Willemieke Princée

Attorney-at-law at OX & WOLF legal partners (Curaçao)

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Willemieke is a skilled commercial lawyer specialized in cross-border litigation, insurance and transport law. She advises on commercial contracts, supports clients in negotiations and represents clients in various legal proceedings, including inquiry proceedings, enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards and the levying and lifting of attachments. Clients describe her as hands-on, to the point, strategic and committed.

Willemieke also assists many players in the shipping industry. Her clients include (re)insurers, P&I Clubs, ship owners, agents, charterers, managers, cargo handling companies, maritime authorities and mortgagees. She is the go-to lawyer for arrests and judicial sales of vessels, cargo and bunkers on all the islands of the Dutch Caribbean (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten).

Willemieke serves as vice president of the Curacao Maritime Association, is a member of the Caribbean Committee of the Dutch Arbitration Association, and member of the Litigation, Insurance and Transport committees of the International Bar Association.

Legal 500 Caribbean 2025 praises Willemieke as Next Generation partners as a “very experienced, well-connected, practical and solution-oriented partner with in-depth legal knowledge.”