Adalsteinn Johannsson Email & Phone Number

Reykjavík, Capital Region, Iceland

Honorary Consul of Ukraine in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Iceland

Founder, Chairman & Main Owner of GeoSalmo (www.geosalmo.com), which is in constructing a state of the art 24,000-ton land-based salmon farming facility in Ölfus, near Þorlákshöfn, Iceland.

Founder, main owner and Chairman of the Board of Bull Hill Capital - a privately owned family office investment firm.

Europe

Partner at Bryan, Garnier & Co focusing on international M&A in the tech space.

Northern Europe & Us

Founder & main owner of Beringer Finance leading the buildup and development of the company from its inception in 2014 until its merger with French investment bank Bryan Garnier in 2020.

Nordics

Specializing in corporate finance advisory as a partner with ScandCap AB in Stockholm helping investors and companies acquiring, merging, divesting, raising capital, reorganizing and advising on strategic development, both within Sweden and across Northern Europe.

Iceland

Private corporate finance advisory, advising on corporate restructuring after the collapse of the Icelandic economy. I was as well actively engaged in my own ventures, including starting and building up companies in tourism and retail.In addition I was engaged in MBA studies in Reykjavik University, graduated in spring 2012.

Nordics, Baltics & Cee Countries

Became MD Investment Banking at Icebank hf. in the start of 2008 when Icebank´s acquisition of Behrens was finalized. The bank´s strategy in Investment Banking was aggressive expansion in the Nordics and Central and Eastern Europe with specific focus on the Baltic and Balkan regions building up expertise in cross-border transaction between Northern and Eastern Europe. Under my management, Icebank made two acquisitions of corporate finance companies in Norway and Sweden in 2008 which grew my team in Investment Banking to approx. 40 people located in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Latvia and Lithuania. After the collapse of the Icelandic banking system in October 2008 (approx. 9 months after I started in Icebank) my focus changed into keeping the bank alive and negotiating with its creditors as the bank became technically bankrupt on the back of the fall of the three largest banks in Iceland. I supervised communication and negotiations with the bank´s creditors until the Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority decided to appoint a resolution committee for Icebank to move its foreign payment service systems and deposits from the Icelandic savings banks away from the bank by end of April 2009 to protect the infrastructure therein and keep the savings banks system in Iceland operating.As well as working on the bank´s restructuring I was involved in creditor negotiations and debt restructuring of several companies after the bank collapse in Iceland.

Nordics, Baltics & Cee Countries

Co-founded Behrens Corporate Finance company in summer 2003 specializing in corporate finance advisory in Iceland at first but soon developed into directing Icelandic and Nordic clients to invest in the Baltic countries. Set up offices in Riga, Latvia (2005) and Vilnius, Lithuania (2006) to build Behrens´s position in the market as the leading firm in bringing foreign investors to those countries. Lead over 25 deals since Behrens´s foundation in 2003 - advised and participated in sell and buy side mandates as well as capital raising in Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Serbia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Romania in sectors such as technology, software development (mobile, internet, legacy), aviation, retail, food production, transport, industrial production, building materials retail and production, oil trading and transport, coffee production and retail as well as financial services and insurance.

Nordics

After ISF´s acquisition of the IT portfolio of the bank mentioned below, I became the funds Chief Investment Officer responsible for sourcing, evaluating and negotiating transactions as well as supervising and developing the investments through active board participation. During my stay in the fund we acquired 7 investment companies and IT portfolios with over 50 companies leading the consolidation of Iceland´s small to mid-size IT company ownership to the fund. After cleaning up and picking out the gems after the burst of the “bubble” in 2001 the fund was acquired by Straumur Investment bank in 2003 after which myself and the CEO of the fund decided to start our own company, Behrens Corporate Finance together.

Nordics

Recruited during my first year at Reykjavik University to work full time in Corporate Finance for Bunadarbanki Islands besides my studies. Participated in numerous transactions, including fund raising, IPO´s, debt issues, mergers and private equity investments (mostly IT) in the early days of the Icelandic stock market. Amongst the most noteworthy advisory roles was in the sale of the Icelandic company Tölvuþekking hf. (Computer Knowledge Inc.) to Eastman Kodak, US - my first international M&A deal.

Executive Education Program

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), International Program

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), International Business

Honors, Business & Economics