Profile
Renee is a partner in our Wellington corporate and commercial team, with deep expertise in technology, media and telecommunications (TMT), artificial intelligence and emerging technology, government and defence procurement, complex commercial contracting, payments and financial services, and corporate transactions.
Renee brings over 20 years' TMT experience to her practice, including advising on AI-driven solutions, and drafting and negotiating large-scale and complex ICT and outsourcing contracts for both public sector and private clients. She is highly experienced in government and defence procurement, e-commerce, data licensing, data protection and privacy, and intellectual property commercialisation.
Renee also advises on corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and capital raising, and on the development of financial applications and payments products for financial institutions, fintechs and corporates.
Renee's experience spans a diverse range of industries including banking, defence, telecommunications, transit, media, energy, government and aviation. She is trusted by large and small organisations alike to develop key contractual relationships, commercialise intellectual property and develop customer terms.
"The strong and pragmatic focus of Renee and the Buddle Findlay team in partnering to develop the agreements ensured an excellent outcome for all our stakeholders"
- Current client
"Renee Stiles is well-versed in the drafting and negotiation of ICT and outsourcing contracts."
Legal 500
- Recognised as a 'Next Generation Partner' for TMT by Legal 500
- Member of the Institute of Information Technology Professionals
- Associate Chartered Accountant
Work highlights
Advising Southland Building Society (SBS), a registered bank
on the negotiation of contracts for the design, implementation and support of a new cloud-based banking platform to replace SBS's legacy banking systems (the Future Bank Programme), the biggest development in SBS's 155-year history, involving extensive negotiation with the UK based platform vendor and implementation partner
Advising the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) and Ministry of Transport
on the procurement of an all of government, AI-driven maritime domain awareness system (Data Fusion Solution) to identify, assess and mitigate maritime threats to New Zealand, including drafting and negotiating the master services agreement, creating service delivery agreements, drafting a memorandum of understanding governing access by approximately 20 government agencies, and negotiating a related agreement with Kordia Limited for Terrestrial Automatic Identification System data
Advising BV Investment Partners
on aspects of its strategic investment into Kami, a leading classroom engagement and teacher productivity content provider to the US and global K12 market
Advising the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE)
on its AoG banking return to market procurement process for transactional banking, foreign exchange, payment and card services, including advising and assisting with all phases of the procurement process and leading negotiations with respondents that have been shortlisted for appointment to the panel of providers. Negotiations are expected to conclude in mid 2023
Advising Hutt City Council, GWRC and Waka Kotahi
in relation to the Riverlink project focussing on partnering and commercial contract arrangements, including aligning partnering governance and funding agreements with the Waka Kotahi standard form Alliance documentation
Advising MBIE
in relation to the establishment of a cloud framework agreement TechnologyOne working alongside MBIE's finance systems, control and procurement team, to negotiate the terms of the agreement, including liaison with a cross government governance group (consisting of key agencies who wish to transition to TechnologyOne's cloud services)