HOW PRIVATE IS THE CURAÇAO PRIVATE FOUNDATION, CURAÇAO TRUST, AND THE DUTCH PRIVATE FOUNDATION?

Article published in Trusts & Trustees (Oxford Journals)
 
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Maike Bergervoet and Jeroen Starreveld of Spigt Dutch Caribbean (Attorneys & Tax Advisers) have written an article on the Curacao Private Foundation, the Curacao Trust and the Dutch Private Foundation, which is published in Trust & Trustees (2013, Volume 19, Number 6, Pp. 577-583).
 
This article contains an analysis of the Curaçao Private Foundation, the Curaçao Trust, and the Dutch Private Foundation from a privacy perspective. It compares and contrasts which information is publicly available with a view to the above entities and also which information needs to be made available in case foreign tax authorities submit a request for information.
 
Maike Bergervoet is a partner who practices in the fields of corporate and financial law. She holds a notarial and Dutch law degree from the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Her clients include a variety of local and international corporations, private clients, investment institutions and financial institutions such as banks and trust service providers. Maike is officer of the IBA Banking Law Committee, Vice-Chair of the Innovations in Financing Transactions Sub-Committee.
 
Jeroen Starreveld is a partner who practices in the fields of tax litigation, privacy and asset protection, and advice on investment structures. Recent transactions include the implementation of privacy and asset protection structures (including the use of the Dutch Caribbean Cooperative and Dutch Caribbean Private Foundation), advice and implementation of holding structures involving ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs) in Latin America with activities in Europe, and tax litigation to prevent fishing expeditions under tax information exchange agreements.
 
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