Bruce M. Buck is a founding managing partner of the London office of US law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates (a.k.a. Skadden, Arps, Skadden or SASM&F), founded in 1948, is one of the largest law firms in the world. Its headquarters is in New York City. The firm has approximately 1,750 attorneys in 21 offices. The... Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom ( J.D. redirects here; for alternate uses, see J.D. (disambiguation) J.D. is an abbreviation for the Latin Juris Doctor, also called a Doctor of Law or Doctorate of Jurisprudence, and is the law degree typically awarded by an accredited U.S. law school after successfully completing three years... J.D., Columbia University is a large private research university in New York City comprising, through its affiliates, five undergraduate colleges and sixteen graduate and professional schools. It was established in 1754 as Kings College and is the sixth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. The school, now... Columbia University 1970). He is also Chairman of Chelsea Football Club (also known as the Blues, previously known as the Pensioners), founded in 1905, is a Premier League football team that plays at Stamford Bridge football ground in South west London. Notwithstanding the clubs name, it is not actually based in the borough of Chelsea, but just... Chelsea Football Club. His practice areas are as follows:

 European Union/International Competition European M&A (Mergers & Acquisitions), project finance and capital markets work Privatizations 

Bruce Buck has been practicing law in Europe since 1983. 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 cross border financing transactions, generally in connection with equity offerings or high-yield and other debt financings.

Buck’s involvement with Chelsea Football Club (also known as the Blues, previously known as the Pensioners), founded in 1905, is a Premier League football team that plays at Stamford Bridge football ground in South west London. Notwithstanding the clubs name, it is not actually based in the borough of Chelsea, but just... 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 acquisition transactions for the Russian company Siberian Oil (Sibneft), through which he came to advise Russian billionaire Roman Arkadievich Abramovich ( Russian: Рома́н Арка́дьевич Абрамо́вич) (born October 24, 1966 in Saratov, Russian SFSR, USSR) is a Russian oil billionaire, referred to as one of... Roman Abramovich. Abramovich is a majority shareholder in Sibneft, which recently merged with rival oil company Yukos logo Yukos Oil Company (ОАО НК ЮКОС) is a petroleum company in Russia which, until recently, was controlled by Russian billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky and a number of prominent Russian businessmen. Khodorkovsky has been imprisoned, and others have fled Russia. Background Yukos is one... Yukos. Skadden advised the shareholders of Sibneft on the Yukos merger.

Buck 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 The phrase mergers and acquisitions (M&A) refers to the aspect of business strategy and management dealing with the merging and/or acquiring of different companies. Usually these occur in a friendly setting where officers in each company involved come together to go through a due diligence process to... M&A specialists Skadden Arps to develop the firm's European practice from scratch. He has stayed on ever since.

A sports fan all his life, it didn’t take long for him to be captivated by English football. As an acquisitions veteran, however, the £140 million acquisition of all of the outstanding shares of the London Stock Exchange-listed company Chelsea Village plc. is his first experience of taking over a football club.

Buck has been a Chelsea fan since the late 80s, and a season ticket holder for over 12 years. He is married with three sons, aged between 17 and 22, all of whom are Chelsea fans.

Reputedly 'the driest wit in law', according to the industry magazine The Lawyer, Buck is a veritable trove of quotable quotes:

"I am supposed to be in charge of all Skadden, Arps' European offices. But you know how it is: no-one listens to me in the office, no-one listens to me at home. It's slightly different now I have the Chelsea connection: they all want tickets."