BRUCE DAILEY’s practice involves representing issuers, investors and underwriters in private placement debt and equity transactions, syndicated bank lending transactions, secured transactions and complex structured financial transactions of all types. He has represented and has relationships with a broad range of financial services clients, including almost all of the major U.S. insurance companies and investment banks, and collateral/asset management firms in the U.S. and abroad.
Bruce has extensive experience in the field of U.S. cross-border institutional private placements. He has been involved in private placements out of virtually every jurisdiction in which such transactions have been done, including the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, the majority of Western Europe, Canada, Japan, Mexico, Asia and Russia.
Bruce is recognized as an established lawyer for U.S. capital markets law who frequently acts for Australian clients on debt private placement matters. He has been ranked as a Band 1 lawyer in the 2020-2024 editions of Chambers Asia-Pacific for U.S. law-based capital markets in the Australia chapter, with clients remarking, “Bruce is very easy to work with as he is very pragmatic, very commercial and understands his clients and what they need. I would describe him as the go-to lawyer for any Australian company looking to peep into the U.S. private placement market.”
He has also been ranked in the 2020-2023 editions of Chambers Global Capital Markets (US Law) in the Australia chapter and featured in the Spotlight Table of Chambers Global Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (Expertise Based Abroad) in the 2020-2023 editions, where he received praise as being “very reliable and provides excellent advice and continued support” to his clients.
Bruce is ranked in 2024 edition of The Legal 500 Australia, Capital Markets where a client notes, “Bruce Dailey is exceptional. Always available. Advice is always on point. Defines risks appropriately.”
He was also included in the 2013-2021 editions of Best Lawyers in Australia in the practices of banking and finance law, debt capital markets law, equity capital markets law and structured finance law.
Prior to becoming a lawyer, Bruce was a certified public accountant with a major U.S. accounting firm.