Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates

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.