Rachel Vella Baldacchino

Senior Associate
Languages

English, Maltese, German, Italian, French

Location
Rachel Vella Baldacchino
Rachel Vella Baldacchino

Rachel is a senior associate in WH Partners’ Corporate/Commercial team. She is principally a transactional lawyer, focusing her practice on corporate and commercial matters, with a special interest in competition and consumer law advice and corporate financing strategies.

Rachel is a corporate, commercial and competition lawyer.

She focuses her practice on all kinds of corporate transactions and corporate financing matters. She has acted for private and public companies listed in Malta and on other regulated markets.

In addition, she represents businesses before the Maltese Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority, coordinates merger control filings and advises on consumer and product safety law, including food safety.

In addition to being a Maltese advocate, she was admitted to the Roll of Solicitors of England and Wales in 2019.

Rachel graduated from the University of Cambridge with the degree of Master of Corporate Law (MCL) with First Class Honours in 2017, where she is a member of Pembroke College.

She holds an LL.D and an LL.B from the University of Malta. During her studies, Rachel also spent time at the University of Bologna in Italy furthering her legal studies.

She is a member of the Germany-Malta Business Council, operating under the auspices of the Malta Chamber of Commerce.

Rachel started her career in 2014 as a trainee lawyer in the WH team.

Expertise

Rachel Vella Baldacchino specialises in

Corporate and M&A
Banking and Finance
Commercial and Intellectual Property
Capital Markets
Competition & Antitrust
Insolvency & Restructuring

Career Highlights

Advising the global CRM leader on the Maltese competition law aspects of its landmark acquisition of an innovative enterprise communications platform in a deal representing an enterprise value of approximately €27.7 billion
Advising a FTSE 100 company that is one of the world’s largest sports betting and gaming groups operating in the online and retail sector on the Maltese aspects of a number of landmark acquisitions, including its EUR920 million acquisition of a Croatian gaming and sportsbook operator, its £750m acquisition of Poland’s largest sports betting operator, and its acquisition of an online sports brand in Canada for CAD300 million.
Advising a Canadian toymaker and global children’s entertainment company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) on its acquisition of a world-famous toy and iconic brand.

Rankings

She has been ranked by the Legal 500 as a Rising Star for Malta in the Commercial, Corporate and M&A practice area for four years running since 2020.
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