Julian Bajada Pacta sunt servanda and smart contracts: is code law?
Julian Bajada joined Camilleri Preziosi Advocates in 2015 and was appointed as a Junior Associate in January 2019. Julian assists across the firm’s Corporate & Finance practice groups, contributing principally to the firm’s Capital Markets, Banking, Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Financial Services Regulation practices, specialising in debt and equity issues on the main market of the Malta Stock Exchange, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, bank financing, corporate structuring, and advises both local and international clientele on general commercial and corporate law and regulatory matters. Julian has also assisted on a number of matters involving innovative technologies, such as distributed ledger technologies, digital banking and the wider Fintech space. During the course of his studies abroad, Julian was also engaged as an intern at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance and was involved in a number of research-based and projectbased initiatives, collaborating with industry stakeholders and start-ups in the Regtech and Fintech industries. Julian was admitted to the bar in 2018, having graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Masters of Corporate Law (MCL. Cantab) (First Class), submitting a case study paper on “Legal Risk Management in Mergers & Acquisitions’. Prior to his studies abroad, Julian successfully completed the Masters in Advocacy (M.A. Adv) degree at the University of Malta, and the LL.B (Hons) degree at the same university, submitting a dissertation entitled ‘Pulling in the Crowd - Establishing regulatory framework for Equity Crowdfunding in Malta?’. He is also undergoing the final stages of his studies leading to the ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) professional qualification. Julian was ranked as an ‘Advocate to watch’ in the Chambers & Partners Fintech Guide 2020. Outside his professional life, Julian is an avid sport enthusiast and is currently the Secretary General of the Malta Paralympic Committee, the national governing body for Paralympic Sport in Malta.