Bart heads Houthoff’s Supreme Court Team and boasts over 20 years’ experience as a Supreme Court specialist. He has been involved in numerous landmark Supreme Court proceedings on liability law, contract law, energy law, EU law, financial law, insolvency law, company law, procedural law, transport law and insurance law. member of the Advisory Committee on Civil Procedural Law of the Ministry of Justice and Security.
Bart van der Wiel
Attorney-at-law | Partner

- Represented RAB in a successful Supreme Court Appeal against a judgment of the Amsterdam court of appeal on the claim of a former adviser / party to the development of a hotel in Amsterdam.
- Represented Fortenova Group, the largest food producer and retailer in South-Eastern Europe with an annual turnover of EUR 5 billion and 47.500 employees, in the implementation of a comprehensive restructuring resulting from the presence of sanctioned debt and equity holders in its capital structure and cross-border litigation in connection therewith.
- Advising the Derivatives Committee on the creation of the Uniform Recovery Framework for Interest Rate Derivatives, a compensation mechanism that compensates Dutch SMEs for interest rate derivatives they purchased from the six largest banks in the Netherlands.
- Ph.D. Civil Law (Leiden University)
- LL.M. Civil Law (Leiden University)
- M.A. Classics (Leiden University)
- Admitted to the Bar in the Netherlands in 2003
- Bart received a Ph.D. from Leiden University in 2004 and has authored many publications
Editor and co-author of a leading textbook on Supreme Court litigation - Board member of the Civil Law Association (VBR). Member of the editorial team of Tijdschrift voor Civiele Rechtspleging, the leading Dutch journal on civil procedure
- A highly sought-after speaker and lecturer
- A member of the Advisory Committee on Civil Procedural Law of the Ministry of Justice and Security
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