Member Profiles

Quarterback was founded by experienced executives with the aim to provide tailor-made specialist advice and education programs for financial institutions as well as corporate clients in the area of innovative trade finance solutions. Quarterback works globally with multinationals, commercial banks, factoring companies, funds and alternative financiers. Quarterback will facilitate implementation of products for financial institutions to provide secure finance for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME-s) by using specialist products such as Factoring, Invoice Discounting, Forfaiting, Asset Based Lending and Structured Commodity Financing. Quarterback helps in all critical areas to develop plans and achieve goals

Practice Areas - Succession Law, Business & Corporate Law, Shipping law, Property & Development Law, Private International law, Employment & Labour law, General Civil Law, and General Commercial & Civil litigation. Career path & other posts - Admitted to the Bar in 1996. In 2011 co-founded IURIS Malta. Previous posts include Chairman of Board of Special Commissioners, adviser to Ministry for Economic Services, & Ministry for Communication & Competitiveness, Secretary to the Co-operatives Board. Languages – Fluent Maltese, English, Italian and a working knowledge of French

David Tonna has over 30 years experience in assisting domestic and international clients in Corporate law and Governance, Trusts services, Financial Services, Banking and Finance, General Commercial, Maritime and Aviation, Intellectual Property and Anti-counterfeiting, and Immigration.

Dr Franklin Cachia holds the position of Director – Tax & Regulated Industries at CSB Group. His primary practice areas include: Taxation; Investment Services; VFA; AML/CFT; Commercial & Corporate; M&As; Employment; Trusts and Foundations; Secondary Areas include: Gaming, Residency and Citizenship, GDPR, Civil, Property. 

Born in 1969 and a practising advocate since 1996, Luigi heads the firm. European Patent Attorney, Malta Council Member of the European Patent Institute (EPI) and of the European Communities Trademark Association (ECTA), overseas member of the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (ITMA) in the United Kingdom, and a member of MARQUES, AIPPI, the International Trade Mark Association (INTA) and the Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group (PTMG). Luigi is a member of the Anti-Counterfeiting committees of INTA (EU Division) and ECTA, as well as on the Professional Affairs committee of ECTA. Languages: English, Maltese, Italian and French.