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NetApp has acquired the Icelandic cloud solution company Greenqloud. Greenqloud was founded in 2010 and is the proud maker of Qstack, the comprehensive Cloud Management Platform that has a proven track record of deploying private cloud solutions at scale for both Service Providers and Global Enterprises. California based NetApp, provides software, systems, and services to… Read more »

Aðalsteinn Jónasson Supreme Court. LL.M and owner of LEX has been appointed judge at the newly established 1st court of appeal, Landsrettur. Mr. Jonasson, who has worked intermittent at LEX since 1992, is one of Iceland’s greatest experts in the field of capital market law. Mr. Jónasson is the author of the books: Trading in… Read more »

Garðar Valdimarsson has joined LEX and will provide tax advice to LEX customers. Mr. Valdimarsson is one of Iceland’s leading tax experts. He has worked in the field of tax since his graduation in accounting and law from the University of Iceland and post-graduation study in tax law at the University of Copenhagen in 1976…. Read more »

Óskar Sigurðsson Supreme Court Attorney and Adjunct at the Faculty of Law of the University of Iceland has joined the LEX Law Offices. In recent years, Mr. Sigurdsson has run JP lawyers in partnership with others, but he acquired JP lawyers in full earlier this year. Agreements have now been reached on the merger of… Read more »

On 18 November 2016, the District Court of Reykjavík rendered its verdict in the landmark case of Ferskar kjötvörur ehf. against the Icelandic State. In short, the case involved the plaintiff, Ferskar kjötvörur ehf., as subsidiary of the Icelandic grocery and retail giant, Hagar hf., having imported 83 kgs of fresh (unfrozen) beef tenderloin to… Read more »

On April 26 2016 the Icelandic Chamber of Commerce and SA the Confederation of Icelandic Employers hosted an open meeting on public authorities’ intervention into the market. Among speakers was Heiðrún Lind Marteinsdóttir, Attorney and Partner at LEX. In her speech she talked about the competence of the Icelandic Competition Authority to intervene when companies… Read more »

The World Trademark Review 1000 (WTR 1000) has published the 2016 The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals. LEX honoured that according to this publication two partners at LEX Mrs. Erla S Arnadottir and Mrs. Hulda Arnadottir are thought to be among the World’s Leading Trademark Professionals. Furthermore LEX Law Offices are ranked in the “Gold Band”… Read more »

One of LEX’s Partners Mr Karl Axelsson, Supreme Court Attorney and Associate Professor at the University of Iceland, has been appointed as judge of the Supreme Court of Iceland. Mr Axelsson is one of LEX’s most experienced attorneys and is among the most respected lawyers in the country. Mr Axelsson’s areas of expertise are inter… Read more »

Reykjavik’s commercial and office workers union (“VR”) published on May 7th its findings from an extensive labor market survey. The companies in the top ten positions in each category are truly exemplary and considers VR reason to draw particular attention to their performance. LEX Law Offices was among the top 10 in the class of… Read more »

Þórunn Guðmundsdóttir, Supreme Court Attorney at LEX Law Offices was today elected Chairman of the Board of the Central Bank of Iceland. Þórunn was elected to the Board the Central Bank by the parliament in March instead of Mrs. Olof Nordal which left the board when she took the office of Minister of Interior. At… Read more »