Bruce Buck
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"Bruce M. Buck" is an United States/American lawyer/attorney and founding managing partner of the London office of United States/American law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. He is also Chairman of Chelsea F.C./Chelsea Football Club. His practice areas are European mergers & acquisitions, project finance and capital markets work.

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I'm sure there'll be conversations about the tapping-up rule and let's see what develops. The rules could certainly be tweaked in this area.

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[Chelsea had borrowed heavily from financial institutions, principally to fund stadium development. Ruth Giste, the widow of the late club director Matthew Harding, had also demanded repayment of a significant sum loaned to the club.] Fans did not know that in January the club had mortgaged, if you will, the TV revenues, ... It borrowed against the TV revenues that were to be handed out in August.

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Montel has great hands, great speed, good height, excellent jumping ability -- all the qualities you look for. He does a great job of going to the ball.

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We are almost certainly going to appeal. We believe that attending the meeting (with Cole in January) did not go over the line... we think that the sanctions are totally disproportionate to the alleged sin.

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For the next five days, lawyers worked day and night; they gave us a lot of financial information, so we understood there was an urgency.

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We're very disappointed that Arsenal chose to pursue this course of action.

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You have seen the transfer spend go down just in one year and you will see it keep going down.

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[During July 2003, Abramovich paid a 15p-per-share premium on the trading price of a fortnight previously. Even the £17m this netted Ken Bates was initially insufficient for the then chairman.] I'm told he said he wanted more money, ... and Trevor said, 'Don't be ridiculous, this is more than you could have imagined'.

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