Welcome
My name is Bob Wessels. I have been an independent legal counsel, advisor and arbitrator, with 45 years of business experience. For over 25 years I acted as a deputy justice in the Court of Appeal in The Hague. From 1988-2014 I was a law professor (civil law, commercial law, insolvency law) at the Vrije University in Amsterdam and the University of Leiden. This website illustrates a number of my past and present activities.
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Recent blog posts
- 2024-04-doc4 Evaluation of the Dutch WHOA legislation26 April 2024RESTRUE, is the name of the Report 2023 on Restructuring proceedings and bankruptcies in Poland. It was published mid April 2024 and prepared by the law firm of Filipiac Babicz. I was invited to write a few words about the Dutch WHOA legislation. My ... Read More »
- 2024-04-doc3 The US-approved Mercon protocol and the Dutch courts / Part One24 April 2024Mercon Coffee Corporation and some of its international subsidiaries entered Chapter 11 in New York in December 2023, while its Netherlands-registered arm Mercon BV, the parent to some of the group debtors, launched WHOA proceedings in Amsterdam. ... Read More »