Bruce W. Leaverton
Shareholder | Seattle | 206.223.7389 | leavertonb@lanepowell.com
Areas of Practice
Bruce Leaverton is the chair of the Firm’s Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights Practice Group. His practice focuses on business finance and restructuring matters, representing borrowers, secured lenders, debtors, creditors’ committees, bankruptcy trustees, indentured trustees, and state and federal court receivers. He has considerable experience representing financial institutions and corporate clients in complex financial bankruptcies, restructurings, recapitalizations, intellectual property disputes, lender liability litigation, and mergers and acquisitions, both inside and outside of bankruptcy court. His representation of institutional lenders in distressed secured loan and workout matters is aided and informed by his considerable experience and understanding of the other side of the table, based on his representation of various corporate borrowers. His practice also includes a wide variety of litigation and administrative matters concerning financial and loan enforcement issues, including inter-creditor disputes and a variety of investigative and enforcement proceedings by government regulatory agencies.
Admitted to Practice
- Washington
- Texas (inactive)
Academics
- University of Oklahoma (J.D., 1983)
- Chief Articles Editor, Oklahoma Law Review, 1982-1983
- University of Kansas (B.A., with honors, 1975; M.A., 1978)
- Published Note: “Workers’ Compensation: Death Benefits are the Problem of Dependency,” 35 Okla. L. Rev. 182-92 (1982)
- International Academy of Trial Lawyers Award, 1983
- Instructor, Legal Writing, Paralegal Studies, University of Washington Extension, 1988
Practice Group and Specialty Team Memberships
- Chair, Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights Practice Group
- Business Crisis Management and Emergency Remedies
- Community Development Team
- Construction and Environmental
- Financial Institutions
- Litigation
- New Markets Tax Credits
- Real Estate
- Real Estate Litigation
Awards and Honors
- Named Best Lawyers® Seattle Banking and Finance Lawyer of the Year, 2011
- Recommended by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Bankruptcy/ Restructuring, 2008-2011
- Named as one of The Best Lawyers in America®, Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights, Banking and Finance, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization, Banking and Finance Litigation, Bankruptcy Litigation, 2005-2012
- Named as a “Washington Super Lawyer,” Super Lawyers magazine, Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights, 2005, 2007-2011
- Peer Review Rated “AV” in Martindale-Hubbell
Professional and Community Activities
- Creditor/Debtor Section of Washington State Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Frequent Lecturer at various seminars on Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Financial Matters
- Volunteer, Rebuilding Together
- Director and Secretary, Turnaround Management Association, Northwest Chapter