Profile: E Bruce Leonard

Mr Leonard is a member of the American Law Institute where he was the chair and co-reporter for Canada on the American Law Institute's Transnational Insolvency Project. He served as the co-chair of the government of Canada's bankruptcy and insolvency committee working group on international insolvencies and is a member of the Ontario Court of Justice Chief Justice's Committee on Commercial Law Proceedings. Mr Leonard is a past director of the American Bankruptcy Institute (1997-2000) and served as co-chair of the ABI's International Committee. He is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, an international member of the United States National Bankruptcy Conference and a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. Mr Leonard served as co-director of the LLM Program in Insolvency Law at the Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, Canada's only graduate programme in insolvency. Mr Leonard has been named in Canada's Top 500 Lawyers (Lexpert/American Lawyer) in its first four years of publication.

Mr Leonard is the co-editor of Current Developments in International Insolvencies and Reorganizations (Graham and Trotman, London 1994), and Multinational Commercial Insolvency (American Bar Association, Chicago 1993). Mr Leonard is a contributing editor of Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice and the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal and a member of the editorial board of Tolley's Insolvency Law and Practice (London). Mr Leonard has participated in most significant domestic and international reorganisational proceedings in Canada for many years.