About Amelia

Amelia is a commercial lawyer and advises private, government and not-for-profit clients in the following key areas:

• contract and procurement
• legislative compliance
• competition and consumer
• privacy and data protection
• intellectual property

Amelia has extensive experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, including services agreements, technology (including SaaS) agreements and intergovernmental agreements, advising on non-litigious contractual disputes, advising on legislative compliance and preparing applications for authorisation to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission under Part IV of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth).

Experience

• Department of Justice and Community Safety

  Advising the Department of Justice and Community Safety on a major procurement project related to justice transport services. Amelia provided strategy advice, prepared contracts and related documents and reviewed RFTs and specifications.

• Solar Victoria (Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action)

  Advising on the $1.3 billion Solar for Homes program including on legislative, governance and compliance issues.

• Department of Families, Fairness and Housing

  Advising on the Commissioner for Gender Equality in the Public Sector’s powers and functions under the new Gender Equality Act 2020 (Vic).

• Services and technology contracts

  Advising private and public sector clients on outsourcing, ICT and related services procurement and development including tendering and ICT procurement dispute avoidance and resolution strategies and non-litigious dispute resolution.

• Privacy and data security

  Advising in relation to all aspects of privacy and data protection compliance.

• Competition and consumer law

  Advising regulators and public and private sector organisations on regulatory compliance under a range of regulatory schemes, including the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth).

• Intellectual property

  Advising in relation of copyright and trade mark protection and licensing, and commercialisation of research product.

• Security of critical infrastructure

  Advising on compliance with the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 (Cth).