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ProfileBruce LeonardBruce is a partner in the firm's Restructuring and Insolvency Group. Bruce is a veteran in the field of international insolvency and has been prominently involved in a number of international associations. He is Immediate Past Chair of the International Bar Association's Committee on Insolvency and Creditors' Rights (comprising 1,200 lawyers from 80 countries); Founding Member, Chair and Director of The Insolvency Institute of Canada, a limited membership invitational organization of senior insolvency professionals in Canada established in 1990; Past Chair of the Insolvency Law Section of the Ontario Bar Association; and Past Vice-Chair of the International Bankruptcy Subcommittee of the American Bar Association's Business Bankruptcy Committee. Bruce is a Member of the American Law Institute, where he is the Chair for Canada and Co-Reporter for Canada for the Institute's Transnational Insolvency Project. He is a Life Patron Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and an international participant in the United States National Bankruptcy Conference. Bruce is also a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a Director of the American Bankruptcy Institute. He is Co-Director of the LL.M. Program in Insolvency Law at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, Canada's only graduate program in insolvency law. Bruce is a frequent writer and speaker on international insolvency and reorganizations and has authored or edited the following works: Co-Editor, Current Developments in International Insolvencies and Reorganization (Graham and Trotman, London, 1994); Co-Editor, Multinational Commercial Insolvency (American Bar Association: Chicago, 1993); Author, Guide to Commercial Insolvency in Canada (Butterworths 1988). In addition, he is a Contributing Editor of Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice, a Contributing Editor to the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal and a member of the Editorial Board of Tolley's Insolvency Law and Practice (London). As a practitioner, Bruce has been involved in many of the most significant reorganization cases in Canada and internationally, including, among others: Olympia & York, Confederation Life Insurance, Johns-Manville, Cadillac-Fairview, Dome Petroleum, Massey-Ferguson, Bramalea Inc., Everfresh Beverages, Standard Trustco, Eaton's of Canada, Canadian Airlines International, Stelco Inc., Air Canada, Nortel Networks and AbitibiBowater. Bruce also acted as lead agent for the Federal Government of Canada in connection with the court-supervised sale of both General Motors and Chrysler. The transaction involved over US$12.5 billion of new Canadian Government financing and included a host of extremely time-sensitive issues, including cross-border bankruptcy, M&A, financing and litigation. Bruce is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, teaching the International Insolvency segment of the University of Toronto’s Global Professional Master of Laws Program.
EducationLL.B., Osgoode Hall Law School, 1968 Achievements
Call to the barOntario, 1970 Associations
Practice Areas Publications and Resources In The News Cassels Brock Recognized In Chambers Global 2012 15 Cassels Brock Lawyers Recognized by Who’s Who Legal: Canada 2011 Bruce Leonard Chairs American College of Bankruptcy Panel Presentations Bruce Leonard to Present at Annual Meeting of the American Law Institute Bruce Leonard to Present to the Council of the American Law Institute Newsletters International Insolvency Institute 12th Annual Conference: Paris, France June 21 - 22, 2012 Insolvency Watch: Arctic Glacier Obtains Court Protection to Conduct Search for New Investors Insolvency Watch: Union of Canada Life to Be Wound Up Due to Inadequate Capital and Deteriorating Finances Newsletter Articles Professional Notes - December 2010 Professional Notes - October 2010 Professional Notes - September 2010 International Insolvency Institute Rome Conference International Insolvencies |