Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates

Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates is a law firm in Valletta, Malta. Its aviation team helps clients register aircraft in Malta, buy and sell aircraft, charter and lease aircraft, and deal with other aviation law matters. The firm's aviation tax advisers and accountants add corporate structuring and tax planning, so clients can get legal and tax help in one place. The firm says it is recognised by Legal 500 for aviation law.

The team often acts as project manager on high value deals and leads talks with the other side, banks and the authorities. It represents aircraft holding and management companies, aviation financiers and private jet owners.

Aviation services

• Aircraft registration in Malta
• Aircraft sale and purchase
• Aircraft chartering and leasing
• Aircraft finance for lenders
• Private aircraft ownership and management structures
• Drafting and negotiating aviation service agreements, such as maintenance and repair agreements
• VAT and tax planning using Malta companies, including aircraft VAT leasing
• Advice on the Malta personal tax scheme for aviation executives
• Bilateral air services agreements and conditions of carriage
• Airline regulation and aviation insurance
• Unlawful conduct on board aircraft, and seizure of aircraft

Why Malta, according to the firm

• The Aircraft Registration Act 2010, with wider rules for registering aircraft not used for commercial air service, and recognition of fractional ownership
• The Cape Town Convention and its Aircraft Protocol in Maltese law
• EASA membership and mutual recognition of AOCs, licences and maintenance organisations
• A Malta registered aircraft can fly freely within the EU

Who it is for

The aviation team works with aircraft owners, private jet owners, aircraft management and holding companies, financiers, airlines and aviation executives moving to Malta.

Contact

Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates, 120 St Ursula Street, Valletta VLT 1236, Malta. Phone +356 2205 6200. Email info@ccmalta.com.