Bio

Bruce Maclennan advises clients based in the U.S., Asia and Europe and the U.K. on structuring and executing complex cross-border business transactions, principally in the areas of private investment fund formation and the structuring of pooled and individual investment vehicles; private equity and venture capital investments; secondary market transactions; mergers and acquisitions; and the structuring of joint ventures, strategic alliances and customized business partnerships. Bruce also provides guidance to fund managers and investors on investment-related regulatory compliance under the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. Bruce’s practice focuses primarily on the financial, information technology, biotech, pharmaceutical, agritech and aircraft lease financing industries. He also acts as outside counsel for a global Japanese IT company for which he provides advice, coordinating with other attorneys with appropriate expertise when necessary, on a broad range of topics, including privacy, CFIUS, OFAC, import-export, employment, distribution chain, antitrust and technology licensing matters. Prior to joining White and Williams, Bruce practiced for 23 years in the Tokyo and New York offices of global AmLaw 100 firms. Prior to attending law school, Bruce undertook Ph.D. studies in East Asian Buddhism at the University of Michigan’s Rackham Graduate School. He suspended the Ph.D. studies to pursue a law degree at the University of Washington School of Law, where he was the Executive Articles Editor for the Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal, in which he published an article entitled “Establishing a Stock Corporation in Japan After the 1990 Revision of the Commercial Code.”