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
- 2024-12-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 »
- 2024-12-doc4 The Anatomy of Corporate Insolvency Law12 December 2024Bork and Mangano. Without a doubt, the editors of this book, Prof. Reinhard Bork (Germany) and Prof. Renato Mangano (Italy), are among the most productive European scholars in the broad field of insolvency law. I’ve reviewed several of their ... Read More »