We have a reputation as the region’s erudite centre of legal and market developments. We probably have the largest legal library in the Dutch Caribbean and we have access to many international databases.
Also, we have more lecturers than any other firm and we invest highly in the training of our people. We proudly share our vast knowledge base as it continues to develop in the Practice Areas, via our publications, participation in committees and several regional and international magazines.
Publications
Amendments to the Civil Code of Curacao
On January 1, 2012, thirteen state ordinances have taken effect for Curaçao, with which a second phase in the project to introduce a new Civil Code in Curaçao has been completed.
Creating the new Dutch Caribbean – Curacao, BES Islands and Aruba
The latest edition of the FSC Report 2012 has been published and includes an article from Robert van Beemen VanEps Kunneman VanDoorne and Jaap Roks KPMG: “Creating the new Dutch Caribbean – Curacao, BES Islands and Aruba”.Read the entire publication here.
Natural resources from Africa: the Great Game of the 21st century
Dirk Ormel wrote his master thesis on the illegal exploitation of natural resources in the Congo. He is co-author of the article “Grondstoffen uit Afrika: Great Game van de 21ste eeuw” that was published this month in the Internationale Spectator, the monthly journal on international politics of the Dutch Institute for International Relations “Clingendael” in The Hague.
Rechtsgeleerd Magazijn Themis
In the first edition of 2012 of the Dutch legal journal “Rechtsgeleerd Magazijn Themis” (consider RM Themis 2012/1), George Driessen, attorney at law at VanEps Kunneman VanDoorne published an article about the nature and meaning of the gesture of oath and pledge. This article provides both a further elaboration on his previous article on the same subject in aforesaid journal (consider RM Themis 2011/1), and a postscript to a reaction by prof. J. Roest to aforesaid article of Driessen from 2011.
Read more...The Antilles political reforms and the consequences for financial supervision.
On March 17, 2011, NIBE SVV organized a seminar/afternoon seminar at ING in Amsterdam with the theme “Financial sector and international private law”.
Read more...The (im)possibilties of the trust
The (im)possibilties of the trust constitutes part of the double issue 2010, issues 3-4 of the Magazine for Antilles Law – Justicia (TAR-Justicia).
Read more...50 questions on corporate governance in government owned limited liability companies and foundations on the islands of the Netherlands Antilles
On the occasion of the introduction of its new name in July of 2006, the law firm VanEps Kunneman VanDoorne conceived the plan to present the public legal entity the Netherlands Antilles, the various island territories and the public legal entity Aruba.
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40 questions on corporate governance in government owned limited liability companies and foundations in Aruba
On the occasion of the introduction of its new name, the law firm VanEps Kunneman VanDoorne has conceived the plan to present the public legal entity the Netherlands Antilles, the various island territories and the public legal entity Aruba.
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De betekenis en oorsprong van ‘ons eedsgebaar’; enkele pennenstreken
'Curacao, the Netherlands Antilles and the Kingdom: a look through the constitutional prism'
Ben Gardner and Jeremias Prassl (Harvard Law School LL.M. Class of 2009) in January of 2009 spent three weeks travelling all over Curacao to discuss the upcoming constitutional changes.
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