Navarro returns to HBN Law

April 04, 2011 4:05 PM

Attorney Nelson Navarro (61) returns to his former law office as 'of counsel'. He will work on special projects, in which he can use his broad experience in administrative law.

In 2004 Navarro left the law firm HBN Law to found the political party Forsa Kòrsou. Last year he left the party and in August 2010 he started his own law firm together with Esther Cherie: Navarro & Cherie.

HBN Law, founded in 1938 in Curaçao, employs 24 attorneys in Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao and St. Maarten, of which five are partners.

In 1991, when Mr. Robert E. Blaauw became a partner, the name of the firm was changed to Halley & Blaauw. In 1993 the firm moved from its old offices in Pietermaai to Huize Belvedere in Otrobanda. At that time Mr. Nelson N. Navarro joined as a partner and the name of the firm changed to Halley Blaauw & Navarro.

In the years following the firm opened further offices in Aruba and Bonaire, and Mr. Eric R. de Vries joined the firm as a partner. Subsequently Mrs. Mildred Schwengle became a partner of the firm in Aruba and Mr. Maarten Le Poole became a partner of the firm in St. Maarten. At the end of 2005, and thus 67 years after being founded, the firm changed its name to HBN Law. In January 2008 Mr. Jeroen Eichhorn and Mr. Luigi M. Virginia joined the firm in Curacao and Bonaire as partners.

HBN Law runs a general civil practice, mainly in the areas of corporate law, commercial law, banking and insurance law, telecommunication law, labour law, bankruptcy law, trademark law and of course litigation in those areas. The HBN Law practice further includes constitutional and administrative law as HBN advises and represents the federal and island governments in those areas on several occasions.

4 April 2010