Malta for Family Offices
Dr Jean-Philippe Chetcuti & Dr Priscilla Mifsud-Parker Senior Partners
In our experience, Malta owes its success in positioning itself as a European, English-speaking jurisdiction of choice for basing global or regional family offices of all scales to:
- Malta’s robust legal and tax system and family office ecosystem combining structuring opportunities for family assets in an onshore, compliant yet tax efficient jurisdiction. Complementing this, the availability of independent professional trust companies, our ability to assist families structure, set up and manage their own Private Trust Companies and investment/asset holding SPVs under Maltese law.
- Malta’s longstanding legal tradition protecting international family wealth, assets and business interests.
- Malta’s strategic geographical and economic positioning as a centrally-located, tax-efficient base for business expansion into the European market.
- A favourable Malta Res Non-Dom Tax system for expats in Malta for part of the year.
- A favourable immigration system for ultra high-net-worth individuals and families, digital nomads, executives, retirees and pensioners, with an unparalleled route to Maltese Permanent residence and Maltese citizenship by investment.
- A world first Family Business Act and a legal and tax ecosystem supporting family businesses and inter-generational family business transition.
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About the Authors
Dr Jean-Philippe Chetcuti [LinkedIn] has advised some of the world’s most accomplished high-net-worth individuals and family offices for over 25 years on matters of personal tax planning, investor citizenship programmes, tax residency, and international wealth structuring. JP is a member of the International Bar Association Private Client Wealth and Immigration and Nationality sections, and has served as chairman of the Malta Branch of STEP, the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners.
Dr Priscilla Mifsud-Parker is a private client lawyer who heads the Families & Wealth and Corporate, Trusts & Fintech practice groups within the firm. She specialises in wealth structuring and preservation for business families and high net worth individuals, corporate structuring and residency and citizenship planning. She currently serves as the chair of the Malta Branch of the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners (STEP).
