Alecta Advisors

Alecta Advisors is a boutique business advisory firm in Mosta, in the centre of Malta. It brings together experienced specialists in finance, business and risk management, and its work covers corporate finance, risk advisory, deal structuring and business strategy. The firm was founded in 2017 and is led by Anita Aloisio, a warranted accountant and auditor with more than 25 years of experience.

For a UK business owner, investor or adviser looking at Malta, the firm offers a smaller, more personal alternative to a large network. It is the kind of practice to approach when you are raising funds, buying or selling a company, planning for the next generation of a family business, or checking that your internal controls are sound. Although it is listed alongside mortgage advisors in Malta, its focus is business advisory rather than home loans.

Who Alecta Advisors is

Its core principles are honesty, integrity, reliability and trust, and it works with clients as if their business were its own. The aim is to be at the forefront of advisory work in terms of quality and professionalism, providing problem solving support that strengthens profitability and builds long term relationships.

Clients served since 2017 have returned with further projects, and the practice leans on teamwork, ethical behaviour and listening closely to what each client needs. The team is multi-disciplinary: the most senior staff and regular collaborators hold an accountancy or business degree at Master's level or higher, with hands-on experience of leading businesses in the private and public sectors, in Malta and abroad. Junior colleagues are all reading for an accountancy or business related degree, and the team keeps up with new technology, which it discusses with owners to help improve how their operations run.

Corporate finance, valuations and due diligence

Corporate finance is the firm's first main line of service. Short and long term financing of large investments is central to raising shareholder value, and the corporate finance team looks at the routes open for raising and recovering funds in the most efficient way. Alecta gives objective financial and strategic advice from the start to the end of a transaction, including identifying the best source of funds and helping clients secure attractive terms.

Business valuations establish the present value of a company by looking at its underlying assets, organisation and operations. Alecta is engaged to support investment analysis during mergers and acquisitions, using standard industry recognised methods and staying independent and at arm's length from all parties. Financial due diligence works alongside this: clients ask the firm to assess the financial effect of a possible acquisition, including the assets held, liabilities, other obligations, risks and opportunities, and receive focused reports prepared by independent professionals.

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Business planning, feasibility and family business succession

Alecta helps clients to create a blueprint for a business over the short and long term. That involves assessing the business and its target market, carrying out SWOT and PESTEL analyses and calculating the financial returns, and it produces practical, ready to use business plans against which action can be implemented, monitored and measured. Each planned action is tested for return on investment, so that money is not spent on projects that drain value rather than add it.

Feasibility studies investigate planned activities, compute the projected rate of return and give an independent opinion on whether a prospective project is viable. Family business services and succession planning address a different concern: family firms often focus on resilience and on keeping the business for future generations. The firm advises on organisational structure, core processes, making key information available, decision making routines and human resource development, including performance indicators, so that the business can be handed on in better shape.

Business transformation work reviews internal processes. The team flow charts a process, identifies bottlenecks and gaps that hold back growth or add cost, and recommends changes. Anyone planning a move, or setting up a company, may also find our Malta relocation guide and guide to Malta tax for UK nationals a helpful starting point.

Risk advisory, governance and mergers and acquisitions

Governance, risk and compliance reviews examine whether directors, management and staff act with integrity in line with laws and regulations, and whether the organisation can reliably achieve its objectives. The firm draws out weaknesses and recommends improvements.

Risk advisory, including internal audit, begins with a risk assessment across the whole entity. The team examines internal processes for areas of exposure, builds a risk register and proposes workable ways to reduce risk. Internal audit then gives the client assurance that processes are monitored regularly and that problems are dealt with early. The firm also designs and carries out business strategy, building on strengths and opportunities while dealing with weaknesses and threats.

In mergers and acquisitions, Alecta supports clients before the transaction, through discussions and negotiation and into the final phase, where it helps review the closing contracts. Its aim is to identify potential complications early, so that growth and profitability are not damaged in the long term by a poorly steered deal.

Industries and how engagements are delivered

Alecta works in a wide range of sectors, including construction and real estate, financial services, funds, gaming, hospitality, ICT and media, insurance, manufacturing, public sector, relocation services, retail, shipping and yachting, tourism and transport. If you operate in a sector such as online gaming, you may wish to read our iGaming in Malta guide first.

Engagements are divided into measurable parts: data gathering, analysis, validation, presentation of outcomes and reporting. Typical deliverables include business plans, due diligence reports, valuations, feasibility studies, succession plans, restructured company costs, entity wide risk assessments, reengineered processes, improved governance and internal controls, and key performance measures.

Leadership and team

Anita Aloisio is the founding business leader. She specialises in business reform and restructuring, with experience in strategic and business planning, corporate finance, operational management, risk advisory, EU funding and cost control. After senior management and advisory roles in the private and public sectors, she built the advisory service line of a mid-tier audit firm, which won Advisory Firm of the Year from the International Accounting Bulletin in 2015, a first for Malta. She was also named top entrepreneur and corporate financier of the year in 2014.

Kevin Mifsud leads internal audit. He has more than 25 years of experience in software development, banking, construction and telecommunications, with a bachelor's degree in accountancy and an MBA, and has led projects in Europe and the Americas. Nicole Pavia Aloisio has been administrator since the firm began, handling the setting up of its administrative function, payroll, finances and accounts on a part-time basis.

Where to find the firm and how to start

The firm is at 22 Vjal l-Indipendenza in Mosta. Mosta is close to Mdina, so a meeting can easily be combined with a visit described in our Mdina guide, and our page on hotels in Mdina and Rabat suggests places to stay nearby. For more background on the island as a business base, see our about Malta page.

Other advisory firms on VisitMalta.co.uk include AE Business Advisors and ARQ Group Malta, which you may wish to compare. To start a conversation with Alecta Advisors, use the VisitMalta.co.uk enquiry form on this page and we will pass your message to the firm.