Kate is a Partner in the Tech Law team in KWM's Melbourne M&A group.
Kate works across commercial and government clients in a broad range of sectors, including telco, energy, infrastructure and transport, financial services and health.
Kate specialises in advising on complex and strategically significant commercial matters, including negotiating long term business critical services contracts and joint-venture arrangements. Kate also supports private M&A transactions, including core transaction documents and due diligence.
Kate also provides regulatory advice on all things telco, radcomms, space and satellite, and typically works on projects in highly regulated industries.
Kate also has a special interest in developing new ways to solve legal problems, and working with clients to think differently about how to approach legal support and communicate legal advice.
Kate's recent work highlights include:
- AEMO transfer of functions to VicGrid: Advising AEMO on the proposed transfer of its Victorian TNSP functions to the Victorian Government.
- Plenti: acting for ASX-listed Fintech Plenti in its strategic partnership arrangement with NAB for secured auto/EVs and renewables lending. Kate lead the negotiation of the strategic partnership agreements for the launch of co-branded products.
- IAG: supporting IAG’s supply chain optimisation projects over several years, including negotiation of joint ventures, share and asset sale arrangements, long term commercial agreements, and ongoing implementation support.
- Public transport ticketing system: acting for the incumbent operator in Victorian Government retendering for the Myki ticketing system.
- Telstra: supporting commercial contract negotiations for whole of business telecommunications services agreements, including reviewing submissions in response to tender requests, drafting contracts and attending negotiations, and negotiation of long-term critical services agreements with various Government departments for the support of telecommunications services and emergency alerts solutions, and Government grant funding for additional telco infrastructure.
- Various corporates including WEX, KMD Brands, South32 and Telstra: advising on bespoke supplier contracts, including BCG digitisation, complex McKinsey cost–out engagement, Infosys and DXC interim DevOps engagements, and agile app development.
- Telstra: Providing strategic advice on various aspects of spectrum allocation under the Radiocommunications Act, including supporting spectrum auctions and negotiated commercial spectrum arrangments.
- Amaysim: Advising on Amaysim's acquisition of a number of mobile virtual network operators.
