The firm handles a number of corporate issues dealing with all aspects of Malta company law including structuring and formation, corporate governance, shareholders' agreements, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance agreements, joint ventures, commercial partnerships, agreements for the sale and purchase of shares, transfers of business, and re-domiciliation of companies into and out of Malta. The firm is retained by several international clients, advising them on various structuring and financial security issues relevant to their Maltese subsidiaries, and also acts for a number of European-based financial institutions in attaining valid and enforceable security rights over assets situated in Malta or vested in Maltese persons.
The firm’s expertise in this field spans the following service activities:
- Mergers and acquisitions;
- Legal due diligence reports;
- Searches of Maltese companies on the basis of public records;
- Security agreements including pledges of shares and pledges of receivables;
- Legal opinions on the validity and enforceability of financial security;
- Corporate structuring;
- Protection of minority interests;
- Implementation of good corporate governance practices and procedures;
- Share transfers (inter vivos) and transmissions (causa mortis);
- Joint-venture agreements;
- Re-domiciliation of companies into and out of Malta.
The firm also offers a full range of back-office support services through the CSB Group, an associated group of service-companies providing a full range of administrative and commercial support for Maltese companies including the administration of all Malta tax formalities, book-keeping, recruitment, management services and company secretarial services.
Trust and fiduciary services are provided through CSB Trustees & Fiduciaries Limited, a company authorised to act as a Trust Company by the Malta Financial Services Authority.
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