Bruce is a lawyer in our corporate & commercial team specialising in projects and transactions involving infrastructure, technology assets and services.
Bruce is a member of Chapman Tripp's Board. He is recognised as a leading lawyer in New Zealand for IP/TMT (Telecommunications, Media and Technology) by Asia Pacific Legal 500, Chambers Global and Experts Guide to the World’s Leading TMT Lawyers.
Bruce was formerly a partner with another major New Zealand firm. Prior to becoming a lawyer, he worked as a computer professional both in North America and New Zealand.
Recent experience
Bruce has advised:
- M-Com, a global leader in mobile banking and mobile payment solutions, on its strategic alliance agreement with Fiserv, the world’s largest service provider to banks and investment advisors
- ASB Bank on the upgrade and replacement of its treasury systems
- Meridian Energy on the upgrade of hardware, operating system and applications components of its Generation Control System (GCS), to remotely control, monitor and manage Meridian Energy’s electricity generation plant portfolio
- Telecom on the outsourcing of its 3PL and 4PL operations (comprising end-to-end procurement, logistics and strategic sourcing of mobile devices)
- the Ministry of Education on the outsourcing of the schools payroll system, New Zealand’s largest and most complex payroll
- Beca Group, New Zealand’s leading engineering and consultancy services group
- Electronic Transactions Systems on all aspects of New Zealand’s principal ATM, EFTPOS, and card payment and settlement systems, and
- on mergers & acquisitions, particularly in relation to the acquisition and disposal of technology companies, including Marten Spars (for Southern Spars), Office Automation Systems (for Axon), Oxygen (for Carter Holt Harvey), Onesource (for Hanover Group), Computerland and Gen-i (for Telecom); and financial investments in, and for, start-up and spin-out technology companies.