On 18 June 2021, the Unfair Trading Practices in the Food Supply Chain Regulations (Legal Notice 266 of 2021 and hereinafter the 'UTP Regulations'), transposing Directive 2019/633 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on unfair trading practices in business-to-business relationships in the agricultural and food supply chain, came into force. The UTP Regulations aim to combat practices that deviate from commercial conduct that is contrary to good faith and fair dealing and which are unilaterally imposed by one trading party onto another. Th...

On 28 th June 2021, the EU Commission published its adequacy decision concerning the United Kingdom. Consequently, any transfers of personal data from the EU/EEA to the UK will henceforth be considered as if they were intra-EU transfers. The EU Commission periodically issues such adequacy decisions with respect to third countries around the world after assessing such countries' data protection legislation and determining that it is of an equal standard to that of the GDPR. The UK's adequacy decision was issued in an expedited manner since the UK officially exited ...

The Legal 500 EMEA published its 2021 edition and rankings on 14th April, 2021 and once again recognized Mamo TCV Advocates as one of the leading law firms in Malta. Apart from excellent rankings in all areas of practice, Prof. Andrew Muscat is listed in the Hall of Fame for Commercial, Corporate and M&A and as a Leading Individual in Banking, Finance & Capital Markets while Dr. Katya Tua and Dr Joe Camilleri were recognised as Leading Individuals in Investment Funds and Dispute Resolution respectively. Moreover, another 10 members of our team were singled...

Mamo TCV was again recognized as one of Malta's top law firms in the 2021 guide for Europe published by the international legal directory, Chambers and Partners . In ranking the firm in Band 1 for "General Business Law" (covering Corporate, Commercial, Financial Services and Dispute Resolution), Chambers described the firm as being " stellar " and as having an acclaimed corporate and dispute resolution practice that is regularly retained by local and international clients spanning the banking, pharmaceutical and real estate industries, as well as public sector cli...

Dr. Jonathan Abela Fiorentino , a Senior Associate in the Litigation and ADR team at Mamo TCV Advocates, recently successfully completed the London School of Mediation s ' International Accredited Civil and Commercial Mediation Training Course and was certified as Accredited Mediator in civil and commercial matters. With this certification, Jonathan is now competent to accept instructions as an Accredited Mediator, both domestically and internationally. Mediation is an ADR process whereby the participants themselves are the protagonists in seeking an amicable sett...