Our Family Office Lawyers

Senior private client lawyer specialising in global citizenship and European residency programmes, family office structuring, international tax, trusts and estate planning.  Jean-Philippe has advised some of the world's most accomplished ultra-HNWIs and their family offices, lawyers, private banks, and wealth managers. JP has over the years specialised in Maltese Citizenship by Merit Applications, within the firm's highly respected citizenship law practice.

Priscilla is a private client lawyer who heads the Families & Wealth and Corporate, Trusts & Fintech practice groups at Chetcuti Cauchi. She specialises in wealth structuring and preservation for business families and high net worth individuals and cooperates with legal and tax advisors worldwide to plan, set up and maintain corporate structure representing an international footprint. Priscilla also advises on residence and citizenship.

Dr Maria Chetcuti Cauchi is a co-founding partner and co-Managing Partner, responsible for the Chetcuti Cauchi’s well-regarded Property practice and its growing Philanthropy, Art & Cultural Property advisory offering. Since 2001, she has advised private clients, investors, developers and international groups on high-value acquisitions and disposals, commercial and residential leasing, property financing, and complex title and risk diligence. Her work increasingly sits at the intersection of property, cross-border wealth structuring, and legacy planning – including philanthropic asset-holding, collections governance, and cultural property issues with a European dimension

Magdalena Velkovska, Director, Private Client Tax at Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates, specialises in private clients tax and global mobility solutions for founders and entrepreneurs and their families. Her expertise spans tax, private wealth and immigration services, with a focus on resident non-domicile status, tax residency, special tax statuses, and cross-border private tax planning.

Joanna and her team assist international clients in setting up their trusts, holding companies, and business entities in Malta and other jurisdictions.

Charlene works within the firm's licenced corporate services arm, assisting with the setting up of  companies in Malta, providing corporate compliance and corporate administration services, and executing corporate structuring projects.