
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
- 2025-09-doc1 Lost in translation? Annex A of the European Insolvency Regulation2 September 2025The European Insolvency Regulation (EIR 2015) dictates that its overarching definition for “insolvency proceedings” are proceedings that are listed exhaustively in Annex A. To the national procedures contained in Annex A, the EIR 2015 should apply ... Read More »
- 2025-08-doc5 Jurisdiction in EU Cross-Border Insolvency Law30 August 2025The book, discussed here, is titled ‘Jurisdiction in EU Cross-Border Insolvency Law’. It has been written by Antonio Leandro, a professor at the University of Bari Aldo Moro in Italy and one of my colleagues of the European Commission’s ... Read More »