Jóhann Tómas Sigurðsson

Mr. Sigurðsson handles a wide range of mandates, from corporate and finance transactions to joint ventures and contractual matters and focuses on demanding transactions in the fields of public and private M&A, private equity and capital markets, as well as FDI to Iceland. MR. Sigurðsson works in Corporate/M&A, Private equity, Venture Capital, Finance, Capital Markets, IT and Start ups. Mr. Sigurðsson has also provided advice to foreign investors with regards to FDI to Iceland.

Mr. Sigurðsson has over 15-year experience within the financial industry, first as the General Counsel and Compliance Officer of Icebank and then as General Counsel and Compliance Officer at MP bank hf. (now Kvika bank hf.). Moreover, Mr. Sigurðsson also worked from 2011 to 2014 as Head of Corporate Development at MP bank, leading mergers, acquisitions, disposals, funding and joint ventures for the bank.

Mr. Sigurðsson has served as board member for a number of Icelandic and international companies.

In 2020 Mr. Sigurðsson was appointed as a deputy member to the Insurance Complaints Committee by the Consumer´s Association in Iceland and in 2022 Mr. Sigurðsson was re-appointed as a member in the Complaints Committee on Transactions with Financial Firms, having been on the Committee during his work within the financial industry.

Furthermore, in 2021, Sigurðsson was nominated to the board of the Travel Insurance Guarantee Fund, new insolvency protection fund established by the government, for refund in the event of insolvency by a travel organizer (see EU Directive 2015/2302).

Icelandic Bar Association and New York State Bar Association

New York University Shool of Law

LLM in Corporate Law

2002 - 2003

University of Iceland

Candidati juris

1994 - 1999

Universicy of Iceland

Official Investment Management Certificate

2000 - 2001

Icelandic Lawyer of the year

Benchmark Litigation

2019