Authors:
GANADO Advocates
Published on September 12, 2014
Tags: Maltese securitisation vehicles, securitisation
Practices:
Structured Finance & Securitisation
The Malta Financial Services Authority (‘MFSA’) published draft securitisation cell company (‘SCC’) regulations for consultation on 4 September 2014. We outline the key features of the draft regulations.
Authors:
Annalise Papa, Mark Caruana Scicluna
Published on September 2, 2014
Tags: Trading Licences Act
Practices:
Corporate, General Commercial & Contract Law
Although falling outside the remit of regulatory regimes such as Banking, Insurance and Investments Services, your business activities in Malta will still most likely be caught by the Trading Licences regime.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Annalise Papa
Published on August 29, 2014
Tags: Commercial Code, Commercial Transactions, Directive 2000/35/EC, Late Payments
Practices:
Corporate, General Commercial & Contract Law, Litigation, Arbitration & ADR
Sub Title IA of the Commercial Code (Chapter 13 of the Laws of Malta) deals with Late Payments in Commercial Transactions and was originally introduced to transpose the provisions of Directive 2000/35/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 June 2000 on combating late payment in commercial transactions.
Authors:
Julienne Bencini
Published on August 22, 2014
Tags: health and safety at work
Practices:
Employment & Industrial Relations
The European Commission has welcomed the ‘Healthy Workplaces Manage Stress’ two year Europe-wide campaign which was launched on the 7th of April 2014 by the European Agency for Health and Safety at Work (EU-OHSA).
Authors:
Julienne Bencini
Published on August 20, 2014
Tags: health and safety, health and safety at work
Practices:
Employment & Industrial Relations, Litigation, Arbitration & ADR
According to Malta’s statistical office (the NSO), administrative records indicate that 820 persons had a non-fatal accident during the course of their work during the second quarter of 2014, a decrease of 4.5 per cent when compared to the corresponding quarter of the previous year. No fatal accidents have been reported to date.
Authors:
Max Ganado, Richard Ambery, Matthew Mizzi
Published on August 8, 2014
Tags: AIFMD, Maltese securitisation vehicles, securitisation
Practices:
Derivatives, Investment Services Regulation, Structured Finance & Securitisation
If the term “securitisation special purpose entity” in the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) were to be applied narrowly, then various securitisation transactions, including risk securitisations or possibly even whole business securitisations, would possibly fall within the scope of the AIFMD. Malta’s securitisation law provides clarity.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Annalise Papa
Published on August 5, 2014
Tags: Environment
Practices:
Environment & Planning
Over the last decade or so, and particularly post Malta’s EU membership, Maltese Environmental law has undergone a quantum leap from a largely unregulated area of law (1) to a substantially comprehensive and surely more sophisticated network of primary and subsidiary legislation.
Authors:
Matthew Bianchi, Matthew Brincat, Elaine Magri, Stephanie Cassar, Stephanie Zarb Adami, Philip Mifsud
Published on July 31, 2014
Tags: EIOPA, Insurance, Reinsurance, Solvency II
Practices:
Insurance & Reinsurance Corporate, Insurance & Reinsurance Regulation
The latest issue of Insurance and Private Pension Law Newsletter has just been published.
Authors:
Conrad Portanier, Leonard Bonello, Lorraine Poole, Beppe Sammut
Published on July 17, 2014
Practices:
Banking Regulatory, Derivatives, E-Money & Payment Services, Financial Markets Regulation
The fourth issue of the Banking & Financial Institutions Newsletter published by the Banking and Finance team at GANADO Advocates is available for download from the link below.
Authors:
Adrian M. Gabarretta, Nikolai Muscat Farrugia
Published on June 25, 2014
Tags: Compant Redomiciliation, Company Continuation, redomiciliation
Practices:
Corporate, Corporate Services
An increasing number of jurisdictions allow for the continuation or re-domiciliation of corporate entities. Continuation entails the transfer of a corporate entity’s seat of incorporation or registration from one jurisdiction to another, thus ensuring the continuing corporate existence of the migrating entity.