Bart van der Wiel

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Bart heads the Supreme Court Litigation Team. As a Supreme Court specialist, he has been involved in numerous landmark cases on arbitration, finance, insolvency, insurance, contracts, procedure and liability law, acting for corporates, investors, and leading financial institutions such as Achmea, Allianz, and ING. As a trial lawyer, he has represented the estates of KPNQwest and Lehman Brothers Treasury, and bondholders in the multi-billion dollar Oi restructuring in vital matters for the resolution of these insolvencies.

Bart received a Ph.D. from Leiden University in 2004 and has authored many publications. He is the editor and co-author of a leading textbook on Supreme Court litigation, and a member of the editorial team of the Tijdschrift voor Civiele Rechtspleging, the leading Dutch journal on civil procedure. Bart is a highly sought-after speaker and lecturer, and a member of the Advisory Committee on Civil Procedural Law of the Ministry of Justice and Security.