Henley & Partners was “prepared” for the potential launch of a Malta passport sales scheme to rich foreigners months before a public call for the scheme was issued in 2013, leaked documents from the Passport Papers reveal. A few weeks after Labour shot to power in March 2013, Henley & Partners hired lawyer Adrian Camilleri to look into “procurement issues relating to the establishment of a citizenship-by-investment scheme in Malta”. The government notice, dated April 2013, came two months prior to a public call for a “consultant” to advise on and operate such a scheme was published by the government. RELATED STORIES Rival bidders Arton Capital had filed a legal case against the government alleging an “abusive” process that led to Henley winning the concession, saying they had an unfair advantage because they had already acted as advisers on such schemes before the call was made. The case was settled out of court in 2015.