Robert van Galen:
Robert van Galen has been a lawyer as of 1985. From 1985 until 2024 he worked as a lawyer with the law firm NautaDutilh. He was a partner from 1994 until 2022. He is specialized in restructuring and insolvency and moreover in the broader civil litigation practice. Starting 1 January 2025 he has his own firm with the name Van Galen Insolvency Law.
Work related ancillary activities:
- Voluntary justice in the Court of Appeal in The Hague
- Representative of the Netherlands in UNCITRAL Working Group V
- Member of the Experts Committee which advises the European Commission on new legislation in the area of insolvency law
- Editor of the magazine Ondernemingsrecht
- Co-chair of the international committee of the American College of Bankruptcy
Former positions:
- President of the Dutch association of insolvency lawyers INSOLAD
- President INSOL Europe
- President Practitioners Society (Praktizijnssociëteit)
- Board member of the Netherlands Association for Comparative and International Insolvency law
- Member of the Bankruptcy Committee of the Dutch bar
- Member of the subcommittee of the State committee on P.I.L. which advised the government on the introduction of the European Insolvency Regulation.
Other activities:
- playing the piano
- gliding (Robert is gliding instructor)