Bruce Potter

Practice Areas

Bruce deals with corporate work, especially spin outs, acquisitions and disposals and management buy-outs as well as extensive advisory work on business recovery and insolvency across receivership, administrations and complex partnership and public and treaty body insolvency and transfers.

Bruce also deals with commercial work, especially in IT and information security, developing new legal models and mixed legal/advisory/educational approaches to new legal risks. Bruce supports organisational development and governance development across health and social care often working with multi-disciplinary teams from other professional disciplines.

The hallmark of his advice has been the combination of legal excellence with commercial acumen to deliver effective practical solutions for clients.

Clients

For the past 20 years, Bruce has worked on transactions for a wide variety of public sector companies, trusts and organisations. He has worked inside Whitehall both in the Department of Health, H M Treasury, Cabinet Office and DfE.

He has particular experience working with major UK health organisations including the Department of Health and NHS. Bruce has worked on the Procurement Guide, Competition Policy, Transactions Manual, TCS programme and other policy programmes. He has also led recent work on finding a future structure for the Mid Staffs NHS Foundation Trust through the innovative TSA process.