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Rosanne Bonnici

Partner

Specialism: Lawyers Immigration, Tax, Estate Planning

Company: Fenech & Fenech Advocates

Location: Valletta, Malta

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Institutional client review:

Dr. Bonnici acted for us in various corporate and tax matters relating to opening a Maltese entity within a growing global corporate structure. Her level professionalism and her ability to work with attorneys from several other legal and tax jurisdictions was outstanding. We look forward to working with her and her team far into the future.

29 Aug 2018

Institutional client review:

Dr. Bonnici has provided our firm with legal guidance on various matters over the timespan of nearly a decade. She has always excelled at being professional and thorough. I would recommend her without hesitation.

29 Aug 2018

Institutional client review:

I always have a sense of comfort when Dr. Bonnici is handling a new project for us. Not only is she extremely responsive to any questions I may have but she has the ability to understand the client’s needs and look around the corner and alert us to any potential problems that may be on the horizon. Dr. Bonnici is always there to help, her expertise and integrity are unquestionable.

29 Aug 2018

Institutional client review:

Dr. Bonnici acted for us in various corporate and tax matters, including obtaining Maltese citizenship for a client. She is very responsive and efficient and her advice is always clear and practical. It is pleasant to work with her

29 Aug 2018

Private client review:

Dr Rosanne Bonnici has been advising me on personal Maltese and UK Tax law for many years now. When I first came to Malta in 2003, she advised me wisely on becoming a resident or not. Then over the years she was helpful with the understanding of the various issues which arose. Lately, she has advised me on Tax relating to the UK and came up with a better strategy than my British tax experts. Finally, she has overseen my tax position on selling my house in Malta and dealt with any tax required. I can only recommend her as true professional with enormous experience and knowledge of both Maltese and international Law, together with an efficiency and attention to detail which goes with her delightful personality.

04 Apr 2018

Peer review:

Not only does Rosanne have extensive knowledge of the technical options available to clients wishing to consider Malta as a jurisdiction through which to structure their affairs, she gives commercial and practical advice which clients and their advisers greatly appreciate.

07 Feb 2018

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Average client size: £5 million - £25 million

Fixed fee offering: Yes - Whilst we typically charge on a time spent basis, we have fixed fees offerings in relation to particular assignments e.g. applications for citizenship, residence permits and status in terms of tax programmes, as well as in relation to particular jobs e.g. fee proposal for the drafting of a trust settlement.

Fenech & Fenech Advocates

Number of offices globally: 1-5

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IFC Powerwomen Top 200 2017 IFC Powerwomen Top 200 2018 IFC Powerwomen Top 200 2018 International Powerwomen Top 100 2019

Institutional client review:

Dr. Bonnici acted for us in various corporate and tax matters relating to opening a Maltese entity within a growing global corporate structure. Her level professionalism and her ability to work with attorneys from several other legal and tax jurisdictions was outstanding. We look forward to working with her and her team far into the future.

29 Aug 2018

Institutional client review:

Dr. Bonnici has provided our firm with legal guidance on various matters over the timespan of nearly a decade. She has always excelled at being professional and thorough. I would recommend her without hesitation.

29 Aug 2018

Institutional client review:

I always have a sense of comfort when Dr. Bonnici is handling a new project for us. Not only is she extremely responsive to any questions I may have but she has the ability to understand the client’s needs and look around the corner and alert us to any potential problems that may be on the horizon. Dr. Bonnici is always there to help, her expertise and integrity are unquestionable.

29 Aug 2018

Institutional client review:

Dr. Bonnici acted for us in various corporate and tax matters, including obtaining Maltese citizenship for a client. She is very responsive and efficient and her advice is always clear and practical. It is pleasant to work with her

29 Aug 2018

Private client review:

Dr Rosanne Bonnici has been advising me on personal Maltese and UK Tax law for many years now. When I first came to Malta in 2003, she advised me wisely on becoming a resident or not. Then over the years she was helpful with the understanding of the various issues which arose. Lately, she has advised me on Tax relating to the UK and came up with a better strategy than my British tax experts. Finally, she has overseen my tax position on selling my house in Malta and dealt with any tax required. I can only recommend her as true professional with enormous experience and knowledge of both Maltese and international Law, together with an efficiency and attention to detail which goes with her delightful personality.

04 Apr 2018

Peer review:

Not only does Rosanne have extensive knowledge of the technical options available to clients wishing to consider Malta as a jurisdiction through which to structure their affairs, she gives commercial and practical advice which clients and their advisers greatly appreciate.

07 Feb 2018

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European Commission consultation to avoid aggressive tax planning

I was engaged as a Malta national expert for the purposes of the Study on Structures of Aggressive Tax Planning and Indicators, commissioned by the European Commission and published as part of the EU’s Anti Tax Avoidance Package in January 2016.

Advised on an Eastern European shopping mall litigation: Euro 100's millions

We advised on all the corporate/tax restructuring of the largest shopping mall operator in an Eastern European company with Malta entities, advising on the corporate and tax aspects of same, and assisting clients in a year plus long dispute with a shareholder in Court, leading to the recent closing of a corporate deal in the € 100’s millions. 

Advising a client on repurchasing his group

We recently advised a client with respect to a rationalisation of his interests in a multi-national group, across several jurisdictions, devising a partnership arrangement for profit extraction at various levels and in various legal forms. Subsequently, we assisted this same client in a reversal of this transaction, further to which he repurchased his entire group.

Tax arrangement concerning commercial yacht

We were asked to consider a case where a Maltese company holds a commercial yacht on the basis of a ‘mandatory relationship’ as required by German tax law, to accordingly consider the proper categorization of this relationship both legally and also for tax purposes, and whether the company thus qualified to benefit from Malta’s Tonnage Tax Regime.  This case was particularly complex as we had to advise on the proper legal categorization of the relationship in order to be able to then advise on the tax treatment of the arrangement as so structured. This case illustrates the unique skill set that our Tax & Immigration Law Team – forming part of one of the oldest, largest full service law firms, brings to the table, as we had to draw upon our extensive experience and expertise in Civil Law and Trust Law in order to be able to properly categorise the particular mandatory relationship so as to advise on the tax treatment of same.  We also liaised with the Malta Financial Services Authority to seek an innovative ruling on the matter.

Assisting HNWI family owning a multi-national group in hospitality

This was a very challenging case, involving a very large privately owned multi national group spanning a number of jurisdictions and companies set up in same.  Client had booked a number of transactions involving a number of Maltese companies in the books of the foreign companies, but had not notified the Maltese companies involved, that had not executed the documentation giving effect to same at the Malta end and had since closed its financial statements for the years in question going back a few years. We were brought in to analyse the tax treatment of each of the transactions that were not booked in Malta, to advise on the tax consequences of same, and how best to address this non-booking from a legal and tax point of view, so as to ratify / give effect to the transactions in question and, in so doing, seek to mitigate the negative tax implications of same. This required us to bring to the table our extensive corporate and transactional law expertise, besides our tax law expertise, and the expertise of our inhouse tax accounting team, to advise on how best to regularise same and move forward to take the necessary legal steps in the most tax efficient way possible.