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.
You can follow me through my blog. You can also find me on: linkedin.com/in/bobwessels. For further information please do not hesitate to contact me.
Recent blog posts
- 2025-01-doc1 Towards a new EU-wide legal statute for an Innovative European Company6 January 2025Former European Central Bank president Mario Draghi published in September 2024 his longawaited report, “The future of European competitiveness”. It sets out its already widely discussed competitiveness strategy for Europe. Draghi, who became ... Read More »
- 2024-12-doc5 Dutch court rules on foreign directors’ liability in landmark Petrobras case17 December 2024At the end of October, a Dutch court dismissed a claim by a group of affected shareholders of Brazilian oil company Petrobras, ending a case that has been spanning for some 10 years. The shareholders will not receive compensation for price drops ... Read More »