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Mamo TCV Advocates Admits a New Partner News

Mamo TCV Advocates Admits a New Partner

Mamo TCV Advocates is pleased to announce that Dr Veronica Grixti will be appointed as a partner of the firm with effect from 1st August 2024. Veronica obtained her Doctoral degree in Law from the University of Malta in 2004 and a Master of Law degree in Magister Juris (European & Comparative Law) in 2005 and joined the firm’s corporate and general commercial and insurance team as an associate in 2005. Her main fields of practice are insurance, general commercial, corporate, real estate, trust and inheritance law, with her primary area of practice being the provision of legal support to…
Mamo TCV Advocates
1st August 2024
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DORA: An Overview of the Maltese Legal Provisions Data Protection and PrivacyDORATelecoms, Media & Technology

DORA: An Overview of the Maltese Legal Provisions

On 16 July 2024, Legal Notice 166 of 2024 was published in Malta. This implemented the relevant provisions of DORA (full title being Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 December 2022 on digital operational resilience for the financial sector and amending Regulations (EC) No 1060/2009, (EU) 648/2012, (EU) 600/2014, (EU) No 909/2014 and (EU) 2016/1011) into Maltese law. The said provisions can now be found under the Malta Financial Services Authority Act (Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)) Regulations, 2024 (S.L. 330.20) – the ‘Maltese Regulations’. The Maltese Regulations shall come into force on…
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31st July 2024
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MFSA Updates Passporting Process for (Re)Insurance Undertakings Insurance & Reinsurance

MFSA Updates Passporting Process for (Re)Insurance Undertakings

On the 12th July 2024, the Malta Financial Services Authority (“MFSA”) published a Circular  introducing new passporting forms for (re)insurance undertakings as part of the MFSA’s efforts to address new requirements emanating from the Cross Border Notification Platform launched in February 2023. Three new forms (new application, changes, discontinuation) were published to ensure that the MFSA and host member states have proper access to all relevant information with the aim of enhancing supervision and ensuring a level of uniformity between EEA jurisdictions. Moreover, the MFSA’s aim for this update is to also ensure targeted access to all relevant information, thereby…
Mamo TCV Advocates
31st July 2024
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Malta Business Registry Issues Notice Regarding Memoranda and Articles of Association Antitrust, Competition and TradeCorporate and M&ARegulatory Compliance

Malta Business Registry Issues Notice Regarding Memoranda and Articles of Association

On the 29thJuly, the Malta Business Registry (MBR) issued a notice advising that any memoranda and articles of association being filed with the Registrar of Companies, whether in the course of an incorporation of a new company or as an amendment to memoranda and articles of association of companies already registered, need to be amended in order to refer to certain notification obligations which Maltese companies may be subject to. The required amendment relates to the objects clause of a company’s memorandum and articles of association and the proviso which is generally included which provides that the objects for which…
Mamo TCV Advocates
30th July 2024
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IIJ Scholarship in the Rule of Law and Criminal Justice News

IIJ Scholarship in the Rule of Law and Criminal Justice

Mamo TCV Advocates is pleased to support the George Vella Award for Criminal Justice Excellence, which has been launched by the International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law (IIJ) in commemoration of its 10th Anniversary. The scholarship aims to support the next generation of Maltese leaders in the counter-terrorism space. The scholarship will award a Maltese student enrolled in an accredited Maltese university with a three-month paid internship at the IIJ for three months during the 2024-2025 academic year, at a time that suits the awardee’s schedule, in-person at the IIJ in Valletta. The IIJ, based in Valletta,…
Mamo TCV Advocates
29th July 2024