LECTURE ON GOOD CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
BZSE law office on Sint Maarten celebrates merger
On October 2, 2009 BZSE law firm (BergmanZwanikkenSnowEssed) celebrated the merger of Bergman and ZwanikkenSnowEssed law offices and the official opening of their new offices in Belair (St. Maarten) with a lecture on good corporate governance. I was the keynote speaker and delivered my presentation in the Dutch language (click here for the presentation or click here for The Daily Herald’s coverage of the event).
I argued that government-companies should be left out of the political sphere as much as possible, so they can …
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INDEPENDENT SUPERVISORY BOARD IN THE DUTCH CARIBBEAN
Should be mandatory for government-owned entities
Under the laws of the Netherlands Antilles, the main task of a board of supervisory directors is to supervise the board of managing directors of a limited liability company (NV or BV).
The Corporate Code provides for two different kinds of boards of supervisory directors, a “regular” board of supervisory directors and the so-called “independent” board of supervisory directors (Section 2:139 Netherlands Antilles Civil Code). Within this context the word independent means that the supervisory directors are independent of the shareholders, interest groups (“belangengroepen”) and to a certain extent from the shareholders’ meeting.
An …
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