Karel Frielink President of Curaçao Bar Association

December 16, 2008 4:05 AM

At the Curaçao Bar Association’s annual meeting held on 12 December 2008, Karel Frielink (Spigthoff) was formally elected to serve as President of the Curaçao Bar Association for a two year-term. He is the successor of Eric de Vries (HBN).

Eric Bokkes (Bokkes Fontein Advocaten), Daniel Zahavi (ZL Law) and Chester Peterson (Sulvaran & Peterson) have been re-elected as board member of the Curaçao Bar Association: Peterson as Vice-President, Bokkes as Treasurer and Zahavi as Secretary.

Frielink started practicing as an attorney in 1989 in Amsterdam, but moved to Curaçao in 1997. He is a partner with Spigthoff Attorneys & Tax Advisers.

Recently, he has been elected as member of the Board of Directors of the Curaçao Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of the Board of Supervisory Directors of the Curacao Citizens Rescue Organization (Citro) and a lecturer at the University of the Netherlands Antilles on corporate law.

 

 

The Curaçao Bar Association is a voluntary professional membership organization. As the national voice of the legal profession, the CBA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers in their work, and works to build public understanding of the importance of the rule of law in a democratic society.

(Source: Karel Frielink)

16 December, 2008

 

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