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Family Offices & High-Net-Worth Individuals

Best-in-class specialist family offices representation and advice to high-net-worth and UHNW individuals and families and their family offices.
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Summary

Best-in-class specialist family offices services built on decades of experience representing and advising high-net-worth and UHNW individuals and families. We are trusted advisors to family offices of some of the wealthiest individuals and families in the world, hailing from all continents.  We provide a complete multidisciplinary legal and tax coverage of all family office and HNWI needs.

At Chetcuti Cauchi, our Family Offices and HNWI team of lawyers and tax advisors are entrusted with the complete multidisciplinary coverage of all family office and HNWI legal and tax advisory and compliance needs, ranging from immigration, citizenship-by-investment, family office structuring, investment structuring, asset protection, estate and tax planning and cybersecurity.

Our Family Offices & HNWI Focus

As an independent law firm, our Family Offices and High-Net-Worth Individuals focus is on independent legal and tax advice on all aspects of designing, implementing and running a family office or any of its components. We advise on appropriate vehicles for the acquisition and holding of all asset classes.  We ensure legal, regulatory, tax and financial compliance of all family offices vehicles and provide guidance to internal staff and other external advisors on compliance in family office matters.

We do not provide financial advice or wealth management services. Such services are often entrusted with best of breed asset managers, wealth managers, private banks, investment advisors and custodians and we are able to help shortlist and set the relative parameters in accordance with any applicable trust instruments or the Family Charter.

Our seasoned, commercially savvy family office lawyers are sensitive to the needs of HNW families and support the various asset holding, wealth management and business management structures to ensure safe, compliant and efficient operations while providing successful families with the support they need in their personal lifestyle management.

Trusted Lawyers to HNWIs and Family Offices

Our Family Offices and HNWI legal team is lead by Dr Jean-Philippe Chetcuti, co-founder and managing partner of the firm and Dr Priscilla Mifsud-Parker, a senior partner within the firm, both professionally active within STEP, the Society of Trust and Estates branch in Malta, both having served terms as chairpersons of the STEP Malta Branch. Dr Mifsud-Parker and Dr Chetcuti serve some of world's most prominent captains of industry, innovator-disruptors and founder to 3rd generation families, spanning the spectrum of industries they represent, from oil and gas, manufacturing, education, investment management, venture capital to online gaming, blockchain and crypto. We provide a proactive partner-led and partner-involved services to ensure family office heads and their staff can rely on us to avoid or pre-empt problems, shielding HNW beneficiaries to maximise their quality of life.

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What success sounds like,from our clients

Priscilla Mifsud Parker and Marina Magri guided me through Malta’s citizenship by merit process with exceptional clarity and discipline. They translated complex requirements into a practical roadmap, injected security in a discretionary process, and managed timelines and documentation proactively. Beyond the legal work, they took genuine care to understand the purpose behind my collection and my cultural projects in Malta, helping align the narrative, governance and delivery with Maltese legal requirements. Both were responsive, calm under pressure, and consistently one step ahead – the kind of advisors you want when the details truly matter.

Art Collector, Retiree, USA

I engaged Chetcuti Cauchi to transition my citizenship by investment process, started before the ECJ decision, to the new Citizenship by Merit laws in Malta. Partners Jean-Philippe Chetcuti, Priscilla Mifsud-Parker, and Antoine Saliba-Haig inspired confidence in their extensive experience from the first conversations, which confirmed my decision to work with a local specialist law firm. JP, Priscilla and Antoine stayed involved throughout the case right to completion, in a process that clearly needed senior legal attention. I am now a proud Maltese citizen, having moved from the US to Malta with my family. I'm in love with Malta, the Mediterranean lifestyle, the inclusivity and above all, the warm people I now form part of.

Tech Entrepreneur & Venture Capitalist, USA

It took me time to find such a well-informed source of guidance in establishing a course of action that best suits my circumstances in preserving my quality of life and assets. Taxation regulations differ from country to country, making professional advice essential. I have no hesitation in stating that I found Messrs. Chetcuti Cauchi, and more specifically Magdalena Velkovska, as an illuminated lighthouse of information and advice on Maltese law and regulations – help that has been invaluable to me.

Retired HNW Business Owner

Maria - very available and attentive and extremely technical. Susanna  - very helpful and practical.

CEO, Tech Startup, Malta

We have worked with Magdalena Velkovska, and she is exceptional, detailed, and deal oriented. She has responded in time, giving us, prompt, well explained detailed information on the subject.

Legal 500, Private Client, 2024

Magdalena Velkovska is a very knowledgeable and competent lawyer. Her experience is evident as she is even pre-empting what would my questions be, what I would be concerned about - and she addressed all these points in the most calm, clear and understandable way. She was very diligent, reliable and prompt in handling all my matters and applied thorough legal analysis to my case, unlike the previous lawyer I had engaged. She is very easy to work with, and I would definitely recommend her.

Legal 500, Private Client, 2024

We have a superstar client point of contact in Magdalena Velkovska. We use the firm for everything - setting up and managing entities, asset purchases and disposals, citizenship, tax, and as such use members of the entire team. She provides a superior, single point of contact.

Private Client speaking to Legal 500 Private Client Tax

Dr. Chetcuti has always shown great wisdom and knowledge. He’s remarkably courteous and client-oriented.

UHNWI speaking to Chambers & Partners, Private Wealth Law

Chetcuti  Cauchi has been doing many different aspects of IP work for us for several  years, and I have always been more than satisfied with their work. All the people at the firm with whom I have been in contact have been very professional, efficient and quick in their efforts to assist us.  Dr Maria Chetcuti Cauchi has always kept me well informed about every angle of the matters we have dealt with, extremely professional and I fully trust  her advice and suggestions. Another thing which I have appreciated is her swift way of replying to our requests.I can highly recommend the firm Chetcuti Cauchi to anybody who needs IP advice on Malta.

Cecilia Emanuelson, Chief Legal Counsel, IKEA
 

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