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Abalone Services Ltd is a Company Service Provider (CSP) licensed by the MFSA that provides regulatory, operational, legal and advisory services and roles to an international clientele.
We also provides legal and structuring services, with a particular focus on European investment funds and securitisation vehicle, to third-party Investment Managers, Advisors, Family Offices, Wealth Managers, MiFID Firms, Securitisation Cell Companies and any other entity that needs support in identifying and structuring the most suitable investment solution.
Services
Abalone Asset Management LTD provides investment management, risk management and distribution services for investment funds from Malta. Our team deals with wealth managers, family offices, distributors, start-ups, hedge funds and investment managers to create and run dedicated investment funds and solutions across Europe.
Our Team
José Luis Villar Martín
Jose has been working in the Maltese investment Services Industry since 2014, joining Custom House as Legal Officer. Then, he moved to the Capital Markets Department at Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates. Before joining Abalone Asset Management in 2019, he has served as Senior Legal and Compliance Officer at Apex Fund Services (Malta) Limited. He holds a bachelor’s in Law by the University Carlos III de Madrid and a master’s degree in International Relations with major studies Business internationalization by the Diplomatic School of Spain.
Roberto Colapinto
Founder of all companies of Abalone group, Roberto helds several important roles in his working experience. In 2013 he was Head of Regional Coverage responsible for Southern Europe and Latin America for Credit Agricole and in 2007 he served as General Manager Edmond de Rothschild Europe for Milan branch.
Andrea Maria Vittorio Venturini
Andrea started his career in the real estate sector as a private property manager, later he became Financial Controller in a certification body for public contractors. Once graduated at the Bocconi University, he got the Ph.D. in Statistics and Applied Mathematics to Economics and a Second Level Master in Finance at the University of Turin.
Edoardo Grigione
Edoardo is an expert in financial markets, with strong commercial and technical skills, able to create solid business relationships, with a demonstrated history of working in the investment management industry for more than 20 years. Strong institutional sales skills and network development. Business vision, technical competencies, and hard work are the 3 key factors in his professional life.
Giuseppe Ghezzi
With nearly 40 years of experience within capital markets, Giuseppe's trading structure runs mainly through arbitraged hedged-option equity volatility positionig among the time curve,call warrant or option-hedged portfolio on single names, event driven, special situation (capital issue, convertible arbitrage)
Paul Magro
Dr Paul Magro has been involved in the financial services industry for over a decade across various segments. After completing his PhD in Finance at the University of Bangor in 2013 he founded RiskCap. He is considered to be one the leading professionals in Malta within Risk Management and Compliance. Dr Magro has been engaged to sit on boards, act as the risk manager and compliance officer to various financial services firms. Also being engaged on project-related tasks with implementation of governance/risk management/compliance frameworks.
Ilaria De Paulis
Ilaria De Paulis started her career at Abalone Asset Management Ltd as Administrative Assistant. Ilaria holds a Bachelor degree in Economics and Business Administration from the LUMSA University.
Riccardo Teodori
Since 2014 he was managing partner of Nord Credit, an Italian company specialized in financial analysis and negotiation with banking institutions. He has over 6 years experience as quantitative professional trader developing mechanical trading strategies. Since 2012 he has acted as director, investment committee member and portfolio manager of a number of funds in Malta.
Funds
Abalone Asset Management currently manages over 20 investment funds, among which liquid and illiquid alternative strategies, investing in real asset and private equity, and UCITS funds.
Services
Investment Funds Structuring
We aim at supporting our clients in the structuring of the most suitable investment vehicle for their needs. Thanks to the broad experience of our international team, we cover most of the European and some of the off shore investment funds domicile. Our turnkey solutions allow the clients to delegate in full the structuring project to us. Since our inception we have structured more than 10 different types of investments funds in more than 5 different investment domiciles.
Fund Manager Structuring
Being Malta a rising financial jurisdiction we have decided to help people who would like to relocate their investment management and advisory business to Malta, with the legal work taking care of all the authorisation process by the local financial authority. We also offer a complete support to the new business operations, once the authorization is obtained. Our goal is to facilitate the relocation of foreigners’ business, in order to attract as many talented investment professionals as possible in our rising financial centre.
Corporate Service
Abalone Services is a full Corporate Services Provider registered with the Malta Financial Services Authority. Our Corporate team works closely with clients to achieve their immediate and long-term corporate objectives. The team focuses on delivering strategies and outcomes to meet the needs of our clients in a prompt and efficient manner. Abalone offers the following corporate services: corporate structuring, company formation and administration, corporate governance practices and procedures, accounting services, compliance services, operations and bank account opening services.
Fund Services
We offer comprehensive support services for investment funds, as a result of our deep experience in the industry and are able to deliver expertise in fulfilling all corporate governance and secretarial functions, including: directorship services, compliance officer services, MLRO services, corporate secretarial services and registered office services.
Legal Support
We have developed deep expertise in the Maltese legal framework applicable to the investment services world. We help our clients in dealing with the day to day legal issues as well as with the extraordinary corporate transactions, which require deep knowledge of the applicable legal framework.
Securitisation Vehicle Structuring
In keeping pace with the financial markets evolution, we have developed expertise in the structuring of securitization vehicles in Malta and Luxembourg, including the structuring project management and the legal work execution.
Private Clients
Our Relocation Services Department is targeted both for individuals and businesses, we guide corporations and HNWIs to relocate to Malta. Malta offers a robust legal framework that allows individuals and families to obtain the Maltese citizenship or residency under the following investment programmes: the Malta Individual Investor Programme (MIIP) www.iip.gov.mt, the Malta Residence and Visa Programme (MRVP) and the Global Residence Programme (GRP).