Special Counsel, Wellington

Damien Steel-Baker

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.

  • ICAgile Certified Professional


Work highlights

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 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