Peter Jones
Peter is a market leading lawyer with over 25 years’ experience specialising in complex technology, digital and information transactions and regulations.
Peter advises clients operating in a broad range of sectors, including financial services, telecommunications, energy, consumer, government and defence.
He has significant experience advising on complex projects, often in relation to multi-jurisdictional technology initiatives and outsourcings, M&A acquisitions/disposals, large scale supply/capacity arrangements, IT separation requirements, systems integration projects, network acquisition/roll-outs, strategic developments and new technologies. He works closely with clients on ensuring contractual and commercial frameworks align with deal strategies to realise opportunities and minimise project risk.
Peter’s work has also increasingly involved deeper consideration of data/information as both an asset but also a potential risk, advising across the spectrum, from data commercialisation/sharing agreements and AI acquisition/deployment to cyber security resilience and breach response.
Peter has worked extensively in Australia and New Zealand as well as having worked on client secondments and long-term projects in Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Hong Kong.
His work often requires navigating regulatory requirements, in particular those arising from changes to business processes, the impact of sector-agnostic information regulation around data protection and AI and the effects of sector-specific regulatory requirements such as operational resilience requirements in connection with financial services.
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
- advising on a broad range of sourcing arrangements (both single vendor and multiple, "best-of-breed") for companies in New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. This has also involved advising corporations, agencies and government-owned entities on aspects relating to various commercial projects with respect to tendering processes and probity issues
- advising one of Australia’s leading insurance companies on 5 separate ITO and BPO transactions, involving a best of breed reorganisation of its internal capabilities over a 24 month period
- advising a leading Australian Bank on the renegotiation of its long term IT infrastructure outsourcing agreement, and subsequent transformation to different service-based delivery models including primary and secondary cloud and adoption of AI
- advising Digital Nasional Berhad on the wholesale contracting arrangements between it and mobile operators in connection with access to the DNB 5G network
- advising a Japanese multinational conglomerate on its role as a key provider to the Australian Department of Defence in connection with the supply of specific elements required for the manufacture and operation of the Mogami class frigate program
- advising clients on regulatory issues relating to the use of data and information, including use by third party service providers and risk allocation regimes. This has included advising on privacy requirements and policies, spam, data protection and cyber-security, including on a cross-border basis
- advising clients on data breaches and data vulnerability situations including a global airline on multiple regulator notifications and engagement with regulators during breach responses and post-breach remediation
- advising telecommunications companies on a range of network related projects and services engagements, such as:
- network element acquisition and deployment projects as well as access and associated services involving installation and maintenance services
- network acquisition and support agreements
- a broad range of network projects and information technology service initiatives
- advising government agencies on a number of IT acquisitions and implementation projects, such as the implementation of a panel of four global technology providers as suppliers of service integration for the Australian Government and a whole-of-state, whole-of-site intensive care patient clinical information system (including advice with respect to privacy implications)
Sectors
Background
University of Otago, New Zealand, Bachelor of Laws (Hons, first class), 1994.
Peter is admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia and is also admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.
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