Charlie Potter

Charlie co-leads Brunswick’s global Litigation and Disputes practice from the London office. He has advised on some of the most high-profile, legally contentious issues for global corporate clients across a range of sectors in recent legal proceedings, investigations and wider disputes. He is also a partner in Brunswick’s Crisis and Family Business practices.

Charlie was formerly a barrister at Blackstone Chambers where he specialized in public, regulatory and commercial law, in particular broadcasting and media regulation. Before the Bar, he 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 (Hart, 2018) and the contributor of a chapter on Protecting Corporate Reputation in a Government Investigation in the GIR’s Practitioner’s Guide to Global Investigations (2019).

He has also written a guest chapter on family business and business family communications in the book Wise Family Business by Prof. Joachim Schwass and Anne-Catrin Glemser (Palgrave, 2016).

Charlie is ranked Band 1 of “Ranked Individuals” for his work in litigation communications by Chambers and Partners’ Litigation Support Guide 2024.