Clayton Utz has appointed John Dieckmann as a special counsel in Melbourne, enhancing its service offering to clients in the areas of IP, technology and telecommunications law.
Dieckmann joins Clayton Utz from the TMT group of Allens Arthur Robinson, where for he worked for more than 10 years. He advised private and public sector clients on large-scale technology procurement projects and managed the service agreements, internet and ecommerce law, data security and privacy issues, technology commercialisation, and the technology aspects of significant M&A transactions.
More recently he has advised NBN Co Ltd on its A$1.1 billion wireless procurement project, which involved agreements with Ericsson Australia for the design, deployment, operation and maintenance of an advanced long term evolution (LTE) wireless network. Dieckmann also spent two years as a managing associate in the TMT practice at magic circle firm Linklaters, where he advised a major UK listed company on its £2 billion outsourcing of IT infrastructure and transformation projects, one of the largest private sector outsourcings to have been undertaken in the UK at the time. In addition to his legal qualifications, he holds a Bachelor's degree in IT and worked in IT roles before beginning his legal career.
Clayton Utz Melbourne has recruited dual Australian and New York qualified capital markets lawyer Elissa Tobin as a senior associate in its national capital markets practice. Tobin joins from U.S. firm Sidley Austin in Sydney, where she was an associate for two years. At Sidley Austin, Tobin acted as U.S. counsel to a number of large Australian and Australian Stock Exchange listed companies on both debt and equity capital markets transactions including Rule 144A bond offerings, IPOs, placements and entitlement offerings. Prior to Sidley Austin she was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York.
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