Banking & Finance

VanEps Kunneman VanDoorne is the leading law firm in the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba in the area of Banking & Finance. We assist local and international banks and (credit) institutions and counsel them in other key areas such as the financing of mergers and acquisitions, project finance and trade and export financing. The specialists of VanEps Kunneman VanDoorne, typically working in teams, prepare and advise on the required customised lending and security documentation.

We further advise banks and investment institutions on legal and regulatory issues, assist foreign financial institutions in establishing offices in the Netherlands Antilles or Aruba and investment institutions locally and abroad. In addition, we advise on product development by financial institutions, and on questions relating to the securities trade, swaps and derivatives.

The vast growth of the financial sector in the past ten to fifteen years has resulted in the formation of new international financial products. The existing laws and regulations in the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba cannot always be directly applied to these products. We regularly participate in legislative projects to align local laws with these developments.

In the most recent edition of Practical Law Company’s “The PLC Cross – Border Finance: Secured Lending Handbook”, the law firm VanEps Kunneman VanDoorne has been listed as a highly recommended law firm for the Netherlands Antilles in the area of finance, trusts and offshore and its partner Focco Lunsingh Scheurleer has been listed as the only recommended lawyer for the Netherlands Antilles in this area.

The 2008 edition of the PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook of Practical Law Company: VanEps Kunneman VanDoorne, with Focco Lunsingh Scheurleer is considered to be the main player in the trust market.

VanEps Kunneman VanDoorne was i.a. involved in the following transactions:

• Financing of the acquisition of the Netherlands Antilles activities of Mc Donald’s Latin America;
• Restructuring and financing of Digicel, a regional mobile telephone provider on Aruba and Curaçao;
• Financing of a multi million acquisition of an Aruban hotel;
• Pre-export financing of USD 310 million of a Brazilian agricultural company;
• Financing of the acquisition by Bear Stearns Merchant Banking of the Wells Fargo consumer finance subsidiaries in the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba;
• Financing of the government-owned communication company on Aruba;
• Financing of the new airport on Curaçao;
• Re-financing of the state energy facility on Curaçao;
• Financing the Country Aruba by guidance and emission of bonds;
• Bond issue of the state telephone company on Curaçao.

Contacts:

Randolph van Eps
E-mail: eps@ekvandoorne.com
Telephone: +599 9 461 3400 extension 223

Focco Lunsingh Scheurleer
E-mail: lunsingh@ekvandoorne.com
Telephone: +599 9 461 3400 extension 160

Molly Steward
E-mail: steward@ekvandoorne.com
Telephone: +599 9 461 3400 extension 231

Aike Krips
E-mail: krips@ekvandoorne.com
Telephone: +599 9 461 3400 extension 291

Dinesh Sewnandan Mishre
E-mail: mishre@ekvandoorne.com
Telephone: +599 9 461 3400 extension 220