Corporate/Commercial

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Provided by Landslög Law Offices

• Commercial, Corporate M&A

Vidar Ludviksson advised FAST-1 slhf. on the sale of real-estate companies with an enterprise value of EUR 185,000,000, the single largest real-estate transaction in Iceland.

Vidar advised Vodafone Iceland on the purchase of assets and operations (including content agreements with foreign providers) from 365 midlar hf. - the largest telecom and broadcasting asset purchase transaction ever in Iceland.

Vidar and Jona Bjork Helgadottir advised Hagar hf. (Iceland’s largest retailer) on the purchase of the oil company Oliuverzlun Islands – a landmark in M&A deals in Iceland.

• Data protection, IT law. Landslog is the leading Icelandic law firm on issues pertaining to processing of personal data and the EU Data Protection Directive.

Landslog specialise in the field of IT related legal issues, IP, telecom, software procurement contracts, electronic forensics, etc., where few, if any, other law firms in Iceland have any presence. Hordur Helgason, partner at Landslog (Commissioner of the Icelandic Data Protection Authority 2013-2014) is probably the leading expert in Iceland on data protection.

• EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance efforts of one of Iceland’s three major banks.

• Guides many of the country’s largest companies and governmental institutions in their ongoing GDPR compliance efforts.

• Secures Landslög as the No. 1 leading law firm in Iceland providing advice on GDPR compliance, which entered into force in 2018.