Bruce MacNeil

Asset Finance, Banking and Finance, Corporate, Debt Capital Markets, Derivatives, Fund Finance, Islamic Finance, Leveraged Finance, Listing Services, Private Equity, Real Estate Finance, Regulatory, Restructuring and Corporate Recovery, Structured Finance, Sustainable Finance, Sustainable Investing and ESG

Bruce is a partner in the Jersey Banking and Finance team. He has represented a wide range of banks, lenders and companies on banking, derivatives, corporate, finance and restructuring transactions. He advises on leveraged finance transactions, restructuring and insolvency matters and high yield listings on The International Stock Exchange (TISE).

Bruce is part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Restructuring and Insolvency team, specialising in refinancing, corporate restructuring and reorganisation and formal insolvency procedures. His experience includes advising lenders and sponsors on security enforcement, directors' duties and insolvency issues for distressed corporate groups.

He is part of our multi-disciplinary Private Equity team, specialising in:

- advising financial institutions and private equity sponsors on leveraged finance and acquisition financing transactions

- acting as sponsor for listing notes on TISE and the Cayman Stock Exchange to take advantage of the quoted Eurobond exemption

- providing advice in relation to subscription credit and capital call facilities entered into by funds

- restructuring advice for creditors, insolvency office holders, directors, shareholders and other stakeholders of distressed funds and portfolio companies

Bruce has represented a wide range of banks, lenders and companies on banking, derivatives, corporate, finance and restructuring transactions. He also advises on leveraged finance transactions, restructuring and insolvency matters and high yield listings on The International Stock Exchange (TISE).

Admitted in:

2003 - England and Wales

2009 - New York

2013 - Jersey

Bruce is the author of the Jersey ISDA and ICMA netting and collateral opinions, various client briefings and the Jersey chapter of The Acquisition and Leveraged Finance Review. He is also the co-author of two PLC articles. The first on the new Security Interests (Jersey) Law provides a comparison of the Security Interests (Jersey) Law 1983 to the new law and describes the main changes which came into force in January 2014. The second is entitled 'Court and out of court restructuring options in Jersey and Guernsey’ and provides an overview of insolvency procedures under Guernsey and Jersey law.