Ganado Advocates

Services:
Administration & Secretarial Services; Aircraft Finance, Advice & Assistance; Aircraft Registration; Banking Services; Company Formation & Liquidation; Fiduciary Services; Financial Services Advice & Assistance; Immigration & Residency Advisory Services; Legal Services; Marine Litigation; Ship Finance – Advice & Assistance; Ship Registration; Tax & VAT Consultancy; Trademarks & Patent Registration; Trusts; Yacht Registration

Profile:
Ganado Advocates is one of Malta’s leading commercial law firms with a particular focus on the corporate, financial services and maritime sectors. The firm traces its roots back to the early 1900th, and is today one of Malta’s foremost law practices that is consistently ranked as a top-tier law firm in all its core sectors. The firm has a predominantly international client base and a team of professional advisors with specialist expertise and experience to assist its clients.

Ganado Advocates is at the forefront of the ship registration and ship finance sectors in Malta, assisting owners, operators and their financiers with all transactions concerning ships and yachts, on the registration of vessels and mortgages under the Malta Flag and on relevant cross-border tax issues and Maltese tax incentives. The firm also advises clients on all major international maritime conventions concerning safety at sea, pollution and tonnage measurement and in handling port state and flag state control, crewing requirements, armed guards requirements in the context of piracy, renewal of certification and all other related legal, technical and administrative aspects concerning Maltese ships.

Having contributed directly over several decades towards creating and enhancing Malta’s hard-won reputation as a reliable and effective international centre for financial and maritime services, we seek to provide high standards of legal advisory services in a wide spectrum of international commercial and corporate activities.

Ganado Advocates has pioneered the establishment of a shipping practice in Malta and has since been responsible for the drafting of much of the Maltese shipping legislation over the years.

Ship registration, ship finance, yachting and admiralty law are at the heart of the firm’s maritime law practice. Our firm is a pioneer in these fields and our specialist maritime lawyers hold leading industry expertise and provide dependable support and advice, making the firm amongst the most established in this area.

We focus on assisting ship owners, ship operators and their financiers with all transactions concerning ships, on the registration of vessels and of mortgages under the Malta flag and on all related legal and technical aspects, including:

• tonnage tax advice;
• advice specifically focused on third party ship managers;
• advice on port activities and port regulatory regime;
• advice on ship recycling and maritime environmental issues; and
• advice to shipyards and ship repairers.

We also advise and assist yacht owners and their financiers with all transactions involving yachts and superyachts including registration, yacht financing, yacht sales and acquisitions and yacht leasing. The team ensures that the Malta ship and yacht registration procedure is amalgamated with corporate finance and tax and corporate and M&A advice for the purposes of implementing a structure that provides the client with asset protection and fiscal advantages, when available.