Yuban has been practising for over 25 years and assists clients throughout Australia and internationally. Before joining the firm Yuban was a partner in London at one of the UK’s largest law firms, CMS Cameron Mckenna, and for 7 years he was Special Counsel and Queensland Head of TMT and Sourcing at Herbert Smith Freehills.
Yuban’s expertise includes:
- IT, IP and communications including advising on the sourcing and supply of products, cloud services, systems, AI, networks, and ICT services and the creation, acquisition and exploitation of IP;
- Payments and financial services including advising on transaction banking and payment services, digital payments, partnering and sponsorship agreements and merchant acquiring;
- Commercial and procurement including advising on complex and general commercial contracts, government funding agreements, outsourcings, and government services; and
- Privacy including advising on cyber security, privacy notices and policies, marketing, data management, and off-shoring.
In the private sector Yuban has worked with organisations in various sectors including Afterpay, AUSREO, BHP, BOQ, Centuria Capital Group, CBA, Cognizant, Enzen, Envest, Healthdirect Australia, Intellihub, Lendlease, MLC Life, Mutual Marketplace, NAB, Rondo Building Services, St Vincent’s Health Australia, St John of God Health Care, Suncorp, Telstra, Yamaha and tech providers and payment service providers. In the public sector Yuban has advised State and Territory Governments (Australian Capital Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia), Commonwealth Government, UK Government and a European Central Bank.
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Experience
- State and Territory Governments Advising on their respective procurements of whole of government transaction banking and payment services from banks and payment service providers.
- Financial services institution Acting for over 10 months on multiple ICT infrastructure and application services procurements and a new policy administration system negotiating with multiple vendors.
- Major healthcare provider Advising on its procurement of its Electronic Medical Record solution for its hospitals throughout Australia and on its network modernisation programme with Optus and NTT and multiple other ICT procurements.
- Technology vendor Providing advice on its first to market supply agreements and joint venture with State owned Tasmanian Networks for the development, licensing and support and maintenance of a Digital Twin of Tasmania.
- Big 4 bank Advising on strategic online acquiring sponsorship agreements, its standard agreements with payment gateway providers and payment facilitators, and its acquiring platform modernisation program.
- Healthcare provider Advising on clinical and general call centre agreements with multiple suppliers and the procurement of call centre and CRM technology systems and electronic prescription systems.
- Global corporate Providing advice on its multi-jurisdictional outsourcing of its global finance platform and on its global HR ICT system transformation project with HR cloud services provider Workday, and co-ordinating privacy advice in 10 jurisdictions.
- Government departments and agencies Advising on a range of technology and general procurement programmes, contracts and funding agreements including advising on and preparing standard templates.
- Financial services institution Advising on its template agreements for material outsourcings, material ICT services and general goods and services.
- Global technology vendor Providing advice on its playbook for the Australian market for large value ICT services and business process outsourcing contracts.