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Leading in LawActing as OneAcross the Globe

Our Firm

Founded in 1937, VANEPS is a full-service law firm with offices in Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba, and Sint Maarten, now extending its reach to the Netherlands.

The firm advises and represents clients across all of these legal systems, as well as in Suriname, primarily serving larger national and international corporations, financial institutions, executives, and high-net-worth individuals.

Our passion is to tangibly contribute to our clients’ objectives, with advice and assistance tailored to their specific business, market and objectives. We provide practicable solutions that answer to specific challenges and ambitions.

  • Banking & Finance

    In finance expert legal advice is key. The Netherlands and the Dutch Caribbean consist of different financial markets with each their own laws and regulations. Financial institutions are increasingly faced with supervision by various regulators and a high degree of regulation.

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  • Commercial Contracting

    Commercial Contracts are at the heart of doing business. Our Commercial Contracting team has extensive experience when it comes to commercial contracts and trade regulations: from pitfalls, to assistance in negotiations, drafting contracts and lawsuits.

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  • Competition

    Our team can help you navigate through the legal framework on fair market competition.

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  • Corporate/M&A

    Our clients know our Corporate and M&A team as an ambitious and experienced group of specialists who advise on a wide range of corporate matters and transactional projects. We are widely recognized for our leading role in mergers and acquisitions, as well as complex restructurings.

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  • Corporate & Commercial Dispute Resolution

    Court proceedings, mediation and arbitration: our broad specialist knowledge and experience is of added value no matter what the issue is.

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  • Employment & Pensions

    Our team of employment law specialists knows the ropes in the field and advises and litigates on various employment law matters.

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  • Energy & Natural Recources

    Energy and Natural Resources fuel our economies.

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  • Governance, Risk & Compliance

    Good governance is key for every organization. Our team of experts in the field gladly assist you to achieve that on a daily basis

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  • Government & Public Sector

    Our hands-on Government & Public Sector team knows how government institutions and (semi-)public organizations work and what they need.

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  • Insolvency & Restructuring

    With many years of experience assisting companies in financial distress, our Insolvency and Restructuring team is recognized as a leader in complex restructuring and insolvency matters.

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  • Insurance

    Our team of experienced specialists advises (re)insurance companies, insurance intermediaries and insured persons, on financial supervision and regulatory matters, litigation, and insurance related corporate transactions.

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  • Intellectual Property & Privacy

    Intellectual property rights play an important role to protect the economies on the business end of products, services and technologies and to encourage local and foreign companies and investors to do business.

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  • Patent & Trademark Office

    It is important to acquire proper local assistance when implementing your Intellectual property portfolio strategy. The intellectual property officers are available to address these challenges and assist in the implementation in the territories of the Dutch Caribbean.

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  • Real estate & Construction

    Our team makes real estate projects work.

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  • Shipping & Aviation

    Shipping and aviation are industries of essence in the Dutch Caribbean region. With our broad experience in this sector, we offer assistance and give advice on a variety of matters.

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Our locations

Amsterdam

The Amsterdam office opened in 2025, with an initial focus on the Dutch Corporate & Commercial Dispute Resolution practice. Working closely with VANEPS teams across all locations, the Amsterdam office provides seamless, high-quality support across jurisdictions and practice areas.

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Amsterdam

Aruba

We have been in business in Aruba since 1997, when we were the first regional firm to establish a branch on the island. We serve many of the local and international businesses on the island.

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Aruba

Bonaire

We are active in Bonaire since 2009, anticipating the constitutional changes which made Bonaire, Saba and St. Eustatius (together BES islands or Caribbean Netherlands) special municipalities of the Netherlands in 2010.

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Bonaire

Curaçao

Our firm was founded in 1937 in Curaçao. Over the course of more than eighty-five years, we have grown into the full-service (commercial law) firm we are today.

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Curaçao

Saba

Our team of lawyers offers integrated services throughout the Netherlands and the Dutch Caribbean. For locations where we do not have offices, such as Saba, our Flying Lawyers are always ready to take a flight. We are the legal service provider for the public entity of Saba and several educational institutions.

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Saba

Suriname

VANEPS offers a specialized team that serves the Suriname market, organized by our Flying Lawyers principle. Staffed with expert lawyers, focusing on banking, finance and regulatory expertise, we assist both local as well as international clients in Suriname.

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Suriname

St. Eustatius

Our team of lawyers offers integrated services throughout the Netherlands and the Dutch Caribbean. For locations where we do not have offices, such as St. Eustatius, our Flying Lawyers are always ready to take a flight.

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St. Eustatius

St. Maarten

Our St. Maarten office was opened in 2011 and has grown fast. Our intra-insular team of lawyers offers integrated services throughout the Netherlands and the Dutch Caribbean.

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St. Maarten