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2024-07-doc1 Wessels-Salah Insolventierecht XI — WHOA – Klassenindeling en pand- en hypotheekhouders

Wessels-Salah Insolventierecht XI 2024 is Deel XI in de elfdelige serie Wessels Insolventierecht. De kern van het boek bevat een systematische behandeling van de WHOA, zoals deze is opgenomen in de wet. Het verschijnt in september 2024. Meer info, zie https://bobwessels.nl/blog/2024-06-doc1-wessels-salah-insolventierecht-xi-boek-over-de-whoa-verschijnt-binnenkort/. Hieronder een preview van twee paragrafen uit het boek: [11381] Verplichte bescherming pand- en hypotheekhouders. Een tweede bindende regel… Read More »2024-07-doc1 Wessels-Salah Insolventierecht XI — WHOA – Klassenindeling en pand- en hypotheekhouders

2024-06-doc1 Wessels-Salah Insolventierecht XI – Boek over de WHOA verschijnt binnenkort

In september 2024 verschijnt in de serie Wessels Insolventierecht een Deel XI met een volledig commentaar op de recente Wet homologatie onderhands akkoord (WHOA). De auteurs zijn prof. mr. B. Wessels, emeritus hoogleraar Internationaal insolventierecht, Universiteit Leiden en prof. mr. O. Salah, advocaat/partner Norton Rose Fulbright, Amsterdam; hoogleraar Global Finance & Restructuring Law, Tilburg University. Wessels-Salah Insolventierecht XI 2024 is… Read More »2024-06-doc1 Wessels-Salah Insolventierecht XI – Boek over de WHOA verschijnt binnenkort

2024-05-doc3 The US-approved Mercon ‘New Protocol and the Dutch Court / Part Two

Two weeks ago I published ‘The US-approved Mercon protocol and the Dutch courts / Part One’, see https://bobwessels.nl/blog/2024-04-doc3-the-us-approved-mercon-protocol-and-the-dutch-courts-part-one/. It was the text of my column of some 4 or 5 weeks earlier in Global Restructuring Review (GRR), the world’s only daily news and analysis service on cross-border restructuring and insolvency law. See https://globalrestructuringreview.com/. As a refresher, Mercon Coffee Corporation and… Read More »2024-05-doc3 The US-approved Mercon ‘New Protocol and the Dutch Court / Part Two

2024-05-doc2 Re-Examining Insolvency Law and Theory

Re-examining Insolvency Law and Theory. Perspectives for the 21st Century Four decades ago, looking at insolvency acts in many countries, its core was related to formal (procedural) proceedings, focussing on assets and on liquidation, managed by ‘liquidators’ (IPs) all full-blown controlled by courts. Especially during the last two decades, however, the paradigm has shifted: less formal (quasi-contractual) procedures, focussing on… Read More »2024-05-doc2 Re-Examining Insolvency Law and Theory

2024-05-doc1 In memoriam mr. Arnoud Noordam

Bedroefd heb ik kennisgenomen van het overlijden van mijn voormalig promovendus Arnoud Noordam. Arnoud was ruim dertig jaar advocaat in Amsterdam, waarvan sedert 1995 met zijn eigen kantoor. Hij overleed afgelopen woensdag op 58-jarige leeftijd aan een kwaadaardige aandoening. Arnoud Noordam was een kei in de theorie en de praktijk van de minnelijke en wettelijke schuldsanering. Zijn dissertatie ‘Schuldsanering en… Read More »2024-05-doc1 In memoriam mr. Arnoud Noordam

2024-04-doc3 The US-approved Mercon protocol and the Dutch courts / Part One

Mercon 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. With the New York court, Mercon drafted up a protocol based on the JIN Guidelines with some special provisions applicable to the case,… Read More »2024-04-doc3 The US-approved Mercon protocol and the Dutch courts / Part One

2024-04-doc2 Are the Dutch following the Model Law? Or: does the snail move?

In the Netherlands, in a letter dated April 15, 2024 to the House of Representatives, Minister of Legal Protection Mr Weerwind (in outgoing /’demissionair’) addresses ‘Developments in insolvency law’. The ‘recalibration’ program (see https://bobwessels.nl/blog/2019-07-doc1-insolvency-legislative-developments-in-the-netherlands/) has ended, but for Dutch national insolvency several other themes need to be further investigated. The minister indicates that the ‘coming period’ (my impression from the… Read More »2024-04-doc2 Are the Dutch following the Model Law? Or: does the snail move?

2024-04-doc1 Assignment of claims, subrogation and set-off

My colleague from the University of Bari Aldo Moro, prof. Antonio Leandro, wrote a book (in Italian) under the title ‘Movement and Extinction of Commercial Credits in Conflicts of law of the EU. The ‘Rome I’ Regulation between the Internal Market and the Capital Market.’ It is a complex topic, not often addressed in depth. Reason enough to ask Antonio… Read More »2024-04-doc1 Assignment of claims, subrogation and set-off