Special Counsel, Wellington
Damien Steel-Baker
Contact
- Wellington office
- DDI +64 4 498 7355
- M +64 21 681 433
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.
- 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