Practice Areas:
Financial and corporate
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Biography
Joined Lagahvoll slf. in January 2014. Prior to joining Lagahvoll slf. Mr. Sigurðsson worked at MP banki as Head of Legal and Compliance from 2006 and then head of Corporate Development from September 2011. Before joining MP banki, Mr. Sigurðsson worked as Head of Legal and Compliance at Icebank from 1999. He has a LLM degree in Corporate Law from New York University Law School and passed the Icelandic Bar Exam in 2002 and the New York Bar Exam in 2003. Mr. Sigurðsson has served as board member for a number of Icelandic and international companies. He is also a certified stock broker and a committee Member on Complaints Committee on Transactions with Financial Firms.
Recent case/matter highlights
- Lagahvoll advised and litigated, on behalf of Mr. Sigmar Vilhjálmsson and Sjarmur and Garmur ehf., the case against Stemma hf. and majority shareholders of Stemma hf. The matter concerned the minority shareholder claim that the majority shareholders sold Stemma´s rights in Lava Centre at a price which does not reflect the value being sold. The Distict Court of Reykjavik Ruled on 20 June 2018 in favour of our client.
- Lagahvoll advised ibot ehf. on the sale of company´s own shares to an investment fund (start-up fund) from Germany, next media accelerator GmbH, which purchased a small stake in the overall share capital of the company.
- Lagahvoll advised Dophop in negotiations with easyJet regarding a convertible loan agreement.
- Lagahvoll provided Félagsbústaðir (Reykjavík Social Housing) with legal advice on its recent issue and listing of bond framework of up to ISK 50 billion.
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