Bruce Mackie Buck (born March 1946) is an American lawyer and founding managing partner of the

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office of

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. He was also the Chairman of

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. His practice areas are European

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and capital markets.

Law career

Bruce Buck has been practising law in Europe since 1983. He left

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for England in 1983 for a “standard tour of duty” of two or three years with his previous law firm

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. 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 Football Club

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 (

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), through which he came to advise Russian-Israeli billionaire

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, formerly the majority shareholder in Sibneft. The £140 million acquisition of all of the outstanding shares of the

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-listed company Chelsea Village plc was his first experience of taking over a football club. Buck remained in his role, despite the ownership change at Chelsea in May 2022. However this changed on 20 June 2022, when the club announced that he would be stepping down from his role effective 30 June. Though he would continue to work for the club as a Senior Advisor. the chairman role has been replaced by club co-owner

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References

External links

Bruce Buck's biography
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