Acumum Legal Group consists of Maltese, UK & International

Lawyers & Accountants

Providing Multi – Jurisdictional Advice & Services

Managing Partner:

Geraldine Noel; B.A (Hons)(Oxford), PG Dip, LLM (Fordham)

Acumum’s services and operations are overseen by its Managing Partner, Geraldine Noel, a UK barrister, registered in Malta.

Geraldine a native of England and a US permanent resident, has substantial international experience, having worked in the US, Switzerland and the Cayman Islands over a 20 year career, providing legal, tax and corporate services to multi-national financial, insurance and technology corporations.

Geraldine’s specialties are financial services, intellectual property, gaming, taxation, corporate and private client.

Geraldine was acknowledged by the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) as being the first ever recipient of a grant of a trademark for virtual goods & services during her employment with the world’s 1st gaming sporting virtual world (an MMORPG).

Geraldine began her legal career way back in 1990, managing Barrister’s Chambers in the UK – multi – million £ law firms; she understands the administrative and organisational requirements of managing multiple clients, attorneys and other service professionals.

It is Geraldine’s vision that the Acumum Legal Group is a provider of excellence, of relevant and business focused services to its clients.

Geraldine’s Qualifications:

  • Masters in Intellectual Property & Information Technology Law; Fordham University of Law (New York, New York)
  • BA (Hons) Oxford University
  • Post Graduate Diploma, Legal Practice; Inns of Court School of Law (London)

Leading Lawyer:

Dr. Andreas O’Shea; LL.B (Hons), Lic. Spec. (Louvain), Ph.D (Wits)

Andreas practices in the UK, Malta and before international Courts and Tribunals. Andreas’ legal experience also extends to the EU, particularly Belgium, France, as well as Libya and South Africa. Andreas has acted in a number of major war crimes trials before the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the Special Court for Sierra Leone.

Andreas offers advice and assistance on:

Andreas has taught and published extensively in the field of International Law and is the author of:

  • International Law and Organisation: a Practical Analysis, (1998)
  • Amnesty for Crime in International Law and Practice, (2001)
Partner; Outsourcing
David Chamberlin
A dual Swiss/American citizen, David has practiced as a lawyer in the United States, Europe, and Asia for just under 10 years.  Upon graduating from law school, David immediately joined a national law firm based out of Washington, D.C., and spent several years in the firm’s San Francisco office handling complex commercial transactions.  He also operated as a legal consultant in Europe (primarily Germany) advising on regulatory compliance matters.  David continued to build on his contract and compliance expertise by becoming the contract manager for one of the world’s leading (Band-1) pure-play Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) companies.
Working out of India,  David extended open-ended global transactional support to a host of Fortune 500 companies using offshore legal teams; managed international compliance programs; built a legal research offering; and designed workflows to rightsize legal spend.  David now exclusively focuses on disaggregating legal work for corporations and law firms to identify outsourcing solutions, reduce legal costs and optimize in-house resource allocation.
David’s areas of specialization are legal services outsourcing and legal process outsourcing with an emphasis on transactional solutions, corporate restructuring, and compliance;  law department operation management; legal research; risk management; and contract management.
Qualifications
  • B.A., magna cum laude, in English/German/Philosophy from Bellarmine University (U.S.) and University of Fribourg
  • J.D., cum laude, University of Maryland School of Law
  • Bar Admission to California State Courts, all California Federal Courts and the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
     

Chartered Accountant:

Paul Gostelow

Paul is a Chartered Accountant and holds a law degree from Birmingham University.
Having worked for many years for members of the ‘Big Four’ audit & accountancy firms mainly in Eastern Europe & Italy, Paul is a highly experienced Financial Manager with a proven track record of success within the manufacturing, B2B, IT, telecommunications, entertainment, commercial and not for profit market sectors.
Paul has lived and worked in Malta for many years – advising UK and international individuals, as well as existing and start-up companies in appropriate asset, corporate & tax efficient structuring.
  • Financial management
  • Outsourced bookkeeping and payroll
  • Implementation of s302 and s404 Sarbanes-Oxley compliance in Europe for quoted companies
  • Documentation of processes, flowcharting, identification and testing of key controls, remediation of control weaknesses, reporting and documenting conclusions and embedding compliance as business as usual
  • Internal audit projects
  • Consolidation and other accounting services
  • Establishing credit control procedures
  • Fraud risk assessments and remediation. Other special projects and investigations
  • ISO 9001 projects

Paul is also completing the examination to become a Certified Fraud Examiner

Legal & Organisational Memberships 

  • Bar Council of England & Wales since 2002
  • Chamber of Advocates, Malta
  • American Bar Association, Associate Member since 2001
  • Chartered Institute of Taxation
  • Malta Maritime Lawyers Association
  • Nautical Institute
  • Maltese Association for European Law Studies
  • International Bar Association
  • Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners