Malta: Corporate and Company Law

Under Maltese company law, creditors holding at least one-fourth of a company's debt value have the statutory right to request a meeting to potentially replace the Official Receiver as liquidator. This mechanism provides creditors with meaningful influence over the liquidation process, particularly when specialized expertise or a different approach to asset recovery is needed.

Malta's Commercial Court has been re-established as a superior court with extensive jurisdiction over commercial disputes, maritime matters, aviation claims, and intellectual property cases. The reform introduces significant changes to how commercial litigation will be handled, though certain aspects of the Court's scope remain subject to interpretation. Practitioners must carefully navigate the new jurisdictional framework to ensure cases are filed in the appropriate forum.

For most Maltese companies, mandatory sustainability reporting has quietly disappeared following the Omnibus package's raised thresholds. While the legal obligation may have changed, the fundamental business reasons for taking sustainability seriously remain intact. This analysis explores why sustainability still matters beyond compliance, what lenders now expect regardless of company size, and which regulations still apply even when CSRD doesn't.