De Cuba Ormel Noordhuizen Attorneys at Law

Corporate law

De Cuba Ormel Noordhuizen can assist with:

• acting as corporate counsel to financial institutions and business enterprises;
• advising on business start-ups, entity selection and choice, implementation and maintenance of corporate structures and funding;
• guidance with incorporation process, reviewing bylaws and application for required licenses and permits;
• drafting corporate documents such as shareholder/board resolutions, shareholders or partnership agreements, operating agreements, management agreements and joint venture agreements;
• advising on and guidance for buying and selling of businesses, mergers and acquisitions and advising on related contractual, labor and intellectual property matters;
• conducting due diligence investigations;
• drafting share/asset purchase agreements; and
• advising on and guidance with respect to dissolution or unwinding of legal entities.

Corporate governance

We provide advice and guidance to managing boards, supervisory boards, shareholders and lenders on corporate governance matters. Our attorneys draft and perfect corporate governance codes and best practices, (maintenance of governance by preserving good standing).

Real estate, project development

Our attorneys represent developers, buyers and sellers, landlords and tenants. We provide advice and guidance on timeshare and property development, construction, zoning, purchasing, selling and leasing of real property.

Our team of attorneys has extensive experience with (infrastructural) projects through public private partnerships (PPP) that are realized by means of DBFM agreements (design, build, finance and maintain).

Furthermore, our attorneys are well versed with respect to structuring, restructuring, acquisition and disposition of all off types of real property assets including hotels, shopping malls and retail, recreational and development. We advise on real property ownership structures, such as cooperative associations and timeshare associations.

Bankruptcy, insolvency, restructuring and reorganization and undivided estates

The attorneys of De Cuba Ormel Noordhuizen are regularly appointed by the Court of First Instance of Aruba as bankruptcy trustee, administrator, and executor of estates. As such our team is experienced in unwinding of estates, corporate recovery, pre-packaged bankruptcies, cross-border bankruptcies.

We provide advice and guidance to foreign trustees or receivers, holders of security interests, assist with enforcement of foreign judgments and the repatriation/repossession of assets. Also, we advise on matters of fraudulent preference, liability of directors or shareholders and all other issues related to insolvency law. By combining our firm’s bankruptcy experience with knowledge in the field of mergers and acquisitions, transactions and distressed real estate we provide advice and guidance on restructuring/ reorganization of businesses.
Our team of attorneys advises heirs of undivided estates and has ample experience with bringing an end to an impasse between heirs of undivided estates in order to arrive at a (Court ordered) division.

Litigation

The attorneys of De Cuba Ormel Noordhuizen have bench depth as a consequence of their vast experience in conducting legal proceedings before the Court of First Instance of Aruba as well as the Joint Appellate Court of Aruba, Curacao, St. Maarten and of Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba for clients from a wide range of sectors in procedurally complex and high value civil, corporate and administrative matters. Our clients include, both plaintiffs and respondents, financial institutions, insurance companies, real estate developers, telecommunication providers and hotels. We assist in matters that are often procedurally complex involving multiple jurisdictions.

Deep local and on the ground knowledge enables our team to move quickly when a (prejudgment) arrest is necessary, for example with respect to funds, vessels or aircraft that need to be arrested on short notice.