Focco W. Lunsingh Scheurleer

Biography

Focco Lunsingh Scheurleer assists clients on a broad spectrum of matters in Banking & Finance and Company Law. He is responsible for assisting clients in numerous loan and credit facilities to local borrowers (utility, telecom and hospitality) as well as international borrowers with group members in the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba, either structured as syndicated loan facilities or as capital market transactions (bond issues). Focco advises financial institutions as well as associations of financial market parties on regulatory matters, netting and close-out as well as securities lending. Furthermore, he assists parties in preparing collateral documentation to secure investment institutions’ borrowing obligations to their lenders. His activities in Company Law may encompass advising clients on the acquisition or divestiture of businesses in our jurisdictions as well as corporate law issues, including corporate restructuring.

Focco started as an attorney in 1995 at Trenité Van Doorne in Rotterdam, currently Simmons & Simmons. In 2000 he was transferred to VanEps Kunneman VanDoorne. He has been active as a board member of the Curacao International Financial Services Association, was a part-time lecturer International Private Law at the University of the Netherlands Antilles and has been involved in a number of legislation projects.

Recommendations:
Independent publisher Chambers and Partners ranked Focco Lunsingh Scheurleer in  2012 as key individual lawyer. Chambers and partners: "Focco Lunsingh Scheurleer has been developing a strong practice in securities matters, having acted on a number of local listings since the establishment of the Dutch Caribbean Stock Exchange in 2009. He has an excellent reputation for his wider banking and finance work, and has handled a number of syndicated loans and restructurings."

Speaks: Dutch, English
Main office: Curacao
Education: Erasmus University Rotterdam
Graduated: 1994