About Georgia

Georgia is an experienced commercial lawyer advising government, professional services and education organisations. Georgia’s areas of practice include information and technology, privacy, data security and general commercial matters. Georgia has particular experience advising on large-scale procurement projects. Georgia has a depth of experience acting for clients in relation to all phases of transformation projects, and regularly advises clients on privacy and data security issues. Georgia is sought out for her experience in highly complex procurement projects, including collaborative and joint procurement and major outsourcing activities.

Experience

• University of Adelaide / University of South Australia

  Georgia advised the Universities in connection with their procurement of a transformation partner in the historic proposed merger of the two institutions.

• Victorian Department of Justice and Community Safety

  Advising on a range of procurement matters, including procurement of services to implement a business critical system to manage transactions worth over $500 million in state revenue each year, and procurement of administrative services to support the functions of the Fines and Enforcement Services business unit.

• One of Australia’s largest accounting firms

  Acting on a project whereby it replaced all existing systems for finance, document management and CRM with a cloud-based SAAS solution. Reviewing and advising on supplier agreements and negotiating agreed outcomes with all suppliers, including Salesforce, iManage and FinanceForce. This project involved negotiating and agreeing six different agreements with vendors located in the US, Singapore, the UK and Australia.

• Collectives of Regional Councils

  Advising on the collaborative procurement of significant and business critical systems and solutions by various collectives of regional councils.

• SEC Victoria

  Advising SEC Victoria in its procurement of various systems necessary to start up the new entity.