Camilleri Preziosi‘s corporate, commercial, and M&A offering encompasses cross-border share or asset purchase transactions, secured lending transactions, restructuring, and shareholders’ agreements. Corporate governance is another branch of the practice, an area in which Andrei Vella has a strength. Vella leads the group alongside Donald Vella, a tax expert who often handles tax elements of corporate transactions, Malcolm Falzon, and Ron Galea Cavallazzi. Louis de Gabriele is an experienced corporate expert who often leads the group’s cross-border transactions.

Fenech & Fenech Advocates fields a ‘highly skilled corporate team with specialist tax knowledge’, often collaborating with the firm’s tax team on corporate matters. The group also displays expertise in cross-border mergers, complex restructurings, joint ventures, privatisations and takeovers. Nicolai Vella Falzon, Paul Gonzi, Monica Galea John and Rosanne Bonnici lead a team praised for its commerciality and which ‘has a multi-disciplinary approach to corporate structuring and governance.’ Gonzi, in particular, stands out for the group’s day-to-day corporate law matters, particularly those related to employment law.

Ganado Advocates, a ‘dedicated and extremely knowledgeable’ team, stands out for handling majority stake acquisitions. The group is also strong in restructurings and assisting international clients with the formation of local entities in Malta, as well as cross-border mergers and liquidations. The group also incorporates a dedicated corporate services and governance team. Stephen Attard, Nikolai Muscat Farrugia, Christine Cassar Naudi, Simon Schembri, and Annalise Papa lead the team. George Bugeja is a go-to team member for corporate finance matters.

With clients spanning the gaming, sports and TMT sectors, GTG Advocates‘ ‘commercial and responsive’ team has been involved in high-value, majority-stake acquisitions for a range of large commercial clients in 2024, as well as private equity investors and Nasdaq-listed entities. Advice also extends to corporate restructurings. Managing partner Ian Gauci heads up the team alongside Terence Cassar and Cherise Abela Grech. Corporate law expert Josef Cachia Fenech Gonzi joined the group in 2024.

Praised for its personalised approach, GVZH Advocates regularly assists clients, which are increasingly hailing from the tech, fintech and gaming sectors, with local M&A in Malta, as well as contract drafting. Andrew Zammit, Kurt Hyzler and Ann Bugeja are the trio heading up the team, the latter of whom is key for assisting corporations with day-to-day issues. Zammit is key for the group’s corporate finance mandates.

Mamo TCV Advocates fields a team whose longstanding experience in the Maltese corporate sphere renders practitioners 'very comfortable with corporate and the structural elements of a transaction‘ from a Maltese law perspective. The group’s M&A expertise also includes large-scale acquisitions and portfolio sales, which span European jurisdictions. TMT sector expert Michael Psaila, Andrew Muscat, Edmond Zammit Laferla and managing partner Joseph Borg Bartolo head up the team.

Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates is well-placed to handle corporate restructurings and company formations and to assist foreign companies looking to set up in Malta due to the group’s longstanding experience in these areas. Expertise also extends to advising clients on M&A transactions and financing arrangements, as well as the tax implications of such transactions. The restructuring and reorganisation of complex structures is also a key area of strength for the group, who act for a varied client base which includes private individuals, family businesses, and other law firms. Charlene Mifsud, Priscilla Mifsud Parker, and Jean-Philippe Chetcuti head up the team.

WH Partners has strength in corporate restructuring and often leverages its large international network to advise clients on complex corporate structure matters. Additional work for the group includes corporate governance, as well as general commercial contract matters, an area of prominence for Robert Zammit. Managing partner James Scicluna leads the group, often handling the Maltese law aspects of large-scale commercial acquisitions. Rachel Vella Baldacchinio is a key transactional expert.