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Audit, tax, advisory and outsourcing firm Forvis Mazars in Malta has announced that two of its directors, Ruth Farrugia and Ramon Cutajar, have been co-opted as international Forvis Mazars CARL partners. Rooted in a Belgian legal term for Cooperative à Responsabilité Limité (CARL), CARL partners are equity partners of Forvis Mazars globally, tasked with defining the strategic objectives of the Forvis Mazars Group and coordinating their implementation at member entity level.

As part of its 25th Anniversary celebrations, Mazars in Malta recently hosted an event which saw the participation of clients, stakeholders, and its employees, together with the ambassador of France to Malta H.E. Agnès von der Mühll, Mazars Group CEO and Chairman Hervé Hélias, and Mazars’ Country Monitor for Malta, Florence Pinot. The event was held on the Grand Harbour Terrace of the Mediterranean Conference Centre, offering splendid views of the Grand Harbour in Valletta.

Cyber threats are all around us. This is not paranoia, it’s an unfortunate reality: every day brings new hacks, new data leaks, new embarrassment – and new costs, both financial and commercial. Nobody is spared. The attacks target companies large and small, as well as public-sector institutions and individuals. How can organisations protect themselves?

ENISA, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, and CERT-EU, the CERT of all the EU institutions, have recently issued a list of cybersecurity best practices, and are strongly encouraging all public and private sector companies in the EU to adopt them in order to safeguard themselves from the continuous threat level.

As we are a few days away from the 31st January 2023-deadline imposed upon Member States to transpose EU Directive 2017/1132 on cross-border conversions, mergers and divisions (the “Directive”), it is worth-shedding light on the implications of the Directive prior to it being implemented into Maltese law.