PROPOSED REVIEW DUTCH CARIBBEAN CROSS BORDER MERGER LEGISLATION
Proposed bill introduces outbound mergers
Earlier in 2010, a draft bill was proposed to amend the Corporate Code (Book 2 Civil Code) of Curacao, St. Maarten, Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba (which formerly constituted the Netherlands Antilles). Hopefully, the Bill comes into force in 2011.
The possibility already currently exists that in connection with a merger, a foreign legal entity as the disappearing legal entity merges with a comparable legal form of Book 2 BW on the condition that the law governing that foreign legal entity is not incompatible with the merger and the manner in which it is brought …
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