Innherji, an Icelandic business news media, published an article today by Eva Margrét Ævarsdóttir, who leads Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) services at LEX, on the rapid increase in sustainable investing and the risks that may follow, one being the risk of greenwashing. Supervisors are prioritizing the fight against greenwashing and it can be expected that… Read more »
On the 25th of May „UTmessan“ will take place in Grand Hotel, Reykjavik. UTmessan, which is both a conference and an exhibition, is one of the largest IT events in Iceland. The tagline for this year’s conference is “Where Everything Connects”. During the event, Lára Herborg Ólafsdóttir, attorney and partner at LEX, will deliver a… Read more »
Morgunblaðið published today an article by Lára Herborg Ólafsdóttir, attorney and partner at LEX Law Offices, where she discusses the legal framework around cookies on websites, especially with regard to data protection. Recently, the Austrian and French data protection authorities ruled that the use of Google analytics violates the Privacy Policy.
Yesterday, Iceland Innovation week was launched in Gróska. Innovation Week is a festival celebrating and showcasing innovation. Yesterday there was an opportunity to listen to stories from various innovation companies and the Minister of Higher education, Science and Innovation, introduced her new ministry. LEX greatly supports innovation and had a pop-up office in Gróska.
Innherji, an Icelandic business news site, recently published an article by Kristinn Ingi Jónsson, lawyer and associate at LEX Law Offices, where he discusses the difficult task faced by listed companies to assess when information is deemed to be “of a precise nature” so that it constitutes inside information. The article highlights inter alia a… Read more »
Legal 500 the premium legal ranking agency has published their latest ranking for the Icelandic legal market. LEX law offices, one of Iceland’s full-service law firms, has yet again been ranked as a tier 1 firm in all the ranked categories by Legal 500. The categories ranked by Legal 500 are: Banking, finance and capital… Read more »
Eva Margrét Ævarsdóttir, attorney, who leads the sustainability and ESG consulting practice at LEX was interviewed in the Icelandic newspaper Fréttablaðið today. She talks about how many of the consequences of the conflict in Ukraine can be classified as sustainability risks, that are likely to affect the sustainability work of companies and investors. She pointed… Read more »
María Kristjánsdóttir has entered into an agreement with LEX to become a partner of G.H. Intellectual Property. LEX acquired G.H. Intellectual Property in 2018 and since then María has played a key role in the company’s operations which has been very successful. Since the beginning of 2021, María has been the company’s Managing Director. GH… Read more »
At the Annual General Meeting of LEX, which was held on 18 March 2022 a new board of LEX was elected. Guðmundur Ingvi Sigurðsson, who has been a member of the board of LEX since 2014, and chairman since 2019 decided not to run for a continued board member seat. In his place Óskar Sigurðsson… Read more »
On the 18th of March, the District Court of Reykjavik dismissed the cases of the State Alcohol and Tobacco Company (ÁTVR) against Sante ehf., Santewines SAS and Arnar Sigurðsson ÁTVR demanded that the defendants would cease to participate in the retail sale of alcohol online and that they would be held liable for damages that… Read more »
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