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Special Feature: Malta’s Best in Business Awards<br />
Malta Business Review<br />
<strong>MBR</strong>: What is the secret to the success of<br />
Micallef & Ellul Advocates?<br />
VM: Micallef & Ellul Advocates believes<br />
that the values of commitment, reliability<br />
and excellence form the basis upon which<br />
every success story is built. However,<br />
whilst keeping these values at its core,<br />
the firm believes that the key to success<br />
in its profession is client satisfaction.<br />
This is fully achieved by listening and<br />
comprehending to the clients’ needs<br />
so as to find the best possible tailormade<br />
solution. It is precisely that<br />
customer satisfaction which attracts<br />
more clients. Clients retain and<br />
recommend the firm’s services, thus<br />
becoming the firm’s ambassadors in this<br />
increasingly competitive industry. From its<br />
inception, the firm realised that placing its<br />
clients at the centre of its activities was<br />
significant for its establishment in the legal<br />
community as we know it today.<br />
<strong>MBR</strong>: How do you define what your<br />
focus is today?<br />
AL: Our focus at Micallef & Ellul Advocates<br />
is very much based on the prevalent<br />
modern ideology that being successful<br />
does no longer depend on the size of<br />
human or physical resources, but is all<br />
about having a solid and reliable network<br />
which delivers. The firm’s aim is not to<br />
compete with other law firms on the basis<br />
of employing more and more resources.<br />
On the contrary, the firm is focused on<br />
remaining a boutique law-firm albeit with<br />
a difference, that is by expanding the<br />
practice through extensive outsourcing<br />
and networking arrangements with the<br />
right individuals. With this in mind, the<br />
firm has started to promote its legal<br />
services abroad, such as in Dubai, Lebanon,<br />
Jordan, China and South Africa. The quest<br />
to constantly seek alternative channels<br />
of doing business and the ability to seize<br />
the opportunity when it presents itself,<br />
reflects itself in the internationalisation of<br />
new services being offered by the firm.<br />
<strong>MBR</strong>: Does Micallef & Ellul Advocates<br />
have a specific sector expertise or do<br />
you have broad expertise across all<br />
sectors when it comes to delivering legal<br />
solutions and advice?<br />
AL: Whilst understanding that nowadays<br />
law firms may be better off when<br />
specialising in a particular field of law,<br />
thereby enhancing the competitive<br />
advantages applicable to that specific field,<br />
Micallef & Ellul Advocates has purposely<br />
chosen to position the firm as a boutique<br />
law firm in such a way as to create value to<br />
its clientele - thus differentiating the level<br />
of service from that of other larger and<br />
longer established law firms.<br />
<strong>MBR</strong>: Do you consider the recent<br />
prestigious award as ‘Malta's Best-in-<br />
Business Law Firm of the Year Award’<br />
as a recognition of the Micallef & Ellul<br />
Advocates business model?<br />
VM: The firm’s professional approach<br />
together with the values it upholds,<br />
coupled with the constant drive to further<br />
improve its already reputable standards,<br />
makes Micallef & Ellul Advocates a lawfirm<br />
worthy of the recognition it received.<br />
This recognition will undoubtedly serve<br />
as a further incentive towards the firm’s<br />
strategic direction, that to become one of<br />
the island’s premier legal and consultancy<br />
firms. We intend to continue doing what<br />
we do best, like we did 10 years ago when<br />
planning for where we are today! The<br />
‘Malta’s Best-in- Business Law Firm of the<br />
Year Award 2016’ was definitely a moral<br />
boost to all of us. <strong>MBR</strong><br />
All rights reserved / Copyright 2016<br />
The Management and team of Micallef & Ellul Advocates at the<br />
Malta Best-in-Business Awards<br />
Corporate<br />
Brief<br />
Established in 2007, Micallef & Ellul<br />
Advocates is a multi-disciplinary law-firm<br />
based in Malta. It operates from Valletta,<br />
Malta’s Capital City, and the firm’s mission<br />
is to provide its clients with pristine service.<br />
The practise ranges from Consultancy<br />
services to Litigation, and each of the firm’s<br />
department is manned by Legal Consultants<br />
of the highest calibre. The firm prides itself<br />
in having a number of reputable local and<br />
international partners. Its mission is to<br />
remain as a boutique law-firm and not to<br />
compete with other law firms on the basis<br />
of employing more and more resources.<br />
On the contrary, the firm aims to continue<br />
enhancing its practice through extensive<br />
outsourcing and networking arrangements<br />
with the right people.<br />
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