Bio
E. Bruce Leonard is a veteran in the field of international insolvency and is founding member, chair and director of the International Insolvency Institute. He has served for many years as a delegate to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law in relation to its work on its Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency and Legislative Guide on Insolvency Law.
He currently serves as co-chair of the American Law Institute/International Insolvency Institute Project on Global Principles of Co-operation in International Insolvency Cases. Bruce has acted for the Canadian federal government on a number of extremely time-sensitive issues, including cross-border bankruptcy, mergers and acquisition, financing and litigation.