Davinia Cutajar is a partner at WH Partners. Her main areas of practice are Corporate law, Compliance, Dispute Resolution, Real Estate and Employment law. She also assists clients with their Trust and Foundation requirements and supports the firm’s Immigration practice.

Before joining WH, Davinia was the Managing Partner of a law firm in Malta focusing on corporate law and financial services, employment law, relocation services and yacht and trademark registration. 

While her legal career started as a litigation lawyer with a well-respected law firm in Valletta, she later moved to corporate, trustee and compliance law, fulfilled the role of Money Laundering Reporting Officer and Compliance Officer for a corporate and trustee services in Malta, before being appointed as the Director responsible for the same industries within the same organisation. 

Davinia was admitted to the Malta Bar in March 2006, and has been a member of the Chamber of Advocates since. She is a member of the Institute for Financial Services Practitioners (IFSP) and forms part of the IFSP's Sub-Committee on Compliance.

Education

Davinia read law at the University of Malta and was conferred a B.A. in Legal and Humanistic (European) Studies in 2003, a Diploma of Notary Public in 2004, and a Doctorate of Laws in 2005, after successfully completing an ERASMUS program at Tor Vergata University in Rome, Italy, in the same year. 

She is fluent in English, Maltese and Italian, and has a basic knowledge of French.