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Maltese law tries to ensure that once obligations are contracted they are executed and performed. In doing so, the law provides for various measures on how a creditor...

In the case Beer House Ltd vs The General Soft Drinks Company Ltd (C3774) & GSD Marketing Limited, the Hon. Madame Justice Audrey Demicoli delved into and examined the commercial relationship between the Claimant, the foreign company Swinkels Family Brewers ("SFB"), Defendant company and/or GSDM.

Our survey shows that the N100 companies have continued to steadily increase their reporting rates with each global survey. Ten years ago, 64 percent of N100 companies reported.

Bill 136, the Companies Act (Amendment) Bill, published on the 30th June 2025, proposes significant amendments to the regulation of companies.

On the 11th of July 2025, Act XVII of 2025 was enacted which amended several provisions of the Maltese Companies Act. One of the most significant amendments is the addition of a new simplified liquidation procedure with the introduction of Article 214A.

Companies registering on the island will no longer have to convert into a non-shipping company — and then back again.

Malta has introduced significant amendments to its beneficial ownership framework through Legal Notice 184 of 2026, which came into force on 10 July 2026. The reform aims to improve the accuracy, transparency and reliability of beneficial ownership information, whilst also introducing practical simplifications for certain companies with straightforward ownership structures.

As much as it is exciting to decide to be your own boss, germinate your very own ideas and start a business, startups typically face a myriad of challenges to get their ventures up and running.

Companies are nothing but the product of a legal fiction, in that they only possess the ability to do business and enter into contractual arrangements because the law grants them the ‘personality' to do so.

As part of Malta's ongoing efforts to modernise its corporate regulatory framework, the 2025 amendments to the Companies Act (Chapter 386 of the Laws of Malta)...

In ‘Ruth Magro v. Ir-Registratur tal-Kumpanniji' decided by the Court of Appeal on the 25th of February 2025, the Court of Appeal held that the guarantee of peaceful possession granted by the seller to the buyer...

By virtue of Legal Notice 248 of 2020, new regulations were issued under the Companies Act entitled Companies Act (Shipping and Aviation Cell Companies) Regulations (the "Regulations").

The recently set up ESG Alliance will in the coming weeks boost its original membership of 13 by several others, according to David Xuereb, one of the key people supporting the organisation set up in July 2022.

In Richard Mark Verby (passaport Ingliż numru [omissis] kif debitament rappresentat minn Roberta Giorgio (K.I. nru [omissis]) vs Ir-Reġistratur tal-Kumpanniji, decided by Mr. Justice Ian Spiteri Bailey...

In Richard Mark Verby (passaport Ingliż numru [omissis] kif debitament rappresentat minn Roberta Giorgio (K.I. nru [omissis]) vs Ir-Reġistratur tal-Kumpanniji...

In its judgement delivered on the 18 March 2021 in the names of Brace Adonis v Braai Masters Co Ltd et, the First Hall of the Civil Court, presided over by Mr Justice Joseph Zammit McKeon...

A legal analysis exploring environmental rights and criminal accountability will be published in id-Dritt (GħSL), Edition XXXVI (2026).

In July 2022 the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (the ‘FIAU') issued a guidance note to provide further guidance on obtaining source of wealth information related to parties other than the customer.