FIELDS OF LAW

 
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corporate law

Corporate law is the part of private law that relates to legal entities and concerns for profit organizations.

You can contact us for advice and assistance concerning, among others,

  • Starting up a new company

  • Mergers and acquisitions

  • Founding and establishing partnerships

  • Disputes between shareholders/board members and/or supervisory directors

  • Specific problems within family companies

  • Liability for board members and damage claims

  • (Imminent) disputes regarding shareholder transactions

  • Drawing up and assessing shareholder agreements

In addition, we offer advice and assistance to shareholders, directors, members of the supervisory bodies, government agencies, government companies, government foundations and financial institutions.

We think from your perspective as an entrepreneur not just from a legal standpoint. So in everything we do we weigh the legal action and the costs involved against the objective that needs to be achieved.

commercial law

Commercial law regulates issues between entrepreneurs and between entrepreneurs and consumers.

The experienced specialists of Murray Attorneys at Law advise you on (impending) disputes and help you with:

  • Drawing up new trade agreements and reviewing existing ones

  • Assessing and/or drawing up joint venture agreements

  • Product liability issues

  • Drawing up and checking general sales and delivery conditions

  • Assessing franchise- and similar agreements

  • Various commercial agreements

  • Collecting your claims against debtors, from the extrajudicial process up to and including the execution of verdicts (both domestic and international verdicts as well as arbitration verdicts), if necessary by (prior) seizure

Contact us to discuss your dispute. Our experts are at your service and keep sight of a proper balance between collecting receivables and the costs to be incurred when performing debt collection activities.

Banking and financial law

Mirto F. Murray specializes in banking and financial law, the law relating to financial institutions and financial transactions. We therefore have extensive experience in advising local and international banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions.

Areas where we have advised in the recent past include:

  • Supervising international mergers of credit institutions (which also covered company law aspects)

  • Supervising an acquisition of a loan portfolio

  • Advice on the documentation of transactions involving derivatives

  • Advice on the corporate structure of financial institutions

  • Assistance with the acquisition of a financial institution

  • Credit documentation for an international financing

In addition, we can assist you with advice and assistance in matters concerning:

  • Regulation of financial institutions: supervision and regulation, issuance of financial instruments, money laundering legislation

  • Capital markets: issue of bonds and convertible bonds, commercial papers, medium term notes and other financial instruments

  • Handling and settlement of disputes


labour law

Labor law regulates the legal relationships between employer and employee, such as:

  • Entering into the employment contract

  • (Dismissal during) the probationary period

  • Relationship clause and non-competition clause

  • Termination of the employment contract (including termination or disbanding)

  • Dismissal with immediate effect

Our experts advise the employer and employees on the content (or termination of) employment contracts, (impending) disputes between unions and employers and reorganizations. Thanks to the support of the specialists of Murray Attorneys at Law, many collective bargaining negotiations have been concluded successfully.

Precisely because we frequently assist employers, we are well able to help employees as well. Our specialists are happy to help you in the event of an impending dismissal or dispute with your employer.

Here too, the experts at Murray Attorneys at Law always weigh the costs of equalizing and the benefits of a settlement. If it is economically more beneficial, we will recommend compromise instead of continued litigation.

criminal law

Services by Murray Attorneys at Law service in the field of criminal law are characterized by the thoroughness of the team and the pragmatic approach to weighing the effects of legal action against costs associated with that action.

Criminal law assistance covers in particular:

  • Suspicion of committing crimes

  • Extradition to third countries / extradition within the kingdom of the Netherlands

  • Hearing witnesses in local and international criminal cases

  • Counsel during the process of reporting a criminal offense 

  • Entering into a transaction to prevent criminal prosecution, etc.

If you, in any capacity, are suspected of committing a criminal offense or when you are wanted to be heard as a witness in a criminal case, our specialists stand ready to assist you.

construction law

Construction law is the set of legal rules that aim to regulate and safeguard construction processes.

Since the interests and investments in the construction sector are often high, it is important to avoid potential problems or to solve them quickly. Clear agreements between parties are therefore essential.

Our specialists have extensive experience in these matters and counsel you during the construction of a house, an office or more extensive infrastructure projects. In addition, our commercial talent and insights can save you lengthy litigation processes and disputes.

Media and Entertainment law

More rules have also started to apply within the profession of event organization. An organizer must not only take into account the wishes / requirements of his clients and / or participants of the event, but also the interests of the other parties involved, such as local residents, government (permits), justice departments, media, etc. Clear agreements with a large number of parties have to be made and accurately recorded in writing.

Our office is one of the few offices in Curaçao to have specialists experienced in the world of entertainment and events. No artist, starting or arrived, is too big or too small for Murray Attorneys at Law. If at all possible we honor the motto 'Work hard, Play Hard' and are happy to attend your event and be on site to assist you if needed, even in the wee hours of the night .

Issues where we can help you include:

  • Liability

  • Terms and Conditions

  • Copyright

  • Artist agreement

  • Contracts

  • Intellectual property

  • Permits

  • Trademarks (registration but also infringements by third parties)

  • Application for tax exemption for foreign artists at major events

assistance during legal conflicts

Our team is ready to assist you with mediation between you and another party in order to bring a (possible) dispute to a satisfactory conclusion. We do this by means of mediation or dispute resolution or by acting as arbitrators.

Our aim is always to resolve impending or existing conflicts harmoniously, but we are aware this is not always possible. In such cases, Murray Attorneys at Law has passionate litigation lawyers who will go to great lengths to defend your interests.

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