About

Oskar Arndt is a ��creative’ lawyer that ‘maintains a high level of integrity and quality’ in his work for iZettle, an emerging payment services provider. After five years at Bird & Bird, Arndt joined iZettle in 2013 setting up a legal department of two located in Stockholm and Sao Paulo, as well as modifying how the company manages its legal and business affairs, including its due process guidance, contract and risk management. This has reduced iZettle’s costly over-reliance on outside counsel by bringing essential work in-house. To demonstrate the strength of the team, Arndt successfully managed a Series C financing process from start to close with very little use of external counsel. Like many other lawyers, Arndt feels external law firms should spend more time understanding the business of their clients in order ‘to deliver relevant and useful advice’.