Wessel Bosse was born in 1959. Documented details of his early life are limited, so his background is best understood through the academic and professional setting in which he later worked.
His professional life centred on Amsterdam, the capital and largest city of the Netherlands. In the Dutch legal system, civil-law notaries are public officers who draw up authentic legal deeds and carry out statutory tasks, combining legal advice with official functions.
Bosse's education at Amsterdam (VU) University is recorded with the year 1983, and the qualification associated with it is that of candidate civil-law notary. The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam was founded in 1880 as a Protestant-Christian free university, an institution established outside the state university system.
Candidate notaries in the Netherlands prepare for appointment by combining academic legal study with practical training in a notarial office. This route linked university legal education with the practical responsibilities of the notarial profession that Bosse entered in the following years.
Bosse's notarial career began in 1984, and in 1999 he was appointed civil-law notary in Amsterdam. He has since practised as a partner and notary, a role that combines legal advice with the formal execution of notarial deeds.
He specialises in corporate law. His documented work includes advice on national and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, shareholder and investment agreements, restructurings, the establishment of legal entities, articles of association, corporate governance, business succession, family governance and joint ventures. He assists both domestic and international companies and entrepreneurs.
Alongside his practice, he has published many articles in professional journals and has given postgraduate courses on corporate law. Among his recent contributions are 2025 articles in the WPNR, a Dutch professional journal for notaries and private law, on shareholder control and on ultimate beneficial owner registration.
His practice has operated under several names. He is a partner at BosseMeilink Notariaat in Amsterdam, a firm that describes its clients as including start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises and larger international organisations. He also practises under the name Bosse Notaris Corporate Law (BNCL).
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(Article by Mr. W. Bosse in the WPNR (issue 7521), publish...)
2025Wijziging zeggenschap aandeelhouder en uitleg statuten
(Article by Mr. W. Bosse in the WPNR (issue 7527), publish...)
2025Vertegenwoordiging bij tegenstrijdig belang; HR 14 juli 2006 en stand van zaken
(Article by W. Bosse in JBN 2006 on representation in conf...)
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Bosse is secretary of the Stichting tot Bevordering der Notariële Wetenschap, the Foundation for the Promotion of Notarial Science, which supports scholarship in the notarial field. In 1988 the foundation launched a regular column in the WPNR with short, practice-oriented articles from a group of about forty authors, many of whom combined notarial practice with university work.
He is also a member of several associations of corporate-law practitioners.
Quotes from others about the person
Frank Pardaan, in a statement shared on LinkedIn, described Bosse as a specialist in corporate law.
