Our client, a company operating out of another European Union Member State, instructed us to advise and act on its re-domiciliation to Malta, conversion into a Public Limited Liability Company and IPO on a major regulated European Stock Exchange. Re-domiciliation of the overseas company, rather than its winding up and incorporation of a new company in Malta, was desirable to ensure continuity for the company as well as being a more cost-effective and timely solution to address the client’s needs.

The re-domiciliation of the corporate entity  established overseas, to Malta, initially required the conversion of that  corporate vehicle to one which could be re-domiciled to Malta; in this case, an entity very similar to a Maltese private company limited by shares. Once the conversion became effective, we worked closely with the foreign and local registrars of companies in order to complete the company’s re-domiciliation.   Once successfully re-domiciled, the company had to be converted to a public company limited by shares in order for its shares to be able to be publicly traded. The conversion was successfully completed in within  two weeks from submission of the required documentation to the Registrar of Companies in Malta. We then assisted the client with the drafting and preparation of the prospectus and other documentation required for the company’s IPO during which process we worked closely with the client’s legal and financial advisors in the jurisdiction where the IPO was to be launched.