Virtual Event |
Baker McKenzie
Overview (Program Summary)
A program hosted by:
ACC Australia
Baker McKenzie, together with ACC Australia, are pleased to present the 2025 Commercial Contract Law Series - a must-attend program designed exclusively for in-house counsel.
Each session in this series will dive deep into a key area of commercial contracting, offering practical insights and legal updates to help you stay ahead in a fast-evolving landscape.
Red Tape & Risk: Government Contracting
In this final session of the series, Partners Georgie Farrant and Anne Petterd will unpack some of the traps that can catch even experienced suppliers to government and recent areas of focus for government procurement.
Key points of discussion will include:
• Scrutiny: Ensuring the business understands the implications that can come with rules for spending public money and oversight of government projects.
• Geopolitics in Procurement: Expanded checks—especially on foreign ownership and control.
• Public Official Risk: Knowing when performance of a contract may result in the supplier or its personnel being deemed to be a public official.
• Conflicts and Corruption in Procurement: How to mitigate risk.
• Limited Legal Remedies: When tenders or contracts go wrong, being aware of limited recourse against government bodies.
We hope you'll be able to join us.
Speakers
Anne Petterd, Partner, Baker McKenzie
Anne Petterd is a partner in the Commercial, Data, IP and Trade (CDIT) group at Baker McKenzie in Sydney. Anne specialises in IT and telecommunications supply arrangements; understanding regulatory issues for online, telecommunications and IT businesses (in particular for data management); and trade regulatory and commercial contracting advice.
Anne regularly leads projects for drafting, localising or rolling out commercial agreements of data protection policies for multiple jurisdictions in Asia Pacific and conducting due diligence for undertaking new activities in Asia Pacific markets.
Key industry sectors in which Anne works are TMT, defence and public sector, consumer goods and retail, financial services, healthcare and automotive. Anne has worked extensively on privacy and data regulatory compliance and data breach projects in Australia and across APAC.
Georgie Farrant, Partner, Baker McKenzie
Georgie Farrant is a partner in the Dispute Resolution group at Baker McKenzie in Sydney. Georgie has over 25 years of experience advising on litigation and compliance issues in both Australia and the UK. This includes time seconded to both a regulator (the UK Listing Authority, investigating and enforcing breaches of the UK Listing Rules and assisting with the development of the market abuse regime) and to a corporate (HSBC Investment Bank's Compliance team). She is a member of Baker McKenzie's Global Investigations, Compliance & Ethics Steering Committee.
Georgie advises companies and individuals in relation to bribery and corruption issues, anti-money laundering, insider trading, fraud, risk assessments and whistleblowing issues both locally and in relation to multinational investigations. She has experience in internal investigations, regulator investigations, civil and criminal proceedings, risk assessments and advising on policies and procedures.
Notes
*Competitor Exclusion – ACC Australia Partner’s may request that representative/s of a competitor organisation/s registered for the event be excluded, and ACC Australia reserves the right to make the final decision as to whether a registration is rejected. As a guide, a competitor organisation could be defined as a rival organisation of similar size to the host Corporate Partner, with an established practice, product or service in the area being showcased by the Corporate Partner’s at the event. Please provide a brief statement as to why you have deemed an organisation to be a competitor, in support of any request to ACC Australia to reject a registration.
* Please note that registrations are being managed by Baker McKenzie. Please let ACC Australia know if you have not received your confirmation within 24 hours.
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