Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates
High Net Worth Guide 2023
Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates
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Managing Partner: Dr Jean-Philippe Chetcuti
Languages: English, Maltese, Italian, Russian, French, Spanish, German, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Turkish, Ukrainian, Arabic, Kazakh, Malay
With roots in Malta’s emergence as a prominent offshore financial centre, Chetcuti Cauchi started in the 1990s and has since established a solid name in the legal and financial services industry in Malta. Chetcuti Cauchi enjoys a highly international profile and operates out of offices in Malta’s capital city, Valletta.
Providing a full spectrum of in-house client-focused services, Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates advises high-net-worth individuals and their families, as well as both small and large corporations, with all their needs. The firm’s success in this area is notable as a result of its exponential growth and expansion across various emerging industries. Despite its growth, the firm is dedicated to providing personalised services to its clients and being the go-to advisory firm for individuals seeking a first-class service.
The firm serves as a trusted advisor to both personal and corporate end-clients as well as international law firms, tax advisors, accountants, private bankers and family offices worldwide.
Families and Wealth:
Families and wealth are at the core of Chetcuti Cauchi's practices helping international U/HNW families and their family offices structure family wealth and business interests in a sustainable legal and tax-efficient yet compliant manner. Chetcuti Cauchi helps design and operate family offices of any size, and helps navigate legal and tax matters in Malta and on an international level. The firm's senior partners have held senior, technical positions within and chaired the Maltese branch of STEP, the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners, since its foundation.
Residency and Citizenship:
Chetcuti Cauchi is at the forefront of Maltese Citizenship by Investment, having pioneered the practice in the first years of the Maltese Permanent Residence Programme and obtaining the first licence IIP 001 and representing the first approvals under the Maltese Individual Investor Programme in 2014. Lead by senior partners Dr Jean-Philippe Chetcuti and Dr Priscilla Mifsud Parker, the firm's immigration law practice specialises in residency by investment and citizenship by descent, by investment and by exceptional services to the Republic of Malta. Clients of this practice include investors, successful entrepreneurs and technology innovators, senior company excecutives of well-know multinational companies, as well as retirees.
Tax:
Tax has underpinned the firm's international practice with specialisation in tax residence and res non-dom tax planning, pre-immigration tax planning, the obtainment of special tax status and capped personal tax rates under special tax residence programmes. The tax practice extends to advising on and setting up SPVs in Malta for internaitonal property ownership, participations in foreign businesses, investment holding structures and image rights.
Chetcuti Cauchi’s tax practice covers all corporate and personal tax aspects, property taxation and value added tax, e-commerce taxation, energy tax, trusts and estate planning, taxation of investment funds and tax disputes.
Real Estate:
The firm’s property law practice, headed by partners Dr Charlene Mifsud and Dr Maria Chetcuti Cauchi advise on residential, commercial, mixed and industrial real estate purchase and leasing. It also provides consulting services on residential, tourism and industrial real estate development. The firm's partners are recognised for there valuable work representing private and institutional investors and family offices in property investment matters.
Yachts, Aircraft and Art:
Chetcuti Cauchi holds strong ties with surveyors, yacht management companies, financial institutions, insurance companies and banks which allow it to provide a one-stop-shop service from Malta. The main aim behind its art law team is to provide the artistic and creative industry with practical legal advice and assistance.
Corporate Law and M&A:
The team advises a wide variety of clients on all aspects of company and commercial law including company law and company secretarial, as well as in complex transactions including mergers, sales and purchases of shares and assets, tender offers, exchange offers, and leveraged buy-outs.
Privacy and Reputation Management
Our Privacy lawyers are IT law and tech savvy lawyers with a passion for unravelling the nuances of technology, defamation law, and privacy law to protection fundamental rights, and over the years have garnered noteworthy results in these areas of law.
Financial services:
Chetcuti Cauchi’s specialist expertise and financial knowledge enables its advisors to provide resultsdriven commercial advice to financial entities on some of their most complex transactions and to help them address some of their most challenging business issues.
Shipping and Aviation:
The specialised aviation team consists of legal advisors, accountants and tax specialists drawn from its transport, corporate and tax practices who have an unparalleled span and depth of knowledge in the transportation industries. Its consultants provide results-driven practical counsel to its aviation clients on some of their most elaborate and unique transactions.
Commercial:
The firm always helps its clients to identify simple, practical solutions, and prefers to avoid costly and time-consuming litigation whenever possible. It understands that its clients need effective, commercially savvy legal advice.
Chetcuti Cauchi provides legal and tax advice with complex, multi-jurisdictional requirements.As an independent law firm, we collaborate routinely with client’s preferred foreign counsel. Where clients require legal counsel or tax advice in any part of the world, we can rely on our network of collaborating firms in all corners of the world and can recommend the right specialist according to the required area of expertise.Chetcuti Cauchi is the chosen collaborating firm in Malta for Andersen Global,drawing on the guidance and expertise of 11,000+ professionals in 160+ countries providing integrated legal and tax services suiting even the most particular cross-border scenarios.
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- Valletta120 St. Ursula Street, Valletta, Malta, Malta, VLT 1236
- Web: www.ccmalta.com
- Tel: +356 2205 6200
- Fax: +356 2205 6201
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The Advantages of the Malta Flag
Due to the private and public function of ship registration, owners and charterers must weigh different factors prior to choosing the flag state of their vessels. Malta, in this respect, has proven to be an ideal jurisdiction.
Intellectual Property Rights in Yachting
The world of yachting, a realm of luxury and innovation, stands as a testament to creativity and engineering. Amidst the azure expanse of the seas, a less obvious but equally important facet shapes this industry: intellectual property rights (IP Rights).
Moving to Malta: Applying for a European Pet Passport
In an increasingly interconnected world, pet owners often face the prospect of relocating with their beloved animals. For those planning a move to Malta, a European Pet Passport can be an essential document to ensure a hassle-free transition.
In a globalized economy, it is a common practice that entities forming part of a multinational enterprise (“MNE”) transact with each other. Such transactions between related parties are referred to as “controlled transactions”. The prices set in controlled transactions are called “transfer prices”.
Different structuring options for residential property ownership in Malta lead to varying taxation treatments, making tax and structuring considerations an integral aspect of the property purchase process.
Arm's Length Principle in Transfer Pricing
International production, trade and investment are increasingly organized within global value chains. Enterprises that produce goods or deliver services in more than one country are called multinational enterprises. They play the central role in global value chains, and, consequently, in economy.
The pricing of transactions between associated enterprises located in various states could potentially affect the amount of taxes collected by each state involved. To protect their tax bases, tax administrations around the world turn their attention to transfer pricing policies.
Following the introduction of Directive (EU) 2019/1023 on preventive restructuring frameworks, on the discharge of debt and disqualifications, the Maltese Parliament enacted three Acts which will substantially revolutionize the current Maltese legislation regulating processes of of insolvency.
Malta Residence Options for EU Nationals
Malta offers three main residence options for EU, EEA and Swiss nationals wishing to relocate to the island. These programs offer the opportunity to live in Malta, while also enjoying all the benefits that come with living on this island.
Legal Issues with AI-Generated Content: Copyright and ChatGPT
The Complexity between Literary Copyright Laws and Artificial Intelligence. ChatGPT has taken a different level of presence in the technological world, with this AI system being used to generate all types of literary and artistic content. With the advent of more sophisticated AI systems and the dept
A new era for Yachting. Legal writers assumed that every ship would carry a crew. Indeed, most of the maritime legislation which regulates the seas currently is based on this very assumption. Today, with the mass adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) on the horizon, it is ripe time to understand
Malta to offer a Start-Up Residence Permit
Malta Start-Up Residence Permit 2022 The new Malta Start-Up Residence Programme will be operated by the Residency Malta Agency and the government agency Malta Enterprise.
Three companies - Acronis, Runa Capital and Parallels joined forces and announced a €10 million investment project (to be invested over a three-year period) in a first Blockchain Hub in Malta. The aim of this project is to aid Malta in establishing itself as a hub of technological innovation by part
For every transaction process currently in existence, there’s the technology of Blockchain ready to disrupt it, with the promise of a lucrative and efficient platform that’s seemingly able to turn the process around on its head.
Malta Opportunity: Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
Talking of cryptocurrencies as an opportunity for the Maltese banking sector might sound outlandish in the context of a highly-regulated banking industry in Malta. However it is clearly inevitable that many industries including traditional banks will have to adapt to this highly innovative evolution
The Cryptocurrency Race Is On! Comparing Leaders In DLT Regulation
This article will explore how jurisdictions at the forefront of DLT regulation are moving forward in this race among regulators.
Proposed regulatory framework for Virtual Currencies and DLT
A consultation document on the establishment of the Malta Digital Authority ("MDIA" or "Authority") was unveiled by Hon. Silvio Schembri, the Parliamentary Secretary for the Financial Services, Digital Economy and Innovation.
Malta an Undiscovered Post- Brexit Solution
Although little is known about Malta as a company relocation destination after Brexit, it has potential to become an attractive spot for the UK businesses thanks to its robust economy, favourable taxation, high-skilled EU labour and UK-modelled legislation.
Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates named Best European Citizenship Adviser
Dr Jean-Philippe Chetcuti, Managing Partner and Head of the firm's Residency & Citizenship Practice at Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates accepted the 'Best European Citizenship' Adviser award at the VII Moscow Family Office Forum on behalf of the firm.
Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates Launch Dual Citizenship Report: European Region
Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates launched a new dual citizenship report that explores which European countries allow, prohibit or restrict dual citizenship.
Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates celebrates 15 years of legal services
Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates celebrated 15 years of legal services as a multi-disciplinary law firm offering legal, tax, corporate and accountancy services. The firm has grown with six office locations in Malta, and 4 offices internationally namely in London, Nicosia, Zurich and Hong Kong,
The Advantages of the Malta Flag
Due to the private and public function of ship registration, owners and charterers must weigh different factors prior to choosing the flag state of their vessels. Malta, in this respect, has proven to be an ideal jurisdiction.
Intellectual Property Rights in Yachting
The world of yachting, a realm of luxury and innovation, stands as a testament to creativity and engineering. Amidst the azure expanse of the seas, a less obvious but equally important facet shapes this industry: intellectual property rights (IP Rights).
Moving to Malta: Applying for a European Pet Passport
In an increasingly interconnected world, pet owners often face the prospect of relocating with their beloved animals. For those planning a move to Malta, a European Pet Passport can be an essential document to ensure a hassle-free transition.
In a globalized economy, it is a common practice that entities forming part of a multinational enterprise (“MNE”) transact with each other. Such transactions between related parties are referred to as “controlled transactions”. The prices set in controlled transactions are called “transfer prices”.
Different structuring options for residential property ownership in Malta lead to varying taxation treatments, making tax and structuring considerations an integral aspect of the property purchase process.
Arm's Length Principle in Transfer Pricing
International production, trade and investment are increasingly organized within global value chains. Enterprises that produce goods or deliver services in more than one country are called multinational enterprises. They play the central role in global value chains, and, consequently, in economy.
The pricing of transactions between associated enterprises located in various states could potentially affect the amount of taxes collected by each state involved. To protect their tax bases, tax administrations around the world turn their attention to transfer pricing policies.
Following the introduction of Directive (EU) 2019/1023 on preventive restructuring frameworks, on the discharge of debt and disqualifications, the Maltese Parliament enacted three Acts which will substantially revolutionize the current Maltese legislation regulating processes of of insolvency.
Malta Residence Options for EU Nationals
Malta offers three main residence options for EU, EEA and Swiss nationals wishing to relocate to the island. These programs offer the opportunity to live in Malta, while also enjoying all the benefits that come with living on this island.
Legal Issues with AI-Generated Content: Copyright and ChatGPT
The Complexity between Literary Copyright Laws and Artificial Intelligence. ChatGPT has taken a different level of presence in the technological world, with this AI system being used to generate all types of literary and artistic content. With the advent of more sophisticated AI systems and the dept
A new era for Yachting. Legal writers assumed that every ship would carry a crew. Indeed, most of the maritime legislation which regulates the seas currently is based on this very assumption. Today, with the mass adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) on the horizon, it is ripe time to understand
Malta to offer a Start-Up Residence Permit
Malta Start-Up Residence Permit 2022 The new Malta Start-Up Residence Programme will be operated by the Residency Malta Agency and the government agency Malta Enterprise.
Three companies - Acronis, Runa Capital and Parallels joined forces and announced a €10 million investment project (to be invested over a three-year period) in a first Blockchain Hub in Malta. The aim of this project is to aid Malta in establishing itself as a hub of technological innovation by part
For every transaction process currently in existence, there’s the technology of Blockchain ready to disrupt it, with the promise of a lucrative and efficient platform that’s seemingly able to turn the process around on its head.
Malta Opportunity: Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
Talking of cryptocurrencies as an opportunity for the Maltese banking sector might sound outlandish in the context of a highly-regulated banking industry in Malta. However it is clearly inevitable that many industries including traditional banks will have to adapt to this highly innovative evolution
The Cryptocurrency Race Is On! Comparing Leaders In DLT Regulation
This article will explore how jurisdictions at the forefront of DLT regulation are moving forward in this race among regulators.
Proposed regulatory framework for Virtual Currencies and DLT
A consultation document on the establishment of the Malta Digital Authority ("MDIA" or "Authority") was unveiled by Hon. Silvio Schembri, the Parliamentary Secretary for the Financial Services, Digital Economy and Innovation.
Malta an Undiscovered Post- Brexit Solution
Although little is known about Malta as a company relocation destination after Brexit, it has potential to become an attractive spot for the UK businesses thanks to its robust economy, favourable taxation, high-skilled EU labour and UK-modelled legislation.
Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates named Best European Citizenship Adviser
Dr Jean-Philippe Chetcuti, Managing Partner and Head of the firm's Residency & Citizenship Practice at Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates accepted the 'Best European Citizenship' Adviser award at the VII Moscow Family Office Forum on behalf of the firm.
Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates Launch Dual Citizenship Report: European Region
Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates launched a new dual citizenship report that explores which European countries allow, prohibit or restrict dual citizenship.
Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates celebrates 15 years of legal services
Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates celebrated 15 years of legal services as a multi-disciplinary law firm offering legal, tax, corporate and accountancy services. The firm has grown with six office locations in Malta, and 4 offices internationally namely in London, Nicosia, Zurich and Hong Kong,