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.

Bar Admissions

• Admitted to the Maltese Bar, Superior Courts of Malta (1980)
• International Bar Association

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)

Significant Accomplishments
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

Professional Associations

• Member of the Malta Chamber of Advocates
• Institute of Financial Services Practitioners
• Professor in Commercial Law at the Faculty of Laws, University of Malta

• Duties of Directors of Financially Distressed Companies

  By Andrew Muscat |April 2020

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