The financial markets are subject to supervision and to a large number of regulations required for that purpose. When those regulations are violated, a regulator can act, for example by imposing a fine on the offender. This occurs within the regulator-financial institution relationship. This research study investigates how the offence may affect the offender's agreements with other market participants. This pertains to agreements made within the horizontal relationship between two market participants. Are these agreements still valid after a breach of financial law? Since financial market regulations are written mainly for supervisory purposes, this question is still largely unanswered.
Kaj Strijbos was born in 1983 in Nijmegen. During and after secondary school, he studied classical piano at the conservatory, first in Tilburg and later in Utrecht. After graduating in 2005, he enrolled in a Bachelor's programme in Law, first in Utrecht at the Utrecht Law College and later in Nijmegen, where he went on to complete the Research Master's programme in Business and Law. He then worked, among others, for Clifford Chance LLP in Amsterdam, and from 2014 to 2022 as senior lecturer for Beroepsopleiding Advocaten (Vocational Training for the Legal Profession). Since 2010, he has been affiliated with the Business and Law Research Centre. His previous publications focus on private and financial law, and in particular on the intersection of these areas of law. Kaj is currently working as Assistant Professor of Civil Law at the Nijmegen Faculty of Law.