Skadden and Chelsea's Bruce Buck steps down as London head
High-profile Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom partner Bruce Buck has stepped down as leader of the US firm's London office. The Chelsea Football Club chairman, who has led the London office since 1988, will continue as European head in a full-time fee-earning capacity.
February 10, 2014 at 06:40 AM
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High-profile Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom partner Bruce Buck has stepped down as leader of the US firm's London office.
The Chelsea Football Club chairman, who has led the London office since 1988, will continue as European head in a full-time fee-earning capacity.
He has been replaced in the London management role by former Moscow head and corporate finance partner Pranav Trivedi, who will now spend more of his time in the UK.
Buck is one of Skadden's major client relationship partners in Europe and responsible for the connection with Russian oligarch and Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich.
An adviser on a broad range of matters including mergers, acquisitions and capital markets transactions, Buck first came to Europe in 1983 as a partner at White & Case.
He helped spearhead Skadden's push into Russia, and Central and Eastern Europe in the early 1990s, and has helped oversee the firm's Russian practice since the opening of the Moscow office in 1992.
The change of role comes as part of a management-level reshuffle at the firm.
Trivedi will be replaced as head of the firm's Russia practice by Moscow-based partners Alexey Kiyashko and Dmitry Kovalenko, while London partner Douglas Nordlinger has moved into the role of global energy and infrastructure projects head.
Meanwhile, London partners Karyl Nairn QC and David Kavanagh have taken up positions as global co-heads of the international litigation and arbitration practice alongside New York partner John Gardiner.
All administrative appointments are made by Skadden's policy committee in New York, rather than through office partnership votes.
Nairn, who took silk last year, played a starring role in the firm's successful defence of Abramovich in his 2012 blockbuster legal battle with Boris Berezovsky.
In 2011 Kavanagh landed a major arbitration victory for the Alfa-Access-Renova (AAR) group in its dispute with BP over its proposed $16bn (£10bn) strategic alliance with Russia's Rosneft.
Last October, Legal Week reported Chelsea was set to hire its first in-house lawyer to work alongside Buck and club secretary David Barnard, and to report directly in to Chelsea's chief executive Ron Gourlay.
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