Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Jan Rossi
Published on January 17, 2018
Tags: Bareboat charter registration, Merchant Shipping Act, Ship Registration
Practices:
Ship Registration
We would like to highlight a useful feature of Maltese shipping law that is often overlooked by operators of Maltese ships. Bareboat charter registration (dual registration) has been a common feature of the shipping industry as it has developed in the last 10 years or so. Dual registration takes place for various commercial and operational reasons.
Authors:
Anthony Cremona
Published on December 28, 2017
Tags: Trusts and Trustees Act
Practices:
Trusts & Foundations
After a long wait and after fruitful discussions held by STEP Malta with the MFSA, Parliament has finally enacted Act XXXI of 2017 on the 22nd December, 2017 which, amongst various financial services laws, also amends the Trusts and Trustees Act (Cap. 331 of the Laws of Malta; the “TTA”).
Authors:
Anthony Cremona, Abigail Galea
Published on December 22, 2017
Tags: Foundations, Register of Beneficial Owners – Foundations
Practices:
Trusts & Foundations
The notorious CRB Regulations for Foundations, Trusts, Associations and Companies have been published as subsidiary legislation on the 20 December, 2017.
Authors:
Antoine G. Cremona, Clement Mifsud-Bonnici, Calvin Calleja
Published on December 5, 2017
Tags: Cross-Border Litigation - Europe, EU Private International Law
Practices:
Litigation, Arbitration & ADR
Authors:
Beppe Degiorgio
Published on November 23, 2017
Tags: Financial Services, LIBOR
Practices:
Financial Markets Regulation
The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) has been used as a standard reference for the pricing of loans, derivatives and other contracts that have a floating rate for the past three decades, making it a keystone of the world’s financial markets; at its peak it was used to price $350 trillion of financial products, from mortgages to derivatives.
Authors:
Nicholas Curmi
Published on November 21, 2017
Tags: maritime, securitisation
Practices:
Ship Finance & Mortgages, Structured Finance & Securitisation
The shipping sector appears to be slowly emerging from its negative cycle, with Moody’s changing its outlook on the global shipping industry to stable earlier this year, driven primarily by positive developments in the dry bulk and container ship market segments.
Authors:
Jens Buedinger, James Debono
Published on October 27, 2017
Tags: Blockchain, Smart Contracts
Practices:
E-Money & Payment Services, General Commercial & Contract Law, Intellectual Property & Telecoms, Media & Technology
Currently blockchain technologies are disrupting and revolutionizing various industries on a global level through the use of immutable public ledgers spread over a distributed network. The blockchain’s main disruptive element in today’s commercial and economic ecosystem is its ability to eliminate the (often taken for granted) necessity to trust intermediaries to certify a transaction.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Jan Rossi
Published on September 29, 2017
Tags: Malta flag, Shipping, superyachts, yachts
Practices:
Ship Registration, Yacht & Superyacht Registration
Malta is rapidly becoming a flag of choice for yacht and superyacht owners. There are now over 500 superyachts greater than 24 metres in length flying the Malta flag, with the number of registered yachts increasing profoundly when yachts smaller than 24 metres in length are taken into consideration.
