Bridie McWhirter

Senior Associate

About Bridie

Bridie works on both transactional and litigious matters, advising clients from the private, public and not for profit sectors on a range of matters. 

Bridie works extensively for State Government departments and agencies providing advice on the application of various legislation, procurement and prosecutions.

Bridie’s areas of practice include:

  • contract and procurement
  • IT
  • privacy
  • general commercial

Experience

  • Technology, Cyber and Privacy
    • Advising public sector organisations on dealing with privacy and data breaches and responding to investigations by the Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner.
    • Advising private sector clients on prviacy obligations under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and reporting notifiable data breaches to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
    • Advising public sector clients on telecommunications, IT services, and general services agreements.
  • Commercial Advice
    • Drafting template agreements for public and private sector clients, including goods and services agreements, confidentiality deeds, and information sharing agreements.
    • Undertaking contract due diligence of private and publicly funded entities for the purposes of assessing their obligations for proposed sales or winding up of the entities.
    • Undertaking legislative compliance reviews of private and public entities for the purpose of assessing the entities’ obligations under legislation.
    • Advising various private and public sector clients on intellectual property ownership and disputes.
    • Setting up corporate entities, discretionary trusts and Self-Managed Superannuation Funds for private clients and professional service firms.
    • Drafting services agreements for a range of public and private sector clients.
    • Drafting amendments to company constitutions to reflect appropriate corporate governance.
    • Drafting agency agreements for property developer clients
  • Energy
    • Advising a large consumer interest group on the potential opportunities for consumer engagement in the limited merits review of pricing decisions in the gas and electricity markets.
    • Advising a large consumer interest group on the implications of pricing decisions of the Australian Energy Regulator.
    • Advising a council client on various issues involved in connecting an embedded generator to the electricity grid.
    • Advising a property developer client on embedded network contribution payments from electricity retailers.
    • Advising a client on the contractual arrangements associated with the Melbourne Renewable Energy Project

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