Mark Fenech

Practice Areas
Mark Fenech is a Senior Partner at Fenech & Fenech Advocates, heads the firm’s Ship Finance department and is a member of the Ship Registration and Corporate law department. Since 1996, he has practiced in the area of ship finance and has gained considerable experience in advising various international banks as lenders in different transactions involving Mortgages registered over Malta-flag vessels. He has also advised Maltese and non-Maltese shipping companies in their capacity as borrowers and mortgagors and has also given advice and issued legal opinions on security documents governed by English Law involving the registration of Maltese mortgages. He has vast experience on the Maltese law aspects in relation to security documentation connected with financings granted by major international Banks to Maltese corporate borrowers, leading up to the legal registration of Maltese Statutory Mortgages against the respective Malta flag vessel/s.

Languages
Maltese, English, and Italian

Education
1982 - Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) University of Malta. Title of doctoral thesis “The Lifting of the Corporate Veil: A Comparative Study”
1980 - Diploma of Notary Public, University of Malta

Involvements/Memberships
Member of the International Bar Association (Section on Business Law) since 1988
Member of the Chamber of Advocates, Malta
Member of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Malta)
Founder Member Association of Nominee Companies (Malta)
Founder Director of Impetus Europe Consulting Group Ltd (www.impetuseurope.com)
1999 – 2001: Regular columnist on politics and current affairs for Maltese daily In-Nazzjon and Radio 101
2001 – 2003: Regular columnist on politics and current affairs for Malta Independent on Sunday,
2002 – 2004: Regular animator of discussion programmes on politics and current affairs for Smash TV
1997-2002 Consul, Honorary Consul for Lebanon to Malta
1992 -2002 Director of Foundation fro Rehabilitation of Drug Abusers
1999 -2002 Chairman Board of Professions Supplementary to Medicine