Introduction
Bruce Maclean uses his decades of legal and commercial experience to offer comprehensive business services to New Zealand business owners.
His focus is on streamlining operations, enhancing growth, and helping clients achieve their goals through expertly tailored solutions.
Since leaving legal practice, I’ve been helping business owners with group reorganisations, start-up disputes, franchising, business mergers, contracting arrangements, and numerous other business issues. I can work with your lawyers and other advisors to get the job done.
EXPERTISE
Legal experience, but not a lawyer
Bruce Maclean Limited is not a law firm and Bruce is no longer in legal practice. While Bruce has decades of legal advisory and transactional experience, his focus is now on assisting clients from outside the profession.
Bruce helps clients with business challenges and optimising the use of professional services. This includes filling in-house gaps and taking on both short and long-term assignments.
Disclaimer: Bruce Maclean Limited does not do legal work or provide legal advice, and Bruce does not hold a practising certificate. Bruce Maclean Limited does not have a trust account or receive or handle client funds other than agreed fees for services.
Services
Bespoke offering
From due diligence and contracting, to in-house roles, I offer a wide range of customised services to New Zealand companies.
Have a look at the services I provide, or get in touch to discuss your particular requirements.
LEGAL AI
Do you really need a lawyer now that anyone can generate a document for most purposes using AI?
You may need a lawyer for quality advice, a product of intelligence, experience, resources and—most importantly—judgment.
Generative AI makes it possible for anyone to produce a document that appears to fit the circumstances.
If you have a complex business issue, the solution usually isn’t simply a document; you need advice and guidance that is sound, reasoned, and derived from experience. That’s where I can help.
Pricing
Simplified pricing
As I am no longer a lawyer and do not provide legal services I do not charge law firm rates. My hourly rates are $310 to $340, depending on the type of work, plus GST.
Long-term or special projects can be negotiated on a daily, weekly, monthly or other basis. Commission or success fees don’t apply, and I don’t charge for local travel, photocopying or other incidentals. If I can not help you or I refer you to a lawyer or other adviser, I will not charge for considering your situation. See Terms for further details.
Many of us will need to help relatives into aged care. It’s complicated. The quality of facilities, management and care is widely variable. At worst, the care isn’t care at all. There are some awful places out there with callous management and substandard buildings. Thankfully, some excellent facilities provide genuine care.
Is your business future-proofed and saleable, or should it be given away or closed?
Due Diligence should not just be a box-ticking exercise, and can be an expensive waste of resources if not targeted and comprehensive
Perspectives
