Ship Finance / Ship Registration / Corporate Law.

Mark Fenech is a Consultant 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 Maltese 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 vessels.

• 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) • Chairman of Scandinavian Business Forum – Malta (a body forming part of the Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry) • 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.

Consultant

• 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.