Ellul, Marc X.
Head of Corporate & Managing Director
Marc is the Managing Director of Ellul & Cruz and of its associated trust and company management practice., Ellul & Co. Corporate Services. He is also a Notary Public.
Marc began practising in London in 1993 and established himself in Gibraltar in 1995. He was a general practitioner during his early career, undertaking criminal, civil and admiralty litigation, property, corporate and private client work. He is Head of Corporate of Ellul & Cruz and now mainly practises as a corporate, commercial, funds, tax and financial services lawyer.
He also holds a license, issued by the Financial Services Commission, the Gibraltar regulator, to provide directorships for companies, investment funds (Gibraltar Experienced Investor Funds) and to act as a professional trustee. Overall, he has over 30 years’ experience as a lawyer and financial services practitioner.
Marc was Chair of the Gibraltar Finance Centre Council between 2018 and 2021, having served for an exceptional third year to help steer the industry through the challenges of the COVID pandemic. He then served as Vice Chair for an additional year. The Council pays an important role and represents all of Gibraltar’s financial services industry associations. It meets regularly with the financial services Minister, Government officials, the regulator and it has an important role in shaping finance centre policy and legislation.
He was also a member of the COVID Economic Liaison Advisory Committee established by the Gibraltar Government during the pandemic to advise on economic support measures to assist business during this time.
In 2014 Marc was Chairman of the Council’s Company Law Reform Committee which conducted an in-depth review of the Gibraltar Companies Act and made extensive reform proposals. A new Companies Act incorporating the Committee’s recommendations emerged from this and was enacted later that year. A new company law reform committee was established in 2022 and he was also a part of this.
In 2013, as a member of the Technical Committee of the Gibraltar Funds and Investment Association, he formed part of the team that drew up the Code of Conduct for Directors of Gibraltar Experienced Investor Funds. In 2016, Marc formed a part of the Gibraltar Bar Council team which drew up the anti-money laundering guidance notes for Gibraltar legal practitioners.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in English Law and Spanish from Cardiff University, which included a year of Spanish law studies at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. In 2010 he obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Notarial Practice from Cambridge University. In 2018 he was awarded a Professional Certificate of Competence in Gibraltar Tax by the University of Gibraltar which qualifies him to give Gibraltar tax advice.
He is bilingual in English and Spanish.
