Ganado Advocates

Who Ganado Advocates Is

Ganado Advocates is a leading Maltese law firm founded in 1951, and is based in Valletta, Malta. Having contributed directly over several decades towards creating and enhancing Malta’s hard-won reputation as a reliable and effective international centre for financial and maritime services, they seek to provide high standards of legal advisory services in a wide spectrum of international commercial and corporate activities. The firm has grown and adapted itself over the years to meet the changing needs of the international business and legal community. With a team of over one hundred lawyers and professionals from other disciplines, supported by a growing complement of committed managerial, administrative and clerical assistants, they continue offering excellent client service and legal analysis, pragmatic solutions and attention to detail.

The firms practice areas are: aviation, banking and finance, capital markets, competition and antitrust, construction, corporate and commercial, data protection and privacy, employment, energy and renewable energy, financial crime advisory, fintech and blockchain, financial services regulation, governance, insurance and reinsurance, intellectual property, media and technology, investment services and funds, litigation and dispute resolution, merchant shipping, pensions, private client, public procurement, restructuring and insolvency, sustainability and ESG, tax, and yachts and superyachts.

Gaming is not listed as a separate practice area. The firm is a legal adviser, not a licensed gaming entity or corporate service provider, and its point of contact for Gamblers Connect is partner Paul Micallef Grimaud.

How They Work

Ganado does not sell a gaming package. What it offers is the practice groups an operator or supplier in Malta ends up needing, under one roof. Of its 25 practice areas, these are the ones that map directly onto the industry.

Financial Services Regulation, Fintech and Blockchain

Regulatory advice for financial services businesses, including the fintech and blockchain work relevant to payment providers serving operators and to operators running crypto rails.

Financial Crime Advisory

Advisory work on anti money laundering frameworks and related compliance, an area every licensed operator and payment provider has to maintain.

Data Protection and Privacy

GDPR compliance and privacy work, relevant to any operator handling player identity, payment and behavioural data.

Intellectual Property, Media and Technology

Trade mark, design and IP work alongside media and technology matters, the group that protects a brand or a game title and enforces it.

Corporate, Employment and Disputes

Corporate and commercial, governance, employment for Malta based teams, and litigation and dispute resolution, with the Luxembourg office extending corporate and funds work into a second EU jurisdiction.

The iGaming Angle

What separates Ganado from a gaming boutique is scale and range. Gaming is not a listed practice at the firm, but the areas an operator or supplier actually spends legal budget on are: financial services regulation, fintech and blockchain, financial crime advisory, data protection and privacy, intellectual property, corporate and employment.

For a buyer, the practical read is that the same firm can handle the regulatory question, the data protection audit, the trade mark dispute and the employment contracts without referring the work out, and that it does so from a full service Maltese firm with a Luxembourg office rather than a single practice consultancy.

How deep the gaming specific experience runs is something a prospective client should ask the firm directly, since it is not something its published practice list sets out.

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