Dr Aron Mifsud Bonnici
Advocate in Malta since 1997. I advise executives on negotiated exits and employers on workforce restructuring.
Profile
I read law at the University of Malta, where I obtained a Diploma of Notary Public in 1995 and the degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) in 1997, the year I became an advocate.
In 2009 I co-founded my own practice, and I have led it since. Today, as Mifsud Bonnici Advisory, it focuses on two kinds of work: executives negotiating their exits, and employers restructuring their workforce. Since 2000 I have also been the independent employment law expert to Malta's largest trade union, which has meant extensive work at the Industrial Tribunal and in collective bargaining.
From 2019 to 2024 I sat as an observer member of the Malta Employment Relations Board, which advises the Government on employment law and policy.
I have negotiated improved terms for the employees affected by collective redundancies at several local and international companies, in iGaming and in manufacturing.
I have acted for employees and their representatives, and for employers. Because much of my career has been spent on the employee side of the table, I know how the other side thinks and where it usually has room to move. Executives use that when they negotiate; employers use it when they plan a restructuring that has to hold up.
I work mostly online. When a meeting helps, we meet in Valletta or at your offices. How I work explains the rest.
LL.D., University of Malta (1997)
Diploma of Notary Public, University of Malta (1995)
Member of the Malta Chamber of Advocates and of NETLEX, the European Employment Law Experts Network
Languages. English and Maltese; fluent Italian; some French and Spanish.
Appointments
- 2009 to date Co-founder and managing partner, own legal practice
- Now Mifsud Bonnici Advisory, focused on executive exits and workforce restructuring. Over twenty years of litigation before the Maltese courts and tribunals.
- 2000 to date Independent employment law expert to Malta's largest trade union
- Collective bargaining, employment policy and Industrial Tribunal litigation. Led the union's team of lawyers and advises a number of its commercial subsidiaries.
- 2000 to date Lecturer and trainer, Reggie Miller Foundation
- Co-manages an employment law training programme, teaching shop stewards and union members Maltese and EU employment law and social policy.
- 2016 to date Co-founder, Community Work Scheme Enterprise Foundation
- A foundation providing employment and vocational training to several hundred disadvantaged workers.
- 2019 to 2024 Observer member, Malta Employment Relations Board
- The statutory tripartite body that advises the Government on employment relations law and policy.
Areas of practice
- Executive exits and settlement agreements
- Restrictive covenants, bonus and share schemes
- Redundancy and collective redundancy
- Transfers of business
- Industrial relations and collective bargaining
- Employment issues in iGaming and financial services
Services: executive exits and restructuring for employers.
On the record
- NetEnt, 2020: how a redundancy package was improved and jobs keptThe negotiation, with the union, that improved the terms for the employees affected and kept jobs.
- Understanding employment rights in Malta: a lecture for GWU shop stewardsFrom the training programme at the Reggie Miller Foundation.
- Tata Motors' Ravi Kant at the CEIBS Executive ForumA panel on leading from the back in a downturn.
Talk it through, in confidence
Tell me briefly where things stand.