Family Office Advisory

Chetcuti Cauchi's family office advisors and lawyers are well aware of the importance of optimal design of family office structures to ensure protection and management of family wealth and family businesses.

Our Malta Family Office Advisory Practice

Our boutique family office services have evolved around the needs of our private clients and are tailored to meet and overcome the challenges they face every day, as well as helping our clients’ wealth to stand the test of time.

Led by Senior Partners Dr Jean-Philippe Chetcuti and Dr Priscilla Mifsud Parker, our Global Family Office Advisory practice undertakes a limited number of bespoke assignments each year. Family office advisory projects, which include family office design, review, audit, and advice, require a hands-on approach due to their complex and personalised nature.

Our multi-disciplinary approach ensures comprehensive all-in-house services to business families and successful entrepreneurs of all ages, addressing both their business needs and personal family goals. Specialist private client practices combine seamlessly together to provide best-in-class advice on personal tax, corporate tax, trusts, corporate governance, immigration and family law often on an international level. Our experienced family office lawyers understand the unique needs of families and offer strategic advice to enhance wealth growth and protection, business potential, smooth operations and effective personal lifestyle management.

Read more: Malta: Prime Family Office Jurisdiction in Europe.

Family Office Services in a Global Context

Our Family Office Structuring practice operates on a global level through our close network of legal and tax firms and works with best-in-class colleagues in their respective fields across the globe. This ensures we are able to offer our clients the best fit for their requirements without country bias.

Comprehensive Family Office Services

As a multi-disciplinary legal and tax firm with a strong international practice, Chetcuti Cauchi offers a wide range of services for family offices, tailored to meet the unique needs of high-net-worth families and their businesses:

1. Family Office Structuring and Governance: This includes designing and setting up family office structures, providing governance frameworks, designing family charters or family constitutions, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
2. Tax Planning and Tax Compliance: tax planning advice and tax-efficient structures, managing personal and corporate tax compliance on a global level.
3. Asset Protection and Wealth Management: Services include setting up trusts and foundations, advising on asset protection strategies, and managing investments and high-value assets such as real estate, yachts, and private jets.
4. ‍Investment Control: investment due diligence, designing & implementing family investment vehicles, co-investment platforms, and the implementation of listing and exit strategies, the use of foundations, family trusts, real estate investment trusts and investments in companies.‍
5. Succession Planning: Assisting with estate planning, estate management, drafting wills and creating succession plans to ensure smooth transitions of wealth and business control.
6. ‍Corporate and Business Advisory: Providing legal advice on corporate structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and other business-related matters
7. ‍Residence Planning : advising on immigration, tax residency and tax info exchange matters.
8. Global Citizenship: Advising on citizenship by investment programs, including investment-based immigration options
9. ‍Legal and Regulatory Compliance: Ensuring that family offices comply with all relevant legal and regulatory requirements.
10. Risk and Compliance Services: Conducting background checks on recruits, business partners, and vendors and advising on anti-money laundering (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) regulations
11. ‍Dispute Resolution: Offering mediation, arbitration, and litigation services to resolve disputes within the family or with external parties.
12. Global Real Estate: real estate management, property ownership structures, legal due diligence, hospitality and estate management.
13. Accounting, Record-keeping, and Administration: accounting, document management, book-keeping and record keeping.
14. IT, Cybersecurity and Data Protection: Technology Management, IT Law, cybersecurity and data protection, privacy and reputation management.
15. Philanthropy: drafting of Philanthropy polices, structuring charitable foundations for charitable giving.
16. ESG: Best practices in Environmental, Social and Governance are of growing importance to family offices and family businesses.

These services are designed to provide comprehensive support to family offices, helping them manage their wealth, ensure compliance, and achieve their long-term goals.