Jake Grant Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Brisbane, Australia

Sydney

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia

• managing the communications and commercial legal team (3 senior legal counsel) including acting as an escalation point; managing team budget and external counsel and tracking team performance against internal and.
• building and maintaining relationships with executive members of the communications, media, marketing, government relations and disconnection and migrations teams;
• advising on all communications to promote the NBN, its benefits and its products to customers, industry and communities; supporting NBN Co’s brand and defensive IP strategy; lead legal support on cross functional.

Sydney, Australia

• Senior Legal Counsel in Strategy and Commercial team.
• implementing agreement with Telstra to disconnect its copper, HFC and certain interim networks and to only use the NBN as the fixed line connection to premises;
• use of Telecommunications Act powers to facilitate access to NSW utility infrastructure;
• securing authorisation with Optus for access to 27 GHz spectrum licences for NBN Co’s satellite service;
• early access agreement with Nextgen to allow NBN Co to access the Regional Backbone Blackspots Program (RBBP) Network for the transit build;
• acquisition of the Perth Pit & Pipe network from Nextgen.

London

• Senior Solicitor in Consumer Services and Terminals, within the Group Legal Corporate and Commercial team;
• Team Management: working closely with head of the team to ensure business units have effective legal support; assisting with recruitment; matter allocation; supervising, delegating to, mentoring and supporting the.
• Contract Management: leading the legal support for the terminals contract management initiative, presenting to heads of commercial on the risks of poor procurement practice and strategies to address this; responsible.

• Preparing contract negotiation guidelines and supplier contract briefing packs; drafting and advising on service level, agency and distribution, development, manufacturing agreement and supply, reseller, consultancy.
• Due Diligence and Commercial and IP/IT reports on proposed share purchase of outsourcing services supplier, share purchase of an aerospace company, share purchase of a dental practices company, share purchase of.
• drafting, advising and negotiating website services agreements, privacy policies, website terms and conditions and relevant UK laws for websites; software licence, support and maintenance agreements; hardware supply.
• advising on IP issues in joint collaboration projects; trade mark licensing and transfer issues in business sale transactions; managing trade mark infringement, disputes and trade mark oppositions and advising on.

London, United Kingdom

• secondment: supporting and advising procurement and operations teams on acquisition of goods and services; advising inbound, outbound and dropship fulfilment logistics teams; negotiating and drafting pan-European.
• working with external counsel to advise HR teams at UK fulfilment centres and corporate HR team on employment and immigration matters, including the implications of a new points-based system for migrant workers and.
• supporting and advising customer services team on Sale of Goods Act and responding to escalated customer issues;
• supporting facilities teams in the termination and review of electricity and gas supply contracts;
• advising on data sharing issues with third party access to Amazon employee personal data, third party requests for personal data and notifications to the UK ICO.

Sydney, Australia

• secondment: commercial manager for the Wholesale and Satellite focus unit and legal support for the Wholesale and Regulatory legal group;
• exposure to a variety of commercial and regulatory work in the telecommunications industry: agreements for the supply of telecommunications services; agreements for the provision of access to Optus’ and third party’s.

• drafting, negotiating and advising on standard terms and conditions for the supply and acquisition of goods and services, distribution, outsourcing, research and development, sponsorship and service level agreements;
• setting up and advising offshore organisations establishing Australian operations;
• corporate advice on shareholder agreements, changing auditors, company names, registered offices and directors.
• drafting, negotiating and advising on contracts dealing with the ownership, licensing and exploitation of intellectual property, contractor and confidentiality agreements;
• advising IP creators on the protection and exploitation of IP and undertaking IT/IP due diligence for mergers and acquisitions and IT outsourcing projects;
• advising on and commencing proceedings pursuant to the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy.

Sydney, Australia

• secondment: sole legal counsel for Australia and New Zealand; legal review of all Apple marketing and advertising materials and promotions; advising on trade mark and copyright issues;
• trade practices, privacy and spam advice; company secretarial matters; briefing and managing external counsel;
• advising and negotiating distribution, reseller and agency agreements and tender responses.

Sydney, Australia

• secondment: direct report to new General Counsel as sole legal support;
• legal review of all marketing materials for prize competitions, advertising campaigns and promotions; sponsorship and marketing agreements; advising on confidentiality and trade practices issues;
• supply contracts, software licence, support and maintenance agreements; contentious IT, employment and workplace surveillance matters.

Law And Psychology

Bachelor of Laws. Australian National University, graduated 2000 (Honours, Class 2A, thesis: “How Social Psychology can assist/inform.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Rugby, swimming, debating