Category: News

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 »

Chambers Europe has today published its annual ranking. LEX is ranked as a Band 1 firm for yet another year and is rated as one of Iceland’s leading law firms by all major rating agencies. In its review it is stated that the team is known for being a “….leading full-service firm with outstanding expertise… Read more »

Legal 500 has today published its latest ranking and announces that LEX law offices has been ranked as a top tier firm. In its review it is stated that: “LEX is one of Iceland´s leading law firms, providing clients with a comprehensive, range of services on a wide spectrum of financial, corporate and commercial issues,… Read more »