DCON LAW - Key Persons

Dirk Ormel is a graduate from Leiden University in the Netherlands (Master in Public International Law, 2011). He started practicing as a lawyer in 2012 at a regional law firm in Curaçao, and moved to Aruba later that year to continue practicing law there. He has been admitted to the bar for the Dutch Caribbean (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao and the BES-islands) in 2012. In 2015 he joined the Aruban law firm De Cuba Wever, and became partner at De Cuba Ormel Noordhuizen in 2021. Dirk Ormel has held a position in the Supervisory Committee for the Penal System from 2017 to 2019, and has been a board member and president of the supervisory board of Aruba's Chronic Care Foundation (SABA) since 2017. In 2019 he successfully completed an extensive post academic course at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam in the field of Mergers & Acquisitions. In 2021 Dirk Ormel was elected dean (deken) of the Aruba Bar Association. As a lawyer Dirk Ormel focuses on advising corporate clients and is also active as a litigator.

Myrthe Franken graduated in August 2019 from the University of Amsterdam in private law, with a focus on property law and financing. During her study she was active as an advisor and as president at the legal desk of IJsselstein. She was also a board member of the student association of her master studies, where she organized several events to let students get in contact with law firms. During her studies, she also worked at a leading notary office as notarial assistant. Furthermore, she did several internships, both in the Netherlands and in Aruba. After obtaining her master's degree, she decided to move to Aruba, where she started her career as lawyer at VANEPS. She was sworn in as attorney at law in November 2020. Myrthe started in February 2023 with DCON Law and she is active in the field of civil and corporate law and specializes in banking transactions, commercial contracting and doing business in Aruba.