About Us

Vassallo Associates is a team of dedicated, experienced professionals with an established heritage in Malta, where we have been providing surveying and advisory services to the maritime industry since 1870*.

With the addition of a UK-based operations hub, we have developed to become a specialist GRC consultancy practice, with an enhanced capability to provide a portfolio of Operational Improvement, Security and Resiliency services aligned to ISO Management Standards and good industry practice.

These services support a select portfolio of clients operating across multiple jurisdictions and industry sectors.

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Developing together

 
Our success is dependent on our people and the values they stand for, which is why we seek to attract only the highest calibre of associates and consultants, each with established expertise in their respective fields.

We have six core values that our associates and consultants believe in and live by:

Vassallo Associates’ people are safe, ethical, innovative, responsive, quality and cost-conscious, and driven to deliver in all that they do.

Vassallo Associates stands for technical excellence, delivering services of the highest quality. We know that those standards would not be possible without the commitment, and dedication of our people. That’s why our People Excellence strategy supports their career progression and rewards their success as they shape ours.

We believe that united we are a stronger organisation and that every single person regardless of role, location or length of service, contributes to the well-being of our success. Together we can achieve your goals.

Mistakes have huge impacts. As expert consultants, our clients trust us to help them operate their assets effectively and safely.

Our ‘Right First Time’ initiative focuses our people’s attention on the importance of ensuring that we achieve the needs of every client and provide them with the tools to achieve that goal.

We treat quality, like safety, as a mandatory requirement in our work. We make it everyone’s responsibility and strive to get it right the first time.

*Since 1870

The firm H. Vassallo was established in 1870 as a private company by Henry Vassallo, a prominent businessman at a time when business activities in Malta were carried out by a very limited number of people. Since its early days the firm was involved in the marine and insurance fields.

Existing records show that on the 20 June 1910, Charles, son of Henry Vassallo, officially joined the firm he took over completely after his father passed away. The firm initially traded as A. Duncan & Co and in fact an extract from LLOYD MALTESE No. 31,767 of Friday, February 16, 1940, makes reference to that firm. Subsequently, following the war effort, the company continued trading as H. Vassallo and eventually took on a leading maritime role in Malta. Interestingly, the firm still retains in its library a good number of hand-written correspondence dating back to 1800 with the then Hull Clubs.

The firm is today managed by John Bugeja, a maritime lawyer by profession, and operates out of offices in Valletta (Malta) and London (UK).

The firm remains very closely involved in providing risk and claims management services to the marine field but has evolved into a specialist Governance, Risk and Compliance practice that helps businesses across multiple sectors identify, assess and mitigate against risks affecting their operations in the areas of safety, environmental, quality, and security concerns.