WH Partners has won the Malta Law Firm of the Year 2023 Award at the Who’s Who Legal Awards hosted by global legal research platform Lexology in London on 9th November 2023.

This is the second time that WH Partners has won this award.

James Scicluna, WH Partners Co-Founder and Managing Partner commented: “It is a source of great satisfaction and pride for our firm to receive this award for the second time. The integrity and stature of Who’s Who Legal coupled with the fact that our efforts are recognised alongside top ranking firms across the globe make this award that much more special to us.”

Since 1996, Who’s Who Legal has identified the foremost legal practitioners in multiple areas of business law. It features over 24,000 of the world’s leading private practice lawyers and 2,500 consulting experts from over 150 national jurisdictions. The organisation prides itself on its integrity and solidity of its findings, and so buying entry into the publication is impossible.

Each year, Who’s Who Legal presents awards to individuals and firms that have performed exceptionally well. After an in-depth assessment of its findings, Who’s Who Legal identifies a lawyer and a firm of the year in each of the featured practice areas. The award-winning firms are officially announced in over 70 jurisdictions.

To date, four of WH Partners’ lawyers are listed in Who’s Who Legal: James Scicluna, Olga Finkel, Joseph F. Borg, and Robert Skalina.

The 2023 awards ceremony was hosted by global legal research platform Lexology. Proceeds from the awards ceremony dinner were donated to the Swawou School for Girls in Sierra Leone.

WH Partners has its roots in 2006, when Olga Finkel started a law practice called WH Law. WH Partners was then formed in 2012, when she and James Scicluna formed a partnership based on their shared vision of a “modern multidisciplinary practice, providing world-class advice” and “having best in class practice management”. Today, it has over 80 staff, including 20 lawyers, a number of tax accountants, professional corporate service staff and support staff.