prof. mr. M.L. (Loes) Lennarts

Loes Lennarts holds the chair in comparative company law at the University of Groningen (Institute of Company Law). She specialises in (comparative and international) company law and insolvency law. She holds an LLM from the Westfälische Wilhelms University of Münster in Germany and a doctorate in law from the University of Groningen, where she defended a thesis on liability of corporate groups. Loes has advised the Dutch government on the reform of the capital maintenance law applicable to private limited companies. She is a member of the advisory comittee for company law of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Safety. Loes is fellow of the Dutch Insolvency Practitioners Association (Vereniging Insolventierecht Advocaten (INSOLAD)) and has for many years taught a postgraduate course on director liability in insolvency at the Grotius Academy. She is a member of the editorial boards of Tijdschrift voor Insolventierecht (TvI, Review of Insolvency Law), Tekst en Commentaar Ondernemingsrecht (text and Commentary Company Law) and Rechtspraak Ondernemingsrecht (Jurisprudence Company Law). She regularly publishes and lectures on matters of company law and insolvency law, such as issues of director liability.