Mamo TCV Advocates

Mamo TCV Advocates is a law firm in Valletta, Malta, with more than fifty lawyers and other professionals. It has a dedicated aviation team that supports international clients with aircraft registration, leasing, purchase, operation, importation and aviation litigation. Its clients include international financial institutions and public authorities.

The firm also has two subsidiaries: TCV Management and Trust Services Limited, licensed by the MFSA as a trustee and corporate services provider since 1994, and MamoTCV Consultancy Limited.

Aviation services

• Setting up companies that own, manage or operate aircraft, including AOC and operating licence holders
• Advice on ownership and operating structures, including EU Regulation 1008/2008 on air services
• Tax advice: corporate tax, personal tax, social security and home base rules, VAT, capital gains and documentary taxes
• Customs importation of aircraft into the EU, including temporary importation
• Advice on and negotiation of aircraft sale and purchase
• Aircraft finance: mortgages and Cape Town Convention registrations, security agreements, share pledges, security assignments, IDERAs and DPOAs, and review of loan documents
• Malta aircraft asset protected cell companies (MAPCC)
• Aviation litigation: asset tracing, aircraft arrest, enforcement of mortgages and Cape Town interests
• Lease termination and aircraft repossession for lessors and financiers
• Cross border and Article 83bis arrangements

Industry work

Mamo TCV contributed to the Chambers Aviation: Finance and Leasing 2026 guide. With the Malta Business Network it hosted Runway Finance, an event on lease finance in aviation, and it writes about Malta's new notification based regime for aircraft financial leasing companies.

Who it is for

The aviation team works with airlines, business jet operators, aircraft owners, lessors, banks and other financiers, and investors setting up aviation companies in Malta.

Contact

Mamo TCV Advocates, Palazzo Pietro Stiges, 103 Strait Street, Valletta VLT 1436, Malta. Phone +356 2540 3000. Aviation team email aviation@mamotcv.com. General email info@mamotcv.com.