Prof. dr. J.A.A. (Jan) Adriaanse

Position:
  • Professor at Leiden Law School, Institute for Tax Law and Economics, Department of Business Studies
Expertise:
  • Turnaround Management
  • Reorganization and Bankruptcy
  • Strategic Entrepeneurship


Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 7752
E-Mail: J.A.A.Adriaanse@umail.LeidenUniv.NL
Faculty / Department: Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid, Instituut Fiscale en Economische vakken, Bedrijfswetenschappen
Office Address: Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw
Steenschuur 25
2311 ES Leiden
Room number B305


Biographical Sketch

Jan Adriaanse is a professor in turnaround management at Leiden University. He is engaged in research projects in the interdisciplinary field of financial distress, turnaround management and insolvency law. He is an author on these subjects and a regular speaker at international conferences. As founder and CEO of think-tank Turnaround Powerhouse® he is providing business development, turnaround and workout advice to a wide range of companies focusing on larger SMEs and multinational companies. In December 2005 he defended his doctoral thesis called ‘Restructuring in the Shadow of the Law. Informal Reorganisation in the Netherlands’. He is a fellow of INSOLAD, the Dutch professional body of insolvency professionals, and a member of INSOL Europe, as well as the Turnaround Management Association (Dutch chapter). In the Global Insolvency Practice Course of INSOL International he arranges the so-called Workout Clinic.

Education

  • Bachelor of Business Administration, Nyenrode University
  • Master of Law, Leiden University
  • PhD: “Restructuring in the Shadow of the Law”,  Leiden University, 2005
  • SRA-course Accountant-Mediator, 2005
  • Entrepreneurship Colloquium, Harvard Business School, 2007 

Courses

  • Recovery management
  • Turnaround management & Bankruptcy
  • Law & Business

Research Interests

The approach to his research is both from a legal as well as an accounting perspective.  He focuses on the following subjects: 
-         strategic entrepreneurship;
-         turnaround management;
-         business restructuring;
-         financial restructuring;
-         value recovery;
-         costs of  financial distress;
-         prisoner´s dilemma of creditors;
-         common pool problem;
-         race to collect;
-         private agreements;
-         rivision of banktruptcylegislation;
-         ADR and mediation; and
-         determinant factors for failure or success in reorganization.

The specific role of banks comes up as well. Practical applicability of the research is considered something of paramount importance.     
The activities of Adriaanse concern primarily strategic business issues and restructuring processes (´informal reorganization´) at companies in financial trouble. Emphasis lays on the question how companies can be reorganized and at the same time moratorium and bankruptcy can be prevented. 
For questions and suggestions, (contract)research, mediation with reorganizations and advise you can always get in touch.    

External links

www.turnaroundpowerhouse.com

Last Modified: 29-07-2011