The global nature of many corporate transactions involving subsidiaries and affiliates located all around the world has spurred the need for the enactment of Regulation (EU) 2019/452 (the "Regulation").

Ensuring that Malta remains a leader in the pack when it comes to the Digital Economy takes more than just developing attractive corporate and tax related incentives or establishing the right structures to produce sufficient human capital that investors opting for Malta would require.

With the publishing of Bill No.249 (‘Bill') which proposes amendments to Chapter 527 of the Laws of Malta seeking to transpose the EU Directive (‘Directive') on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law...

In a recent judgment, the Maltese Court rejected a foreign liquidator’s application to have a precautionary warrant of arrest lifted on the basis of the EC Regulation 1346/2000 on Insolvency Proceedings.

In this year’s Budget Speech, delivered on 9th November 2009, the Minister of Finance announced a number of fiscal measures aiming at incentivising investment and businesses, the main thrust of which was the promotion of investment, R&D and environmental protection, on the one hand, and the tightening of anti-abuse provisions aimed at attacking certain aggressive tax planning schemes, compliance and a process of consolidation of the Inland Revenue, VAT and Customs Departments on the other hand.

The trust protector is a person who may play one or more of several roles. It may be policing the trusteeship or enforcing the trusts as if he were a sole beneficiary.

In Malta at the end of 2009, we had some 48,520 companies and partnerships registered with the Registry of Companies.

Regulation (EU) 2022/2560, referred to as the Foreign Subsidies Regulation ("FSR"), entered into force on 12 July 2023. The FSR has created a new competition regime addressing...

The "register of members" is a statutory register which Maltese companies are obliged to keep, but which is often times underestimated – most likely because there is no statutory obligation...

The Industrial Tribunal (‘Tribunal') in a most recent judgment in the names of Miriam Garcia Medina vs Plan 17 Limited came to the conclusion that management did not have the right to know or dictate what employees did on their days off.

By way of general background, the right to a fair hearing is entrenched in the Laws of Malta by means of the Constitution and the European Convention Act (Chapter 319) which transposes the European Convention on Human Rights.

When Parents part ways, the principal concerns that arise are how each party will retain contact with their children, and continue to offer mutual support in their education, health and financial exigences.

This month will be remembered in history as the month where a particle with many similarities to a Higgs Boson was discovered.

Every single day we find novel ways in which we can make use of technology in our daily lives.

On Monday the 27th of April, the Malta Gaming Authority (the ‘MGA') through their website, notified stakeholders about amendments which had been made to the Gaming Premises Directive (the ‘Directive').

Regulation [EU] 2016/679 or as it is otherwise known, the General Data Protection Regulation (or simply the ‘GDPR'), came...

Maria DeBono, Associate in the Corporate & Commercial Department, sheds light on the utility of Article 300A of the Companies Act...

Judicial sales are realities which occur when ship owners fail to pay their creditors. Unpaid creditors can range from shipbuilders and financiers, to ship repairers, suppliers of provisions

The Electricity Connection and Supply Regulations (S.L. 545.41 – the "Regulations"), which came into force on October 29, 2024, mark a significant development in Malta's energy distribution legal framework

The European Commission presented its proposal for an Entry/Exit System in April 2016, which proposal resulted in the coming into force of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 (the "EES Regulation") in December 2017.