Margaret Gigliotti
Clayton Utz
Special Counsel
Melbourne
Overview
A highly experienced lawyer specialising in drafting and negotiating complex technology, telecommunications and IP contracts. Having dual qualifications in law and computer science, she is passionate about technology and uses her technical background to bring a deep understanding of the technical and commercial issues facing her clients to bear when advising them on mission-critical IT projects.
Notable Work
- Acting for the Department of Transport and Planning in relation to contracts for the operation and replacement of the Myki system.
- Advised the Department of Premier and Cabinet on the negotiation of State Purchase Contracts with Microsoft, Oracle, AWS and Google.
- Advised ANZ on the negotiation of software licences and cloud procurement arrangements with vendors including Oracle and SAP.
- Advised the Emergency Services Telecommunications Network on licensing and development of 000 call taking software.
- Advised on Victoria's emergency service telecommunications networks including the Metropolitan Mobile Radio network, Regional Mobile Radio network, Mobile Data Network, StateNet Mobile Radio Network and emergency alert service.
- Advised Monash university on the acquisition of a new student management system.
- Advised nbn on the negotiation of contracts including satellite operations services and network rollout and maintenance agreements.
- Advised Registration and Licensing Services Victoria in relation to establishment of IT systems to transition to provision of the State's licensing and registration functions.
- Acted for Optus in negotiating enterprise-wide telecommunications service agreements with customers including GE Australia.
- Advised on intellectual property, privacy and technology aspects of a number of government commercialisation and modernisation projects including the commercialisations of the Victorian Land Titles Registry, the Port of Melbourne and the Port of Darwin.
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