Ann Fenech and her team at Fenech & Fenech Advocates ‘are the go-to maritime lawyers in Malta’ and are ‘highly experienced and competent’ across the entire range of shipping matters. With separate departments for marine litigation, yachting, ship finance and ship registration, the firm has ‘professional specialists’ in each area. Its recent work includes towage disputes and salvage claims for Tug Malta Limited and acting for Virtu Ferries in a matter concerning a high-speed ferry public procurement process. In other work, it handled the lifting of an arrest warrant for XT Shipping Group, resulting in a clarification of Maltese law concerning bunker delivery notes – a case led by Adrian Attard, who made partner in January 2019. Mark Fenech, Rowena Grima and Alison Vassallo are other names to note.