Skip to content

Þórarinn Þorgeirsson

Attorney • Specialist

Þórarinn is an attorney admitted to practise before the District Courts. Þórarinn has an extensive experience in the various fields of legal practice in the financial and business sector in Iceland and abroad, both in the private and public sector.

Þórarinn deals i.a. with tasks in the field of banking and capital markets, corporate law, corporate and project finance, mergers and acquisitions and insolvency and financial restructuring. Þórarinn has sat on the board of directors in companies and has also participated in drafting laws and regulations in the financial sector. Þórarinn has been deemed fit and proper by the Icelandic FSA to hold a seat on the board of directors of a commercial bank. Prior to taking up law praxis Þórarinn was a Managing Director at Kaupthing´s legal department where he was i.a responsible for legal work in the restructuring of Kaupthing through composition and subsequently the dual listing of Arion bank, Kaupthing´s subsidiary, on the OMX exchanges in Reykjavík and Stockholm.

    • District Courts
    • LEX2026-
    • Juris law firm2021-2026
    • Drangi Law firm2019-2021
    • Kaupthing´s legal department, managing director 2013-2019
    • Kaupthing´s legal department, associate managing director 2011-2013
    • Kaupthing´s legal department, senior director2009-2011
    • Investum, head of legal
    • Askar Capital Investment Bank, head of legal, real estate investment advisory division2007-2008
    • LEX2006-2007
    • Financial Supervisory Authority 2002-2006
    • Icelandic Parliament (Alþingi), standing committee department2000-2002
    • District Court Attorney2003
    • University of Iceland, cand. jur.2000
    • Arion bank, deputy director on the board 2017-2019
    • Kaupthing bank, asset committee member2013-2019
    • Deemed fit and proper by the Icelandic FSA to hold a seat on the board of directors of a commercial bank (Arion)2017