Eric Bokkes graduated in Law and Economics in 1996 and in International Law in 1997, both at the University of Utrecht, and completed a vocational training for company lawyers at the Catholic University of Nijmegen in 1999. He was a company lawyer at two different large companies from 1998 until 2004 and founded a trading company in theatre supplies in 2001 and was its managing director up to 2004. He was president of the Young Barristers Curacao and is treasurer of the Curacao Bar Associationand vice president of the Curaçao Society for the Protection of Animals
He was admitted to the bar on the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba in 2004. As far as languages are concerned, Bokkes is well versed in Dutch, English, German and Papiamento.
Suardus Fontein
Suardus Fontein graduated from the University of Amsterdam. As a reserve captain he was assigned to a military court and has gained ample experience in several legal functions while working at international trading companies. Amongst others, he fulfilled several top-management functions at international corporations quoted on the Amsterdam stock exchange.
He is chairman of the Royal Association of Netherlands Reserve Officers at Curacao. Fontein was admitted to the bar on the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba in June 2002. He speaks Dutch, English, German and French.
Marcelle Peelen
Marcelle Peelen completed her study HEAO Commercial Economics at Zeelandia Opleidingen Groep (ZOG) in Curacao in 2001, which study is associated with Fontys Hogeschool Tilburg, and in 2009 she completed her law studies at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Since 2009, she practiced law in the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. As a lawyer she submits herself to the general law. Languages: English, Dutch and Papiamento.
Bauke Falkena
“Bauke Falkena obtained a law degree in civil law and business law in 1997 and in notarial law in 1998 from the Groningen University. During his time in college, he worked as assistant at the business law department of the university and as assistant in the MBA University of Groningen. As of 1998 he worked as lawyer at CMS Derks Star Busmann in Utrecht (department M&A / company law) and as of 2000 he worked as lawyer at Clifford Chance LLP in Amsterdam (department banking & finance). In 2003, Falkena worked in London at Clifford Chance LLP and at Credit Suisse First Boston as transaction manager debt capital markets. Mid 2004, Falkena sailed to the Caribbean and worked as lawyer until 2007 at Spigthoff Attorneys at law and tax advisors. As of June 2007, Falkena was lawyer in the Banking & Finance department of Norton Rose LLP, Amsterdam, specializing in financial services. December 2008, Falkena has been appointed partner/shareholder at CMS Derks Star Busmann and he worked in (and leading) the department Banking & Finance. As per 1 January 2011, Falkena leads the Amsterdam office of Bokkes Fontein Advocaten.
Bauke Falkena regularly writes articles and chapters in books on Netherlands financial services law and Curacao company and financial law. Furthermore, Falkena lectures in financial law at the Law Firm School in the Netherlands and he is lecturer at the Academy for practical law (Academie voor Toegepaste Rechtswetenschappen). Regularly, Falkena lectures at courses in financial law at financial institutions, law firms and other companies.”
Falkena worked as a lawyer till 2010 and is since then working as a legal counsel
Eric Bokkes graduated in Law and Economics in 1996 and in International Law in 1997, both at the University of Utrecht, and completed a vocational training for company lawyers at the Catholic University of Nijmegen in 1999. He was a company lawyer at two different large companies from 1998 until 2004 and founded a trading company in theatre supplies in 2001 and was its managing director up to 2004. He was president of the Young Barristers Curacao and is treasurer of the Curacao Bar Associationand vice president of the Curaçao Society for the Protection of Animals 
Suardus Fontein graduated from the University of Amsterdam. As a reserve captain he was assigned to a military court and has gained ample experience in several legal functions while working at international trading companies. Amongst others, he fulfilled several top-management functions at international corporations quoted on the Amsterdam stock exchange. 
Marcelle Peelen completed her study HEAO Commercial Economics at Zeelandia Opleidingen Groep (ZOG) in Curacao in 2001, which study is associated with Fontys Hogeschool Tilburg, and in 2009 she completed her law studies at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
“Bauke Falkena obtained a law degree in civil law and business law in 1997 and in notarial law in 1998 from the Groningen University. During his time in college, he worked as assistant at the business law department of the university and as assistant in the MBA University of Groningen. As of 1998 he worked as lawyer at CMS Derks Star Busmann in Utrecht (department M&A / company law) and as of 2000 he worked as lawyer at Clifford Chance LLP in Amsterdam (department banking & finance). In 2003, Falkena worked in London at Clifford Chance LLP and at Credit Suisse First Boston as transaction manager debt capital markets. Mid 2004, Falkena sailed to the Caribbean and worked as lawyer until 2007 at Spigthoff Attorneys at law and tax advisors. As of June 2007, Falkena was lawyer in the Banking & Finance department of Norton Rose LLP, Amsterdam, specializing in financial services. December 2008, Falkena has been appointed partner/shareholder at CMS Derks Star Busmann and he worked in (and leading) the department Banking & Finance. As per 1 January 2011, Falkena leads the Amsterdam office of Bokkes Fontein Advocaten.