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Malta's competitive tax system, extensive network of Double Taxation Agreements, fast incorporation, and its English-speaking educated workforce make it an increasingly popular business vehicle for companies from all over the world to register a company in Malta.

In a modern world, the office of the company secretary has no one meaning and covers a multitude of tasks and responsibilities.

In 2015, the MFSA conducted a Thematic Review Questionnaire amongst 60 authorised trust companies (‘authorised persons'), which represent approximately half of the licence holders authorised in terms of the Trusts and Trustees Act.

A number of amendments to the Maltese Companies Act were enacted by means of Act XVIII of 2025 on 11 July, 2025. This article analyses some amendments which have significant...

The Malta Financial Services Authority has issued a Corporate Governance Manual for Directors of Investment Companies and Collective Investment Schemes.

The effects of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, have so far proved to be far-reaching on multiple levels on a global scale and, accordingly, it comes as no surprise that the local capital markets have not been spared from the effects of the outbreak.

Directive (EU) 2022/2381, adopted on November 23rd 2022, and often referred to as the Women on Boards Directive, sets out measurers to improve gender balance among directors of listed companies and related measures...

In OMNIDEA AB soċjetà Svediża (bin-numru ta' reġistrazzjoni 556586-8386) bħala kreditriċi tas-soċjetà Pegion Operations Limited (C 54638) vs Pegion Operations Limited (C 54638)...

The rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus, has made social distancing - whether it is mandated or strongly advised by governments - somewhat of a rule to live-by. Businesses are naturally feeling the deleterious economic impact...

Initial notions of ESG include ideas such as diversity, sustainability and ethical-based decisions being undertaken by a company.

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 EU, Corporate Governance, and Company Directors who are fit for purpose.

On the 17 October 2025, the First Hall Civil Court (the "Court"), presided by Mr. Justice Mark Simiana delivered judgment in the names James Cassar & Marcelle Mangion nee Cassar...

It comes as no surprise that internal governance was one of the key topics for supervisory attention identified by the European Banking Authority ("EBA") in its 2019 convergence plan.

Company Service Providers can be entities or individuals providing an array of corporate services, including directorship services.

In the course of 2015, the Conduct Supervisory Unit ("CSU") within the MFSA carried out a desk-based compliance review of roughly 50% of the authorised trustees and fiduciaries.

This Article provides a general overview of the manner in which Maltese law regulates what is commonly known as a Share Buy-Back in the context of the Capital Maintenance Doctrine, with respect to private limited liability companies, incorporated in terms of the Companies Act 1995 (Chapter 386 of the Laws of Malta) (the “CA”).