

Ottar served as the Chief Executive Officer of ALMC hf. (previously Straumur Burdaras Investment bank hf.) from March 2009 up until the end of 2010, and lead the bank´s operational and financial restructuring. Ottar will serve on the Board of ALMC hf. in conjunction with the law practice.

Ottar was the General Counsel of Straumur Burdaras Investment bank hf., from September 2006 to March 2009. Before that time he worked at Adalsteinsson and Partners and LOGOS Legal Services, as a partner from 2002-2006.

Ottar graduated from the University of Iceland Faculty of Law in 1997, he studied at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), Faculty of Law, in 1996 and 1997, and finished his Master of Laws (LL.M) in Company, Banking and Securities Law from University College London, in November 2001. Ottar became a Supreme Court Attorney in 2006.

Chambers Global has ranked LOGOS as top legal advisers in Iceland in 2011.

Chambers Global identifies the leading lawyers and law firms in more than 180 jurisdictions. The Global guide focuses particularly on those lawyers with international practices and gives greater coverage to cross-border work.

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The English firms Chambers and Partners , The Legal 500 and IFLR1000 have judged LOGOS as top rank legal advisers in Iceland. Some of LOGOS lawyers were also considered to excel in their respective fields.

This appraisal is a great acknowledgement for LOGOS whereas Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500 and IFLR1000 are international firms which specialise in appraisals of legal services. The appraisal is based on interviews with buyers of legal services and considers factors such as professionalism, technical ability, customer service, reliability and response time, in addition to factors customers consider to be most important for good quality legal services

See further Chambers and Partners here, The Legal 500 here and IFLR1000 here.
          

Haflidi Kristjan Larusson has been promoted to the position of partner of the LOGOS London office, as of March 1, 2010. 

Haflidi has worked for the London office since 2007 and has participated in the building of a great team.  He will now take more active part in the operation of the office and continue his role as a case manager.

Haflidi has four post-graduate degrees.  D.S.U. from Université Panthéon-Assas 1996, D.E.S.S. from University of Toulouse 1997, M.A. from the University of Western Ontario 1999, and an LL.M. degree from Nottingham Trent University 2007. He received a post-graduate diploma from The College of Law, England 2001 and Nottingham Law School 2006.  He worked at White & Case, London from 2002 until he joined LOGOS in 2007.  Hafliði has done lecturing at the University of Reykjavik Faculty of Law since 2007.  He is the Icelandic member at the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (Paris) since July 2009.
We congratulate Haflidi on the promotion and know that he will continue his excellent work for the firm.

Some Thoughts on the Causes of the 2008 Financial Crisis
(From the Perspective of a UK Investment Banker Who Saw it Unfold)

The conference will start with lunch at Nordica Hotel, second floor, 12:00 Monday 7 September and will finish at 13:30.

Jas Bains will give a short presentation of the underlying causes of the 2008 Financial Crisis seen from his view as a banker at Barclays Capital in London. Barclays Capital was and remains a global market leader in structured products.

Jas Bains is a Solicitor in England and Wales at LOGOS Legal Services in London. Jas is a Cambridge University graduate and trained and qualified as a solicitor at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London. After 4 years at Freshfields, Jas joined ING Bank, London and later Barclays Capital, London where he worked in the Structured Capital Markets team. Jas joined LOGOS in London early 2009 and leads the firm’s UK qualified team on Banking and Finance Law as well as Restructuring.

On May 14, the Icelandic Ambassador to the United Kingdom will host að reception in collaboration with the London offices of the Nordic law firms, LOGOS, Vinge, Kromann Reumert and Thommessen, see here.

Newsletter on the Icelandic Emergency Act.

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This new year LOGOS got reinforcements from Denmark, when Peter Mollerup and Carsten Møllekilde joined the partnership. They have practiced law for many years in Denmark and both were partners at the law firm Johan Schluter advokatfirma.

At the Copenhagen office, we currently have in addition to Peter and Carsten three attorneys and two assistants. LOGOS in Copenhagen will mainly deal with corporate services, with emphasis on M&A, capital markets and real estate investments.

By establihing an branch in Denmark LOGOS is breaking new ground, for Carsten and Peter are the first foreign attorney´s who become partners in an Icelandic law firm, besides that LOGOS in Denmark will become the first Danish law firm to be owned by a foreign law firm.

Opening in Copenhagen is a part of LOGOS´ progressive development as a law firm, but the objective is to tend to our clients in the best way possible. We believe that our operations in Reykjavik, Copenhagen and London are more than qualified to meet with our clients needs, which increasingly have transfered part of their operations to England and Scandinavia.

The operation in Denmark will be introduced further in the next weeks, with visits to LOGOS´ clients among other things.

LOGOS is hosting a reception in London on the 24th of May in cooperation with the Scandinavian Law Alliance. The reception will be held at the Danish Embassy on Sloane Street (same building as the Icelandic Embassy). Those who would like to join are kindly asked to send an email to Katrin Gunnarsdottir (katrin@logos.is).

On February 16, 2007 LOGOS signed a contract sponsoring an assistant professorship for administration law at the University of Iceland for the next three years. Gunnar Sturluson, the Managing Partner of LOGOS, Kristin Ingolfsdottir, the rector of the University of Iceland and Páll Hreinsson, dean at the Faculty of Law, signed the agreement at an event marking the beginning of the 100th anniversary of LOGOS.

“As we specialise in legal services for the business community we thought, at this milestone, it would be appropriate to significantly contribute to the strengthening of research in the field of administration law, focusing on financial regulations, as it will benefit our clients and the whole business community in general,” commented Gunnar Sturluson.

On November 9 2006 LOGOS, Vinge, Kromann Reumert and Thommessen invite you to a seminar:  ACUISITIONS IN THE NORDIC REGION - TAX STRUCTURING.

The main focus will be on the following topics:

• Tax efficient structure for acquiring a Nordic target
• Taxation of equity-based executive compensation

More information on the seminar

On May 4, 2006 Vinge, Kromann Reumert, Thommessen and LOGOS hosted a seminar on: Icelandic Investments in the UK and Skandinavia.  

"The Internationa Expansion of Icelandic Companies" 
Armann Thorvaldsson, Singer & Friedlander Group

"Investments in the UK" 
Lýður Guðmundsson, Bakkavör Group

Pictures from the event

On January 1, 2006 LOGOS opened an office in London in cooperation with Vinge from Sweden, Kromann Reumert from Denmark and Thommessen Krefting Greve Lund from Norway. 
 
On May 4, 2006 Vinge, Kromann Reumert, Thommessen and LOGOS are hosting a seminar on: ICELANDIC INVESTMENTS IN THE UK AND SCANDINAVIA.