In-house Counsel services
IN-HOUSE COUNSEL
Anna Thorburn Legal offers in-house legal services. Whether you are looking to cover a leave period or you need an extra resource to manage your team’s workload, we can assist you. We understand the importance and value of a high-quality, senior legal resource who can step into the team and hit the ground running to support you and your internal clients. Anna is a pragmatic and commercially-astute lawyer with top-tier training and broad in-house experience, including 5 years as General Counsel of a global Software as a Service company.
OUTSOURCED GENERAL COUNSEL FOR TECH BUSINESSES
Anna Thorburn Legal offers ‘Outsourced General Counsel’ services to businesses looking to obtain quality in-house legal services from an experienced senior lawyer.
At Anna Thorburn Legal, we recognise that as tech businesses grow, their legal needs become more complex and there comes a time where it makes financial and practical sense to bring the legal work ‘in house’. However, it is often hard to obtain designated budget for a permanent legal head-count in the early years.
Anna Thorburn Legal offers ‘Outsourced General Counsel’ services where we can provide ad hoc or semi-regular legal services. Our Principal has experience in establishing legal teams within tech businesses, reviewing and drafting precedent agreements, advising on data protection/privacy and helping to prepare tech businesses for capital raisings. We are happy to discuss your needs.
Commercial legal advice
TECHNOLOGY/SAAS CONTRACT REVIEW AND NEGOTIATION
Anna Thorburn Legal has substantial experience in reviewing and negotiating SaaS and technology contracts. Companies are increasingly moving towards purchasing cloud-based services. By engaging Anna Thorburn Legal to review and negotiate cloud service contracts, you will be able to draw on our experience in identifying and managing the key risks specific to such services.
FMCG AND BRAND PROTECTION
Anna Thorburn Legal understands the importance of protecting and managing brands and intellectual property. Our Principal has broad experience in advising on the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights through her experience as Legal Counsel at Kraft Foods and as a Senior Associate at Allens Arthur Robinson (now Allens Linklaters). We also have broad experience in advising FMCG companies on advertising claims and claims made on packaging, particularly from the perspective of the Australian Consumer Law.
ADVICE ON CONTRACTUAL DISPUTES
If you are wrangling with a looming contractual dispute with a supplier or a customer, we can assist. Anna Thorburn Legal draws on its Principal's litigation and dispute resolution experience to assist its clients to try and resolve disputes before they escalate.
Areas of expertise
Anna Thorburn Legal has broad legal experience in key areas relevant to businesses, including:
General in-house commercial - providing pragmatic legal support to businesses and management teams in relation to business-as-usual activities and special projects
Contract negotiation
Technology and SaaS (cloud)
Advising Australian companies on data protection/privacy (Privacy Act (incl Mandatory Data Breach regime), General Data Protection Regulation (EU) and Personal Data Protection Act (Sing))
Advising at Executive and Board level
Intellectual property
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and brand protection
Mergers & acquisitions
Procurement and tender evaluation
Dispute resolution
Crisis management