I joined the Commercial and Technology team at Bates Wells in February 2023 after qualifying and practising in New Zealand.
I work with a wide range of charities, purpose driven businesses and intellectual property focussed companies on a variety of matters specialising in innovative grant funding, commercial contracts and intellectual property matters. I enjoy understanding our clients’ goals, values and purpose to ensure we equip clients with meaningful and pragmatic advice.
I am passionate about technology, science and innovation. I have particular expertise in the Life Sciences.
- Advised a number of charities and businesses on licensing arrangements to support the commercialisation of their intellectual property, supporting them to expand their impact and operations.
- Advised a large medical research charity on a number of grants, consortium, and partnership agreements to support with the translation of medical research into patient impact.
- Advised a company that designs, develops and supplies generic and custom drug delivery systems on their supply agreements, commercialisation, and licensing of IP to a pharmaceutical developer and manufacturer.
- Advised a prominent UK award organisations on the procurement of a range of outsourced technology and on their operational terms within the vocational education sector.
- Advised a leading sports charity with their partnerships that will support the modernisation of their facilities to allow better access for the community.
- Assisted a UK based medical research charity on supply chain related matters with a particular focus on technology procurement.
- Advised a UK-based member organisation with reviewing their impact focus – identifying ways the client could embed the expectation arising from their existing member code of conduct into their relationship with suppliers.
- Advised a professional body responsible for education with a tender process for their publishing suppliers for books and journals as well as negotiating publishing agreements for their portfolio.
- Advised a children’s hospital charity with integrating a new AI customer relationship management tool into their databases.
- Advised a globally recognised Health, Safety and Environmental Qualifications body on technology procurement contracts for the bespoke development of technology platforms, integration and ongoing services.
- In my previous role in New Zealand, I supported the development of ‘Climate clauses for Aotearoa New Zealand’, legal mechanisms to support climate-based obligations in contracts that can be applied across multiple sectors and practices.