WH Partners

Corporate and M&A, Banking and Finance, Commercial, Capital Markets, Competition & Antitrust, Insolvency & Restructuring, Intellectual Property

Managing Associate

Rachel is a managing associate in WH Partners’ Corporate/Commercial team. She is a transactional lawyer, advising on a range of public and private M&A and a range of financing transactions, including debt capital markets issuances, complex syndicated loan facilities and venture capital fundraises. She also advises on competition law aspects of M&A transactions, including FDI. Rachel started her career in 2014 as a trainee lawyer in the WH team. She focuses her practice on all kinds of corporate transactions and corporate financing matters, ranging from structuring early-stage seed and venture capital transactions through to exits via private or public M&A, joint ventures and IPOs. She has acted for private and public companies listed in Malta and on other regulated markets.

In addition, she represents businesses before the Maltese Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority, coordinates merger control filings, and has advised on consumer and product safety law, including food safety regulations.  

English, Maltese

Rachel was admitted to the Roll of Solicitors of England and Wales in 2019. She is also Deputy Chair of the Germany-Malta Business Council, operating under the auspices of the Malta Chamber of Commerce.

Rachel graduated from the University of Cambridge with the degree of Master of Corporate Law (MCL) with First Class Honours in 2017, where she is a member of Pembroke College.

She holds an LL.D and an LL.B from the University of Malta. During her studies, Rachel also spent time at the University of Bologna in Italy furthering her legal studies.