Malta: Trusts

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STEP Journal: Mifsud Parker On Protecting Family Business Legacies
Family businesses face complex challenges when transferring wealth and control across generations. This analysis explores the intersection of legal structures and family dynamics that determine whether succession planning succeeds or fails, examining how trusts, foundations and governance frameworks can preserve business continuity while managing intergenerational relationships.
Malta Wealth Mgt
CC
Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates
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Not All That Glitters Is Proceeds: For The First Time, A Maltese Court Rebuffs A Non-Conviction Confiscation Claim
On 16 September 2026 Malta’s Civil Court (Asset Recovery Section) threw out, in its entirety, a claim by the Asset Recovery Bureau and the Commissioner of Police to confiscate more than half a million euro held on trust. It is understood to be the first time a Maltese court has rejected a non-conviction based confiscation claim after an interested third party stepped in to defend the property.
Malta Criminal
WP
WH Partners
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STEP Journal: Chetcuti And Mifsud Parker On Malta’s Single-Family Office Model
Malta's evolving single-family office model offers internationally mobile families a sophisticated framework combining trusts, private trust companies, holding structures and Notified Professional Investor Funds. How can this coordinated legal and regulatory architecture support governance, fiduciary oversight, succession planning and the institutionalisation of family wealth spanning multiple jurisdictions?
Malta Wealth Mgt
CC
Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates
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