Ms Ruthnialys Mogen > VANEPS > Willemstad, Curacao > Lawyer Profile

VANEPS
Pietermaai 123
Willemstad
Curacao

Work Department

Corporate & Banking

Position

Senior Associate

Career

Ruthnialys Mogen is a senior associate within our Corporate and Banking team. Ruthnialys advises large corporates about all aspects of company law and corporate legal restructurings. Ruthnialys also assists local and international organizations in financing transactions, such as assisting the lenders Maduro & Curiel’s Bank in the refinancing of Curaçao oil company Curoil, Maduro & Curiel’s Bank N.V. in the refinancing of a bond issue of Sint Maarten Telecommunication Holding Company N.V. and CIBC First Caribbean International Bank in their partnership with Sandals Resort concerning the Sandals Royal Curaçao.  During 2023, Ruthnialys has been working on two separate structured finance transactions (these are confidential matters) and together with Focco Lunsingh Scheurleer, she advised NuKoraal Tabak Windparken concerning project financing by the local pension fund APC of the client’s new wind park project at Curaçao.  Ruthnialys is also an expert on privacy law. Ruthnialys was born and raised in Curaçao and studied law in the Netherlands. In 2017, she obtained her master’s degree in law at the Tilburg University.

Lawyer Rankings

Cross-Caribbean expertise > Intellectual property

VANEPS is singled out by clients as ‘the leading IP law firm in the Dutch Caribbean’, acting for a client base of national and international corporates and government bodies on transactional and contentious mandates. The group’s knowledge spans the full breadth of trade mark, copyright, domain name and patent work including registrations, protection issues, maintenance work and renewals. Corporate counsel Diek Fabius, who is praised for his ‘clear, practical advice’, leads the ‘efficient’ team and is also a member of the firm’s Suriname desk. Other key contributors to the practice include associate Ruthnialys Mogen, who specialises in privacy law; and IP officers Rianda Neman-Ferreira and Tania Martis-Ogenia, who excel in trade mark issues.