Preceded by Ken Bates Profession Lawyer | Name Bruce Buck Role Lawyer | |
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Alma mater Colgate University B.A.
Columbia Law School J.D. Education Columbia Law School, Colgate University, Columbia University Similar People Ron Gourlay, Ted Drake, Ken Bates, Roman Abramovich, Avram Grant | ||
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Bruce M. Buck is an American lawyer and founding managing partner of the London office of law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. He is also Chairman of Chelsea Football Club. His practice areas are European mergers and acquisitions, project finance and capital markets.
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- Bruce buck backs andre villas boas
- Friday night live with bruce buck part 1
- Law career
- Chelsea FC
- References
Friday night live with bruce buck part 1
Law career
Bruce Buck has been practising law in Europe since 1983. He left New York for England in 1983 for a “standard tour of duty” of two or three years with his previous law firm White & Case. Five years later he was headhunted by M&A specialists Skadden Arps to develop the firm's European practice from scratch and has stayed on ever since.
As the partner in charge of Skadden's European offices, his work includes a broad range of transactions in the capital markets area. Buck represents both European and non-European clients in a full range of crossborder financing transactions, generally in connection with equity offerings or high-yield and other debt financings.
Chelsea FC
Buck’s involvement with Chelsea began through his position as European head of the American law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Skadden Arps specialises in mergers, acquisitions and capital market transactions, and Buck had personally done legal work on a number of acquisitions for the Russian company Siberian Oil (Sibneft), through which he came to advise Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, formerly the majority shareholder in Sibneft.
The £140 million acquisition of all of the outstanding shares of the London Stock Exchange-listed company Chelsea Village plc was his first experience of taking over a football club.
