Charlie Potter

Career

Charlie co-leads Brunswick’s global litigation communications practice from the London office and has advised on a range of high-profile, legally contentious issues for global corporate clients in the context of litigation, investigations and wider crises. He is also a partner in Brunswick’s Family Business, Crisis, and Cybersecurity practices.

Charlie joined Brunswick in June 2012 from his practice as a barrister at Blackstone Chambers, where he specialised in public / administrative and commercial law, in particular broadcasting and media regulation.

As a barrister, Charlie was regularly instructed by Ofcom and other statutory regulators in various proceedings and advised commercial clients on a range of sensitive regulatory issues. He also acted for The Guardian newspaper in Max Mosley's appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Before the Bar, Charlie spent four years at the BBC, including as a producer at the flagship television news and current affairs programme Newsnight.

He is the co-author of Understanding Legislation: A Practical Guide to Statutory Interpretation (Bloomsbury, 2018) and has contributed (with Kevin Bailey) a chapter entitled “Protecting Corporate Reputation in a Government Investigation” to the GIR’s Practitioners Guide to Global Investigations.