Keith is a highly experienced technology and communications lawyer.
He specialises in providing legal and commercial advice on large transformation programs, outsourcing arrangements and sourcing and supply relationships.
He acts for major private sector clients in a diverse range of industries, including telecommunications, financial services, technology, aviation, energy and transport and logistics sectors.
Keith is valued by clients for his ability to analyse complex factual scenarios and issues and provide simple, clear and concise advice and recommendations that can be easily understood and acted upon.
Key legal and business adviser on its multi-year IT Transformation program, including data centre consolidation and relocations, migration to Microsoft 365, outsourcing of all IT services and functions to a centralised global provider, and development and implementation of its cloud enablement strategy.
Acted for Westpac on the establishment of its strategic alliance with Allianz, under which it sold Westpac-branded Allianz general insurance products to the Westpac customer base through all of its retail distribution channels and outsourced to Allianz all of the back-end administration of writing policies and managing claims.
Acted for Primary Healthcare on the outsourcing of its finance and payroll functions to TCS and the outsourcing of the telecommunications network linking its medical centres to Nextgen Networks.
Acted for Toll on key parts of its program to transform its information management function, including the outsourcing all telecommunications services for Asia-Pacific to SingTel Optus, global application development and maintenance functions to Infosys and consolidation of its global ERP systems into a single SAP cloud platform.
Acted for Qantas for more than 15 years on some of its major technology acquisitions and implementation programs, including the outsourcing of its data centre operations, network and telecommunications, project delivery services capability and end-user computing environment. Drafted a number of Qantas' standard IT and engineering procurement agreements.
Acted for BHP Billiton and Ausgrid on a number of major licensing and cloud deals with SAP, and acted for SAP on a wide range of on-premise and SaaS deals, including leading the engagements with the Commonwealth Government, DHS, Westpac, Stockland, Endeavour Energy and Energy Queensland.
Trusted adviser to Re.Group on numerous projects for the build and operation of material recycling facilities, food organics and garden organics processing facilities, its participation in various state container deposit schemes and its recycling processing contracts with councils in most states and territories.
Advised Ausgrid on the business transformation program required to support the partial privatisation of the network business, including its migration of all on-premise SAP solutions to cloud solutions, supported Ausgrid through the sale and transition of its retail business and acted for Ausgrid on all of its IT and telecommunication supply and outsourcing relationships for a number of years.
Acted for the University of Notre Dame Australia on its master services agreement with KPMG for development and implementation services for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and related technologies.
Acted for NBN Co on the outsourcing of the provision of wholesale end-to-end enterprise satellite services using NBN Co's SkyMuster satellite system and its project to deliver communications to aircraft via satellite.
Acted as one of Singtel Optus' key advisers for nearly 15 years, leading negotiations for a number of its major strategic initiatives, including its satellite acquisition and launch programs including the C1, D1, D2, ST-2 and Optus 10 satellites, satellite service sales agreements, the build of its 3G and 4G networks, its joint venture with Vodafone for the build of a shared 3G network and a number of its major M&A transactions.