Andrei Vella and Steve Decesare will join the current six partners at Camilleri Preziosi law firm, with effect from January 1, 2018.

Dr Vella will be admitted as a partner in the firm’s corporate and finance practice group with responsibilities for banking and finance, areas in which he has been specialising over the years at the firm.

He read law at the University of Malta from where he graduated as a Doctor of Laws in 2008 and subsequently at University College London where he graduated with an LL.M. in international banking and finance in 2009. Dr Vella joined the firm in 2008 and became a senior associate in 2014.

Dr Decesare will be admitted as a partner in the firm’s regulatory, EU and litigation practice group within the firm and specialises in public procurement, maritime and aviation law. He joined the firm in 2007 as a trainee and was appointed as a senior associate in 2014. He read law at the University of Malta graduating with an LL.D. in 2008 and subsequently obtained an LL.M. in Commercial Law in 2009 from the University of Edinburgh where he studied banking and finance, debt and insolvency law, company law and EC competition law.

A senior partner in the firm said: “Dr Vella and Dr Decesare joined the firm when they were trainees, and it is gratifying to see the results of a clear and sustained strategy of organic growth within the firm bear fruit with yet two other lawyers, who grew and developed within the firm from a very young age, being admitted to partnership.

“We have always been firm believers in organic growth where our people share our core values and work ethic as well as our commitment to provide our clients with a high calibre and dedicated service, our unique approach to the practice of law; and a working style that has come to distinguish us as the firm best placed to look after our clients’ interests.”