Profile
Jen has over 10 years’ experience in corporate & commercial law, and also specialises in cyber security, data protection, privacy & technology matters, and in international trade and export.
Jen works with a broad range of clients from ASX-listed companies, proprietary companies, to family-owned businesses, and individual directors, shareholders and investors.
Jen compliments her corporate and commercial expertise with her accounting and dispute resolution skills when working on transactional work (including M&A, investments, capital raisings and IPOs), drafting, negotiating and advising on contracts, risk management, compliance and governance, asset protection, structuring, remuneration and incentives and other commercial operational matters.
Jen is very tech/cyber-savvy and assists clients with the legal aspects of cyber security, helping them to comply with their legal obligations, privacy, drafting the legal sections of incident response management plans, preparing pre-drafted notification statements, managing the legal issues associated with a cyber-security incident, and drafting security clauses in contracts. She also works with cyber security professionals and firms in managing their own liabilities and risks in their own contracts. Jen is regularly invited to speak on panels and seminars as a cyber-security lawyer, and is known by many in the industry as neatly complimenting the services provided by cyber security technical professionals.
Jen also works with SMEs on their export endeavours, foreign investments, and on international transactions, and is a speaker for the Export Ready Program run by the government and Business SA.
Expertise
Recognition
“Jen is our trusted legal adviser and her intellect and understanding of the law, commercial issues and strategy is well beyond her peers. We have found Jen to be very commercial when dealing with us and during negotiations with other counterparties on strategically complex and significant acquisitions and highly technical and complex financial services work. She has been invaluable when providing advices which have required an in-depth understanding, knowledge and analysis of extremely complex areas of law, policy and regulation”.
Client Testimony: Australian Financial Institution – Head of Legal
Accolades
- Lawyers Weekly 30 under 30 Awards – 2015 Finalist in Corporate M&A category