Partner
Corporate, Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Insolvency
Andrew Muscat
Andrew Muscat
Andrew Muscat is a Senior Partner at Mamo TCV Advocates and heads the Corporate, Capital Markets, Insolvency and Banking practice groups. He has developed a wide-ranging commercial law practice advising corporate clients on corporate and commercial matters ranging from M&A transactions, corporate restructurings and corporate finance to privatizations and joint ventures. He regularly advises international banks in various forms of financing including project financing and merger and acquisition financing.
As counsel to some of Malta’s leading publicly listed companies, he has gained considerable experience on capital markets issues, including bond issues, spin-offs, rights issues and voluntary and mandatory bids. He also regularly advises clients in dealing with distressed companies operating in the financial and commercial sectors.
Andrew is also Professor of Commercial Law in the Faculty of Laws at the University of Malta where he has taught company law, insolvency law, banking law and credit instruments.
Practice Areas
- Banking and Finance
- Capital Markets
- Corporate and Commercial
- Energy and Resources
- Mergers & Acquisitions, Insolvency
Education
- Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) (1979, University of Malta)
- Master of Letters (M.Litt). (1983, Worcester College, Oxford)
- Master of Laws (LL.M.) (1980, University of London)
- Ph.D (1994, University of London)
Representative Experience
- Headed the team advising on the successful spin-off of a subsidiary of a major listed company
- Advised consortium of bankers financing major energy project in Malta
- Headed team advising on the sale of a major listed company
- Headed team advising on bond issues listed on the Malta Stock Exchange
- Advised on sale and acquisition of major companies registered in Malta
- Regularly acts for international banking consortia on bank financing projects involving Maltese companies
- Represented financial institution on charges relating to money laundering
- Advising on acquisition of significant interest in airline company
- Advises publicly listed companies in the manufacturing and services sectors on duties of directors
- Advised insurance company and its directors on an insolvency situation
- Advises creditors on asset tracing litigation
- Advises on liquidation and winding up proceedings and actions for wrongful or fraudulent trading
Memberships
- Admitted to the Maltese Bar, Superior Courts of Malta (1980)
- Member of the Malta Chamber of Advocates
- International Bar Association
- Institute of Financial Services Practitioners
- Professor in Commercial Law at the Faculty of Laws, University of Malta
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Palazzo Pietro Stiges
103, Strait Street
Valletta, VLT 1436
Malta
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