Jane Parker

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Jane is a specialist in commercial projects and commercial law with a particular focus on technology, services agreements, public sector contracting, procurement, probity and governance, and health and safety through the supply chain.

She has more than 25 years of experience working in and for technology, energy, and financial services organisations, on the supplier and customer sides. She understands how relationships, operations, and commercials work together. Her constructive, practical approach helps protect her clients’ interests and speeds up the process of agreeing.

As one client says, she is “keen to understand the full nature of the transaction at the start, which then helps avoid commercial misunderstandings between the parties later down the track. Jane is also able to see the transaction from both sides, and aims to create solutions that work for both parties (and ultimately the project as a whole).” – The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022.

Jane’s specialist technology expertise covers the technology spectrum, including system replacements and upgrades, new technologies, licensing, networks, infrastructure, cloud services, privacy, data and information management, outsourcing, artificial intelligence, and related services.

Consistently ranked for her TMT expertise in top legal directories, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific and Chambers Asia-Pacific, Jane is adept at making the complex simple. She enjoys helping clients to better optimise their business outcomes and has been described by one client as “extremely client-focused and very approachable" - Chambers Asia-Pacific 2022. She has also been praised for her “excellent application of legal considerations in a commercial setting” - Chambers Asia-Pacific 2021.

Jane is a highly rated facilitator and regular speaker at technology and public sector contracting forums.

Before joining MinterEllisonRuddWatts, Jane worked for another top tier New Zealand law firm and had in-house legal and commercial roles in New Zealand and London.

Career highlights

Trusted legal adviser of Project NEXT (which represents Waka Kotahi - the New Zealand Transport Agency and 13 councils) to procure a transformational national ticketing solution, which will enable and process payments for journeys on public transport in New Zealand.

Advising NZX on contracts for NZX’s provision of New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme Managed Auction Service. Our role included advising on the Master Services Agreement between NZX and the Ministry for the Environment and on the terms and conditions applicable to auction participants.

Advising Tokyo-listed global insurer, Dai-ichi Life on the technology and transition aspects of its NZD1 billion acquisition of Partners Life.

Advising the Banking Ombudsman on its standard form of agreement that was used with banking members to receive and process data for the Banking Ombudsman’s complaints dashboard.

Advising Tokelau and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade on the cyber communications rules that would govern Tokelau once it has access to faster internet via the new sub-sea cable. The rules would also help compliance with the Budapest Convention.

Affiliations
  • Member, The Institute of Directors in New Zealand
Achievements and recognition
  • Recognised, Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) , Chambers Asia-Pacific
  • Band 1 team, Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT), Chambers Asia-Pacific
  • Band 1 team, Corporate/Commercial, Chambers Asia-Pacific
  • Leading Individual, Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT), The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific
  • Tier 1 team, Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT), The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific