Authors:
André Zerafa
Published on June 23, 2016
Tags: Investment Funds
Practices:
Investment Funds
This article was published in Corporate INTL (June 2016).
Authors:
André Zerafa
Published on June 21, 2016
Tags: Investment Funds, real estate
Practices:
Investment Funds, Real Estate
MondoAlternative spoke with Andre Zerafa, Partner at GANADO Advocates, about the new regulations that are changing the international real estate funds sector and the peculiarities of the Maltese jurisdiction.
Authors:
Antoine G. Cremona, Anselmo Mifsud-Bonnici
Published on May 25, 2016
Tags: Arbitration
Practices:
Litigation, Arbitration & ADR
The Malta Chapter in the latest edition of this international series has been authored by Antoine G. Cremona and Anselmo Mifsud Bonnici.
Authors:
GANADO Advocates
Published on May 25, 2016
Tags: company secretary, Corporate Governance, Corporate Services
Practices:
Corporate Governance, Corporate Services
The role of the company secretary should not be looked at as merely fulfilling administrative secretarial duties. Despite the name, the role is not a clerical or secretarial one in the usual sense. The company secretary keeps board members informed of their legal responsibilities. It is true that a company secretary does not take part in the management of the company as this is the responsibility of the Directors, but nowadays the role of company secretary is being increasingly considered as that of a special advisor to the board.
Authors:
James Farrugia, David Borg-Carbott
Published on May 4, 2016
Tags: hedge funds
Practices:
Fund Custody, Investment Funds
James Farrugia and David Borg-Carbott have contributed to this publication with a chapter entitled Malta Hedge Funds.
Authors:
Ruth Agius
Published on April 22, 2016
Tags: Compliance Officers, Compliance Requirements
Practices:
Corporate, Corporate Services
Reputation management is not a prerogative of large institutions and must be seen as an important matter by small- and medium- sized companies as well.
Authors:
Leonard Bonello, James Debono
Published on April 8, 2016
Tags: financial industry, Fintech, investment services
Practices:
Banking Regulatory, E-Money & Payment Services, Financial Markets Regulation, Investment Services Regulation
Relatively unheard of before the beginning of this decade, the word “fintech” (financial technology) has swiftly established its place in everyday language and made it into the Oxford Dictionary. In fact, Bloomberg acknowledged that this term was everybody’s buzzword during the World Economic Forum held in Davos in January.
Authors:
Matthew Xerri, George Bugeja
Published on April 7, 2016
Tags: Aircraft Finance, Aircraft Registration, Aviation, Cape Town Convention
Practices:
Aircraft Finance, Aircraft Registration
This Q&A provides a high level overview of key practical issues including financing options for purchasing aircrafts; registration and deregistration requirements; transfer of title; security, including aircraft mortgages; transfer of security; enforcement of security and repossession; and application of the Cape Town Convention.
Authors:
Louis Cassar Pullicino, Annalise Papa, Paul Micallef Grimaud, Stephen Attard, Matthew Brincat, Antoine G. Cremona, Christine Cassar Naudi, Julian Caruana, Lara Pace, Nikolai Muscat Farrugia, Philip Formosa, Philip Mifsud, Sylvann Aquilina Zahra
Published on April 6, 2016
Tags: Business Vehicles, Competition, Corporate Finance, Data Protection, Employment, Foreign Investment, intellectual property, M&A, Product Liability, Product Safety, Tax
Practices:
Competition, Corporate, Corporate Finance, Data Protection & Privacy, E-Money & Payment Services, Employment & Industrial Relations, General Commercial & Contract Law, Intellectual Property & Telecoms, Media & Technology, Mergers & Acquisitions, Taxation, Trademark Registration
The Q&A guide to doing business in Malta gives an overview of key recent developments affecting doing business in Malta as well as an introduction to the legal system; foreign investment, including restrictions, currency regulations and incentives; and business vehicles and their relevant restrictions and liabilities.
Authors:
Mario Zerafa
Published on April 4, 2016
Tags: AIFMD, Investment Funds, MFSA, Notified Alternative Investor Funds
On the 11th February 2016, the Malta Financial Services Authority (the “MFSA”) announced the launch of a new framework to be referred to as the Notified Alternative Investment Funds regime (the “Notified AIFs”). This new regime is expected to solve time to market issues being faced by a number of AIFMs wishing to launch AIFs and market them to investors in a tight time frame to meet market opportunities.