BRUCE J. L. LOWE is a partner in the Cleveland office of Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP. Mr. Lowe received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University in England. He is a Barrister-at-Law of the Middle Temple, having graduated from the Inns of Court School of Law in London, England. Mr. Lowe concentrates his practice in business bankruptcy, creditor's rights law and commercial litigation. He has served as Honorary Legal Advisor to Her Majesty's Consul and is currently Chair of the Great Lakes Region's British-American Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the British-American Business Council as its Midwestern U.S. Regional Representative. Mr. Lowe is also President of the Greater Cleveland International Lawyers Group. He is a frequent speaker at bankruptcy and commercial, real estate and litigation law seminars and has also lectured on the legal aspects of doing business in the U.K. Mr. Lowe is a member of the Cleveland, Federal, and American Bar Associations.  For many years, he has been listed as one of Northeastern Ohio's Leading Lawyers by Inside Business magazine, and as an Ohio Super Lawyer by Cincinnati Magazine. He is a former chair of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association's Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section, and a former co-chair of the William J. O'Neill Great Lakes Regional Bankruptcy Institute.

Over a nearly 30-year period, Mr. Lowe has counseled and represented virtually every type of major constituent party in interest in complex Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings and out-of-court workouts, and related litigation proceedings. He has also represented commercial and retail landlords and tenants in connection with complex bankruptcy-related and litigation matters, and he has also handled substantial representations in a wide variety of complex commercial and business litigation matters. Mr. Lowe has also handled a variety of complex matters involving receiverships and the enforcement of secured lender's rights against complex, major commercial properties and assets. He has also handled a wide variety of complex business, construction and real estate litigation matters, and has regularly represented a variety of parties in interest to bankruptcy matters involving construction companies and/or projects.

Mr. Lowe's significant recent engagements include the successful representation of a major investor and purchaser of assets in connection with Chapter 11 proceedings and related litigation involving the Claddagh Irish Pub and Restaurant chain (S.D. Ohio), a major bankruptcy trustee representation in In re: Richland Hospital, Inc. (N.D. Ohio), resulting in 100% recovery for unsecured creditors and substantial recoveries for other claims. Before that, Mr. Lowe represented General Electric Company, General Electric Capital Corporation, and Minnesota Power, Inc. in connection with multi-million dollar claims in the LTV Steel Company Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases (N.D. Ohio), and acted as local counsel for Minnesota Power in connection with its successful purchase of LTV's power generation plants in Northern Minnesota. Mr. Lowe was also significantly involved in the representation of the Superintendent of Insurance in Ohio in his capacity as the Liquidator of the P.I.E. Mutual Insurance Company, which until its liquidation proceedings, was the nation's largest medical malpractice insurance carrier. Mr. Lowe was also lead counsel to the unsecured creditors committee in the Chapter 11 cases of Economy Lodging Systems Inc., and ELS Lodging, Inc., f.k.a. Knights Lodging, Inc. (N.D. Ohio), the owners/franchisors of the Knights Inns motel chain. These were the most significant Chapter 11 cases in Cleveland during the second half of the 1990's, and achieved a distribution of almost 50% on allowed unsecured creditors claims.

Mr. Lowe is a member of the Board of Trustees of Easter Seals, Northern Ohio, and of Elefence International, Inc., a non-profit organization facilitating wildlife conservation and humanitarian projects in Africa.