Experience

• Department of Defence, Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group Provided commercial and legal advice to the Commonwealth, and in particularly to the Department of Defence, on many major acquisition and sustainment projects, including air, maritime, land, communications and joint projects. Advised on the Joint Strike Fighter Program and the Air to Air Refuelling Program.
• Department of Defence, Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group Assisted Defence in resolving major contractual disputes within the relevant law and policy framework. This includes the recovery of liquidated damages and other performance remedies, schedule rebaselining, warranty claims, assessing extension of time claims and variation claims, and resolving technical issues with capability.
• Commonwealth and State government Structuring and drafting contracts, licences, MOUs and inter-agency agreements, deeds, funding agreements.
• Commonwealth and State government Conducting market research and multi-phased procurement processes both in sole source and competitive tendering environments.
• Commonwealth and State government Developing documentation for collaborative industry engagement processes, and offer definition and improvement processes.
• Commonwealth and State government Assessing and structuring contractual allocation of risk and liability.
• Commonwealth and State government Evaluating tender responses, assessing non-compliance statements, preparing negotiation positions and conducting negotiations.
• Public and private sector clients Advised on various IT matters in each of the key areas of her expertise discussed above, including on cloud and data room arrangements, software licences, hardware and software support/maintenance agreements, and system integrator contracts.
• Intellectual property Advises on complex IP arrangements (including IP ownership, IP rights and limitations, and IP planning and management) for major projects. She advises on the granting of IP rights and the scope of IP licences under contract provisions, including issues associated with software, technical documentation and third party rights.