In the last four years, Malta has established itself as a prime location for the establishment of funds within our shores. Malta offers an array of opportunities in this asepct with the licensing of various formats such as retail funds, UCITS, private schemes, specialist schemes, professional investor funds and unit trust funds.
Our firm is a specialised firm in this regard. Malta's role as a European hub for financial services has resulted in an influx of fund managers, admninistrators and advisors seeking the Malta environement as a highly stable and rigorous one.
Our expertise in all aspects of financial services renders us leading advisors-of-choice to Maltese and foreign clients making serious steps towards choosing Malta as their fund domicile.
Chetcuti Cauchi is the investment services advisory firm of choice for promoters, fund managers, fund administrators, and functionaries in general.
Our investment funds team is made of lawyers, accountants, compliance offiers, anti-money laundering officers and project managers expertiise in representing clients in pioneer projects and atypical structures. With assistance from our inhouse tax specialists and accountants, and our access to two leading legal and accounting international netowrks, our key strengths lie in being in a position hand hold clients in all the project, from its inception in planning to its completion upon attainment of the relative license.
Our advisors form part of specialist practise groups focusing on financial services, corporate law, banking, investment services, professional investor funds, retail funds, UCITS, hedge funds, tax and insurance law.
Our professionals are members of respected professional associations including the the Council of the Institute of Financial Services Practitioners (IFSP), the Malta Institute of Taxation, various investment services subcommittees of the IFSP, the Society for Trusts & Estates Practitioners, the Malta Institute of Accountants and the Chamber of Advocates.
We are often requested to draft position papers and consultative documents to be presented to the Regulator on all aspects of Maltese Financial Services, we regularly speak at conferences and host specialist panels and we also regularly deliver investment services-related sessions in local and international fora.
We work closely with the Malta Financial Services Authority and represent the industry in the Institute for Financial Services Practitioners. This positions Chetcuti Cauchi as the financial services law firm for discerning operators seeking a one-stop financial services solution provider in Malta.