PHILIPSBURG: --- Nathalie Tackling, head of the Voting Bureau, has accepted the offer granted by the board of the Soualiga Action Movement (SAM) to be the next Minister of Justice.
SAM leader Franklin Meyers confirmed to SMN News on Sunday that Tackling has accepted the offer his political party presented to her. Meyers made the announcement to the SAM board and the candidates who postulated themselves on the SAM slate for the August 19th snap elections.
Background information on Nathalie Tackling is taken from her LinkedIn profile below.
Nathalie Tackling is a St. Maarten native with an extensive background in corporate and legislative law and is well-versed in Dutch, European, and US law. She obtained an LL.M. in Trade & Corporate Law from the University of Maastricht (Netherlands) and an LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law from the George Washington University School of Law (Washington, DC). Her coursework and final thesis focused on biotechnology patents and how to fit human genes and DNA into the existing framework of intellectual property.
Upon her return to St. Maarten, Nathalie started her career as a civil law litigator at a local firm. The following year, she joined the Corporate & Banking Unit of VanEps Kunneman VanDoorne, contributing her expertise to key cases on the Dutch Caribbean islands.
Since leaving the firm in 2016, Nathalie has worked as a Legal Advisor at the Raad van Advies (Council of Advice), one of the High Councils of State on St. Maarten. Her work there centered on providing professional feedback to the local government and Parliament on draft legislation, including drafting legislative advices and providing legal assistance on constitutional matters. In addition to her work at the Council of Advice, one of Nathalie’s proud moments has been establishing the Saba Legal Aid Desk, which provides free legal advice to Saban residents, the first of its sort in the Dutch Caribbean.
As of April 2019, Nathalie has officially founded Tackling Law and hopes to contribute her public and private sector experience to the community through a firm structured to provide service that optimizes the social and economic environment in the best interest of its clients. Nathalie believes that it is her responsibility to keep her clients informed of legal and cultural realities and to work with them to identify effective and efficient steps to achieve success.
