Óttar Pálsson joins LOGOS Legal Services as a partner

Óttar Pálsson, Supreme Court Attorney, has joined LOGOS Legal Services as a partner. Ottar will advise companies and investors on M&A and capital markets related transactions, banking and financial restructurings, in addition to becoming engaged in commercial litigation.

Ottar served as the Chief Executive Officer of ALMC hf. (previously Straumur Burdaras Investment bank hf.) from March 2009 up until the end of 2010, and lead the bank´s operational and financial restructuring. Ottar will serve on the Board of ALMC hf. in conjunction with the law practice.

Ottar was the General Counsel of Straumur Burdaras Investment bank hf., from September 2006 to March 2009. Before that time he worked at Adalsteinsson and Partners and LOGOS Legal Services, as a partner from 2002-2006.

Ottar graduated from the University of Iceland Faculty of Law in 1997, he studied at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), Faculty of Law, in 1996 and 1997, and finished his Master of Laws (LL.M) in Company, Banking and Securities Law from University College London, in November 2001. Ottar became a Supreme Court Attorney in 2006.