Lawyers in Malta
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Mario Zerafa
Mario Zerafa is a Senior Associate within Ganado Advocates’ investment services and funds team. Mario has a wide range of experience in setting up, structuring and licensing of PIFs, UCITS, AIFs and NAIFs as well as investment services licence holders such as AIFMs, UCITS management companies, and MIFID firms. On an ongoing basis, he advises clients on their ongoing obligations in terms of the applicable legal and regulatory framework. As part of the ongoing support to clients, Mario also assists with various corporate matters including the re-domiciliation of companies into or out of Malta, drafting of shareholders agreements and corporate governance matters. Mario also specialises in anti-financial crime-related matters within the financial services sector, concentrating particularly on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing, anti-bribery and corruption, and whistleblowing laws. On an ongoing basis, he advises clients on governance issues as well as on the establishment of an anti-financial crime framework in line with Maltese laws and regulations. Mario regularly represents clients before the Maltese authorities responsible for countering money laundering and funding of terrorism in Malta. Mario acts as examiner and lecturer at the University of Malta. He also lectures at a number of academic institutions on investment services and anti-financial crime related subjects.
Ganado Advocates
Marisa Vella
Partner
Camilleri Preziosi
Mark Caruana Scicluna
Mark Caruana Scicluna is a Senior Associate within Ganado Advocates’ investment services and funds team. He focuses on the structuring, licensing and ongoing servicing of collective investment schemes (including AIFs, NAIFs, UCITS funds and PIFs), asset management firms and other investment service providers. Mark also regularly assists in fintech and blockchain projects and general corporate and commercial matters. Mark previously worked in the corporate and insurance teams at Ganado Advocates. He has also delivered lectures at the University of Malta, the Malta Financial Services Authority, the Institute of Legal Studies, the Institute of Financial Services and other institutions.
Ganado Advocates
Mark Fenech
Consultant
Fenech & Fenech Advocates
Mark Galea Salomone
Managing Associate
WH Partners
Mark Refalo
Partner
Refalo Advocates
Martina Farrugia
Senior Associate
Fenech & Fenech Advocates
Martina Micallef
Senior Associate
Camilleri Preziosi
Mattea Pullicino
Senior Associate
Fenech & Fenech Advocates
Matteo Sansone
Legal trainee.
SALOMONE SANSONE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CONSULTANCY AND LAW OFFIC
Matthew Attard
Matthew Attard is a Partner within Ganado Advocates’ shipping team, with particular focus on shipping registration and sales/acquisitions of vessels, and the formation and support of shipping organisations and companies, regularly assisting clients in corporate matters and M&A transactions. Matthew also regularly assists major financial institutions and owners in the financing of vessels and related matters.
Ganado Advocates
Matthew Bianchi
Matthew Bianchi is Managing Partner of the firm and heads its insurance and pensions legal and regulatory practice. As a leading specialist in insurance, he regularly advises insurance and reinsurance companies, insurance managers, captive insurers, protected cell companies (PCCs) and insurance intermediaries established in Malta or offering their services there. He is also active in the field of insurance securitisation and assisted with the establishment of the first ILS structures. Matthew sits as the Secretary General of the Malta Association of Insurance Brokers and the Malta Insurance Managers Association and represents the Maltese insurance industry as a Governor on the Board of FinanceMalta. As head of the pensions team, Matthew was instrumental in the development of a market for pensions in Malta and now supports and advises most of the pension trustees. He was also a founder of the Association of Pension Administrators.
Ganado Advocates
Matthew Brincat
Matthew Brincat is a Partner at Ganado Advocates, whose practice mainly revolves around employment and pensions, areas of law he believes connect both the human and the corporate aspects of legislation. Matthew is a co-founder and the General Secretary of the Malta Association of Retirement Scheme Practitioners (MARSP), which brings together all the licensed pension administrators in Malta. He has also been heavily involved in the formation of Ganado Advocates’ employment and pensions law department and has gained valuable experience of Industrial Tribunal and OAFS proceedings. Matthew is a member of the Lex Mundi European employment practices group and delivers lectures at the Malta Employers Association on employment legislation. Matthew is also the co-author of the Malta volume of the Kluwer Encyclopaedia on labour law and the author of a number of articles in local and foreign magazines and journals in relation to both employment and pensions legislation.
Ganado Advocates
Matthew Cassar
Associate
Fenech & Fenech Advocates
Matthew Muscat
Senior Associates
Mamo TCV Advocates
Matthew Xerri
Matthew Xerri is a Partner within Ganado Advocates’ shipping and aviation team, with particular focus on ship and aviation finance, including the implementation of alternative financing methods. Matthew regularly assists financial institutions and leading banks in the perfection of security over yachts, commercial vessels and aircraft. Matthew also assists in the registration of international interests in the international registry as well as acts on behalf of various aircraft lessors in aircraft leasing transactions and structures, including the drafting of lease agreements. Matthew, together with the litigation team, also provides guidance on enforcement issues, including the arrest and/or re-possession of aircraft and vessels. Matthew also assisted the Malta Civil Aviation Directorate with the drafting of legislation in order to amend the Malta Aircraft Registration Act.
Ganado Advocates
Max Ganado
Max has been practicing law for close to 40 years. He started his career as a maritime lawyer dealing with all aspects of shipping, including ship finance. He became a Partner of the firm in 1986 and moved on to develop the Financial Services practices at Ganado Advocates. He has been heavily involved in the drafting of new legislation required for the development of Malta as a financial centre, including the revision of the law relating to trusts and the law on legal persons and foundations, as well as on netting, securitisation, DLT and aviation. Max has been delivering lectures on varied subjects for a number of years, having been actively involved in disseminating education to the Maltese legal professions and Maltese law students. He has published various articles and has acted as editor of a number of publications. Max was the firm’s Managing Partner for 6 years. In 2015, he moved into a Senior Partner position within the firm, taking over a mix of duties, some professional and others relating to strategy. Max retired in December 2020 and is now acting as a Consultant to the firm.
Ganado Advocates
Michael Borg Costanzi
Of Counsel
Mamo TCV Advocates
Michael Buhagiar
Senior Associate
Camilleri Preziosi
Michael Grech
Partner
GVZH Advocates
Michael Psaila
Partner
Mamo TCV Advocates
Mikiel Calleja
Partner
Mamo TCV Advocates
Monica Galea John
Partner
Fenech & Fenech Advocates
Nadia Cassar
Nadia Cassar is a Senior Associate within Ganado Advocates’ insurance team. Nadia regularly advises from both a legal and regulatory perspective and takes a leading role in projects relating to acquisitions, mergers, restructurings, financing and portfolio transfers.
Ganado Advocates