27-05-2025

BUREN Thesis Prize for Insolvency Law 2025

Every year BUREN, in collaboration with Celsus Juridische Uitgeverij, awards the BUREN Thesis Prize for Insolvency Law to the best thesis on insolvency law. The jury of the BUREN Thesis Prize for Insolvency law 2025 consists of prof. mr. H. Koster (professor Company Law at Leiden University), mr. H.J. de Kloe (lecturer Insolvency Law at Erasmus University in Rotterdam) en mr. M.J.H. Vermeeren (partner and laywer at BUREN).

Are you eligible?

You have written your thesis at a Dutch university;
You have written an awesome Master’s thesis on insolvency law graded 8 or higher;
Your thesis has been reviewed between 28 September 2024 and 27 September 2025;
You have written your thesis in Dutch or English.

If you just answered yes to all these questions, enter your thesis for the BUREN Thesis Prize for Insolvency Law 2025! The deadline for submission closes on Friday 26 September 2025 (11:59 PM CET).

What is the prize?

A prize money award of EUR 1,000;
The opportunity to do an internship at BUREN’s Restructuring & Insolvency department;
A book form of the winning thesis which will be published by Celsus Juridische Uitgeverij, of which the author will receive five copies.

How to Enter
Please submit the anonymised thesis (i.e. without the names of the author, supervisor or university), together with the completed and signed entry form, to: [email protected], attn. Ruud Brunninkhuis (jury secretary). You can download the terms and conditions and entry form at the bottom of this page.

About BUREN
BUREN is a dynamic firm of lawyers, (junior) civil-law notaries and tax advisers who work closely together in multidisciplinary teams. The firm, with more than 130 staff, has offices in Amsterdam, The Hague, Luxembourg, Shanghai and Beijing. In addition, it has several international desks (China, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Latin America, Kazakhstan) to support its national and international clients.

BUREN’s clients include prominent (inter)national companies, organisations and investment funds. BUREN ranks among the top of mid-sized firms in the Netherlands and can call on an impressive network of leading foreign law firms.

About Celsus Juridische Uitgeverij
A full-service text and publishing company for the legal sector, Celsus Juridische Uitgeverij focuses on editing, designing, producing, printing and publishing legal books and other texts. Such texts include monographs, dissertations, Festschrifte, conference proceedings, articles but also master’s theses of students of law.

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