Bruce Bell
UK Guide 2025
Band 2 : Restructuring/Insolvency
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About
Provided by Bruce Bell
Practice Areas
Bruce Bell is a partner in the Finance Department of the London office of Latham & Watkins and Global Vice Chair of the Restructuring & Special Situations Practice.
He advises a range of stakeholders on lending, restructuring, and insolvency matters, including borrowers/debtors, sponsors/equity holders, and lenders/creditors. He has been one of the leading practitioners of English law creditor schemes of arrangement in recent years, both for restructuring troubled businesses and for providing consumer compensation in retail financial services.
He focuses particularly on cross-border debt restructurings, and has been involved in many of the most high-profile restructurings in Europe since the global financial crisis.
In 2010, Bruce was seconded to BP as treasury counsel to assist with the financial consequences of the Deepwater Horizon incident. In 2001, he was seconded to Barclays Capital to work in the bank’s leveraged finance team. His knowledge of debt documentation and debt capital structures combined with his exposure to crisis management and restructuring situations in large publicly listed corporates, makes him a versatile and experienced practitioner and someone who has a reputation for solving some of the most difficult problems for clients.
Chambers Review
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Bruce Bell has considerable expertise spanning the gamut of restructuring and insolvency matters, with particular experience handling high-profile recapitalisations. He is particularly adept at acting for debtor companies but is also a capable adviser to creditors.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Bruce is a very strong lawyer. He has his clients' interests at the heart of all that he does, and he provides pragmatic and commercial advice."
"Bruce combines top-rate legal understanding with experience and commercial awareness. He maintains a holistic approach to complex situations while giving pragmatic and balanced advice."
"Bruce is a very safe pair of hands and clued in on all aspects of the particular deal he is working on."
"Bruce is a very strong lawyer. He has his clients' interests at the heart of all that he does, and he provides pragmatic and commercial advice."
"Bruce combines top-rate legal understanding with experience and commercial awareness. He maintains a holistic approach to complex situations while giving pragmatic and balanced advice."
"Bruce is a very safe pair of hands and clued in on all aspects of the particular deal he is working on."