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Landslog – Law Offices

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Landslog – Law Offices' team is regularly active in a broad range of high-profile cases, with significant experience before both the Appeals Court and the Supreme Court. Areas covered by the group include banking, real estate, IP, and administrative claims. Grímur Sigurðsson co-leads the department alongside Supreme Court attorney Áslaug Árnadóttir and Viðar Lúðvíksson, whose practice includes financial disputes and insurance law. Jón Gunnar Ásbjörnsson is also a key name within the team.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘The team consists of some of Iceland's finest lawyers. They provide a professional legal service and collaboration that has always been exceptional.’

  • ‘We have worked with the firm Landslog for some years now and have always been very satisfied. Viðar Lúðvíksson has been the lawyer who has taken care of our legal issues. He has very considerate and excellent manners, yet he is a very determined and assertive litigator. His professional work both in regard to preparation and performance have been in a class of their own.’

  • ‘I have only worked with partner Jón Gunnar Ásbjörnsson, but he has an excellent grasp of English, understands the commercialities of our case and is prompt in responding. He is tenacious and a good advocate.’

  • 'Very professional.'

  • 'Very experienced, very broad legal knowledge and skills.'

Key clients

  • Central Bank of Iceland
  • Hagar hf.
  • Isavia (Icelandic Airport and Air Traffic Management)
  • University of Iceland Lottery
  • Islandsbanki
  • Icelandic Prime Contractors
  • Bru II Island

Work highlights

  • Representing an organisation of mackerel fisheries in Iceland, in court proceedings against the Icelandic state, aiming to overturn the state's allocation of mackerel quota.
  • Leading a class action on behalf of a group of shareholders in the collapsed bank Landsbanki, against one of the bank’s former owners, for allegedly deceiving and withholding information from the bank’s shareholders.
  • Representing Isavia in its dispute with Air Lease Corporation USA, regarding Isavia’s impounding of ALC’s Airbus A320 aircraft at Keflavík international airport.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Grímur Sigurðsson, Áslaug Árnadóttir, Viðar Lúðvíksson

Other key lawyers

Jóhannes Sveinsson, Jón Gunnar Ásbjörnsson