Obituaries

2024-05-doc1 In memoriam mr. Arnoud Noordam

4 May 2024
by Bob Wessels

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

2019-03-doc7 Passing away of Gabriel Moss QC

16 March 20195 December 2019
by Bob Wessels

With deep sorrow I am reporting about the death, on 15 March 2019, of my dear colleague Gabriel Moss QC. Gabriel has had a remarkable career as a practitioner, with a clever and unrivalled grasp on the practical as well as the academic dimensions of especially international insolvency law. We met in the early 2000s both being speakers at several… Read More »2019-03-doc7 Passing away of Gabriel Moss QC

2018-07-doc3 Passing away of prof. Ian F. Fletcher

24 July 20185 December 2019
by Bob Wessels

Prof. em. Ian F. Fletcher QC (hc) Obituary With great sadness I report the passing away of a dear friend and colleague, Ian Fletcher, on 21 July 2018. He was 74. I will commemorate him on another occasion more fully, but I wish to express here that in particular the world of international insolvency law has lost a giant. I… Read More »2018-07-doc3 Passing away of prof. Ian F. Fletcher

2018-01-doc11 Passing away of Professor Hazard

25 January 201824 December 2019
by Bob Wessels

I am saddened by the news that on 11 January Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, has passed away. He was, among many other things, also a Professor of Law at Yale, the University of Chicago, and the University of California, Berkeley. In the USA he was a leading figure in… Read More »2018-01-doc11 Passing away of Professor Hazard

2017-01-doc10 Passing of Bruce Leonard

24 January 20175 December 2019
by Bob Wessels

Bruce Leonard, one of the most influential and respected lawyers in the field of international insolvency law, has passed away. Bruce has been an esteemed lawyer in Canada, but non-Canadians know him best as the auctor intellectualis, founder and chair for many years of the International Insolvency Institute (III). III presently is a non-profit limited-membership invitational association of over 300… Read More »2017-01-doc10 Passing of Bruce Leonard

2017-01-doc5 Passing of Stephen Adamson

11 January 20175 December 2019
by Bob Wessels

With great sadness I inform about the death of Stephen Adamson CBE. He is an insolvency veteran from England, but with global experience. See below, his obituary from Global Restructuring Review of 10 January 2017. I learned he died in October last year. In the 90s I was a young partner of Ernst & Young (EY now) and I remember… Read More »2017-01-doc5 Passing of Stephen Adamson

2015-04-doc9 Passing of Harvey Miller

29 April 20159 March 2023
by Bob Wessels

Last Monday, I received the sad news that Harvey Miller had passed away. He was 82. Undoubtedly, Harvey Miller is one of the giants in bankruptcy practice in the USA. With a short period outside the firm, he has been a partner of Weil Gotshal & Manges for close to 50 years. Harvey Miller was one of the first partners… Read More »2015-04-doc9 Passing of Harvey Miller