Damien Steel-Baker

Profile

Damien specialises in technology, media and telecommunications and general commercial law. Damien has particular expertise in advising Government clients on their most significant projects, including all elements of the procurement process, contract drafting and negotiation, and multi-agency agreements. Damien also specialises in advising clients on the use of modern technologies and processes, including areas such as data protection and the legal aspects of ICT security, and the use of agile project methodologies.

Market recognition

Damien is listed as a 'leading associate' for TMT by Legal 500

ICAgile Certified Professional

Work highlights

Advising Statistics New Zealand

on the procurement process to replace the software platform used for calculating and publishing key statistics, which includes the Consumer Price Index and Labour Cost Index. We produced the draft contract released with the tender and led the negotiation and drafting of the final contract with the successful supplier

Advising the Government

on a number of its most significant framework agreements with international software and cloud services suppliers, through which all government agencies can purchase software and services

Advising one of the largest government departments

on the procurement of its foundational outsourced ICT services, for a value of up to $500m over ten years

Providing advice to clients

procuring infrastructure with a that includes significant ICT components, including a State Owned Enterprises and Crown entities procuring multi million dollar machinery with associated software

Advising on a wide range of commercial matters

including funding and sponsorship agreements, the establishment of various certification programmes and general services contracts

Advising on cloud computing issues

such as off-shore hosting of core business systems in Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, data protection, security, and regulatory compliance

Advising a Crown entity

on the cloud hosting and support for one of New Zealand's largest databases of personal information

Negotiating and drafting complex technology agreements

including for cloud computing, system build and configuration, support agreements, and outsourcing

Advising on procurement processes, documents and evaluation of responses

for large procurement projects, including compliance with government's procurement obligations

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