Steef M. Bartman (1952) studied Law at the University of Amsterdam. In 1989, he was awarded his doctorate with a thesis on piercing the corporate veil, comparing Dutch and German statutory law and case law. Steef has written numerous articles on corporate law. He is the initiator and co-author of a widely used book, titled [...]

Bob Wessels (1949) is a Dutch legal counsel, since September 2007 Professor of International Insolvency Law, Leiden University (one day a week). Professor of Civil and Commercial Law, Vrije University Amsterdam (1988-februari 2008). Since 1987 Deputy Justice at the Court of Appeal, The Hague.

Cornelis (Cees) de Groot is senior lecturer of company law at Leiden University. He studied social-economic law at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. During the last year of his studies, he worked as an undergraduate research assistant with the department of European law. Following his studies, he worked at Leiden University as a [...]

Gert-Jan Vossestein, LL.M.  Gert-Jan Vossestein is a lecturer of company law at Leiden University and a Fellow at the Meijers Institute. He teaches courses on EC Company Law, (Business) Law & Economics and Netherlands Company Law. He also holds courses for post-graduate students. Previously he worked for Ernst & Young (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, New York) and [...]

Barend Verkerk (1978) lectures Netherlands corporate law at Leiden University. Barend combines his position at Leiden University with his work at the Corporate Law department of AKD Prinsen Van Wijmen N.V. in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Barend started working as an attorney specialised in corporate law after his graduation from Leiden University in 2001. As such [...]

Hanneke Wegman (1983) studied Law at Leiden University and she recently started in the function of PhD-fellow at the same University. Previously she worked as legal assistant at Brink Advocaten B.V. in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. In this profession she especially found it challenging to study complex issues of preferably company law matters. Because of the [...]