
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
- 2025-07-doc2 Seven suggestions to strengthen the EU Insolvency Regulation19 July 2025Early June, in my regular column in Global Restructuring Review (GRR), I suggested seven changes that could make the EU Insolvency Regulation more equitable, efficient, and suited to the evolving needs of the global economy. Here’s the column. ... Read More »
- 2025-07-doc1 COMI queries continued18 July 2025In my last column in Global Restructuring Review (GRR) I submitted that the concept of the centre of main interests (COMI) remains ambiguous and is still vague. An example could be the following case. In August 2020, a German public inner-city ... Read More »