Þórarinn Þorgeirsson

Þórarinn Þorgeirsson
Þórarinn Þorgeirsson

Consultant

Attorney at Law

Email thorarinn@juris.is

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 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 various 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 joining Drangi 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. Þórarinn has worked at Juris since 2021.

Education

  • Deemed fit and proper by the Icelandic FSA to hold a seat on the board of directors of a commercial bank 2017 (Arion)

  • District Court Attorney 2003

  • University of Iceland, cand. jur. 2000

Resume

  • Juris 2021-present

  • Drangi Law firm from 2019-2021

  • Deputy Director on the board of Arion bank hf. 2017 - 2019

  • Kaupthing  2009 - 2019 (Res Com ´09 -´11, WuC ´12 -´16, Kaupþing ehf. ´16 -´19)

    • 2013 - 2019 Managing Director at Kaupthing´s Legal Department.

    • 2013 - 2019 Member of Kaupthing´s Asset Committee

    • 2011- 2013 Associate Managing Director at Kaupthing´s Legal Department

    • 2009 - 2011 Senior Director at Kaupthing´s Legal Department 

  • Investum ehf. 2008 - 2009 – Head of Legal

  • Askar Capital Investment Bank 2007-2008 Head of Legal, Real Estate Investment Advisory division

  • Lex law offices 2006 - 2007

  • Financial Supervisory Authority 2002 - 2006

  • Standing Committee Department of the Icelandic Parliament (Alþingi) 2000 – 2002

Juris slf.

Borgartún 26,

105 Reykjavík

Phone: + 354 580 4400

Kt. 580411-0610

vsk. nr. 107921