If the company is closing, insolvent or in bankruptcy, who now has legal authority to sell: the board, an assignee for the benefit of creditors, a bankruptcy trustee, or a Dutch curator?
The right officeholder signs; in US bankruptcy the sale goes through section 363 with an ombudsman where personal data is involved (Spirit Airlines to Google, October 2026); in a Dutch faillissement the curator has rechter-commissaris consent.
Dated 11 Oct 2026Source checked 11 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 16 Oct 2026Basis: stated
“If a hearing is required under section 363(b)(1)(B), the court shall order the United States trustee to appoint, not later than 7 days before the commencement of the hearing, 1 disinterested person (other than the United States trustee) to serve as the consumer privacy ombudsman in the case”
11 U.S.C. 332(a) (consumer privacy ombudsman), checked 11 Oct 2026
Everything read from this source (1)Archived copy, 15 Oct 2026
Faillissementswet (Dutch Bankruptcy Act) articles 68 and 176, checked 1 Jan 2025
Everything read from this source (1)Archived copy, 15 Oct 2026
The Next Web: Spirit Airlines data and the ombudsman, checked 9 Oct 2026
Everything read from this source (4)Archived copy, 15 Oct 2026
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