Bob Wessels (1949) is a lawyer. He has over 50 years of business law experience.
He acted as independent (international) legal advisor and arbitrator. From 1988-2014, he has been a part-time professor of commercial law and international insolvency law at Universities in Amsterdam and Leiden. He was a deputy justice at the Court of Appeal in The Hague for more than 25 years.
For over four decades he is a prolific author. He is the single author of the 10-volume Dutch series ‘Wessels Insolvency Law’, which appeared in a fifth edition between 2018 and 2022. In 2021 he published the book Rembrandt's Money about the legal and financial life of the famous artist-entrepreneur in seventeenth-century Holland. In 2024 he has been providing a bi-weekly podcast on these topics and Amsterdam’s ‘Golden Age’ more in general, at www.rembrandtsmoney.com.