1 / 16

The Netherlands Antilles and Aruba

The Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. Focco W. Lunsingh Scheurleer attorney-at-law Conference on Netting of OTC Financial Contracts in Latin America and the Caribbean 10 November 2000 Final Version.

Melvin
Download Presentation

The Netherlands Antilles and Aruba

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The Netherlands Antilles and Aruba Focco W. Lunsingh Scheurleerattorney-at-law Conference on Netting of OTC Financial Contracts in Latin America and the Caribbean 10 November 2000 Final Version

  2. Legislative Issues on Netting, Bankruptcy and Collateral of Securities in theNetherlands Antilles and Aruba

  3. Topics • General information on Netherlands Antilles and Aruba and their law systems • Close out • Set-off • Fraudulent Preference • Conflict of law • Collateral issues and collateralisation of securities

  4. Netherlands Antilles and Aruba • Aruba: separate jurisdiction • Netherlands Antilles: group of five islands in the Caribbean • Kingdom of the Netherlands: the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba

  5. Law System • Civil law jurisdiction • Most important codes: • Civil code • Commercial Code • Bankruptcy Code

  6. Courts • Netherlands Antilles and Aruba: own courts • Netherlands Antilles and Aruba share one Appellate Court, Curaçao • Subject to jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands

  7. Most Important Legal Entities • the company limited by shares (NV: naamloze vennootschap) • For Aruba apart from N.V.: A.V.V. (Aruba exempt company)

  8. Close Out • Bankruptcy code: close-out netting • Suspension of Payments: same applies • Termination clauses are recognised • Contractual provisions not necessary

  9. Insolvency set-off • Insolvency set-off is permitted. Requirements: • Mutuality • Delivery of goods and payment of money can not be set-off • Pre-bankruptcy claims and debts

  10. Fraudulent preference • Close-out netting and insolvency set-off allowed and not fraudulent, exceptions: • Assigned debts/claims and assignee not acting in good faith • Claims or debts assigned after the adjudication of the bankruptcy

  11. Conflict of law • Choice of law recognised

  12. Multibranch Netting Issues • Treatment of local entities with global operations and foreign branches or offices • Treatment of local branches and offices of foreign entities

  13. Collateral Issues • Tangible assets: lex rei sitae • Claims: the law that governs the contract between the assignor/pledgor and the assignee/pledgee • Securities: depends on nature of the security

  14. Collateralisation of Securities • bearer securities: lex rei sitae • non-bearer securities, registered in the name of the investor: • laws of the state in which the issuer has its corporate seat • securities registered in a book entry system: position unclear

  15. Collateralisation of Securities • The law of the first intermediary is advocated in the Netherlands Antilles • Promes Trenité Van Doorne is advising law makers in the Netherlands Antilles

  16. Promes Trenité Van Doorne Focco W. Lunsingh Scheurleer Julianaplein 22 P.O. Box 504 Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles Telephone: + 599 9 461 3400 ext. 160 Telefax: + 599 9 461 2023 lunsinghscheurleer@promes-trenite.com

More Related