Matthias Haentjens

Professor of Law at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek

Speaker

Dr. Matthias Haentjens has been a professor of law at Leiden Law School since 2012, where he currently holds the chair for Civil Law. Matthias worked as a lawyer at De Brauw from 2007 until 2012. On 1 January 2023, he rejoined the firm as of counsel. Since 2009, when DSB Bank failed, he has been working in the area of bank insolvency. He is a member of the committees preparing the UNIDROIT instrument on bank insolvency, and previously was a member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on Securities and Claims. Matthias is a prominent member of several international associations, including the International Insolvency Institute, the European Law Institute, and the European Banking Institute, where he is Secretary of the Academic Board. He regularly lectures and publishes on developments in European law, Supreme Court litigation and the legal consequences of digitalisation. His publications include Crisis Management in the Banking Sector (Edward Elgar 2015), EU Banking and Insurance Insolvency (Oxford 2017), Cross-Border Bank Resolution (Edward Elgar 2019) and Financial Collateral: Law and Practice (Oxford 2020).