Trade Secrets &
Data Protection
We advise on trade secret and data protection compliance.
It is important to protect and manage the use and disclosure personal information and confidential information to ensure that it cannot be accessed by your competitors. Loss of valuable confidential information to a competitor, or to the world at large, can have serious consequences for your business. We provide advice regarding confidentiality rights and obligations, fiduciary obligations and employee restraints, drafting non-disclosure agreements and other forms of contractual protection and, where necessary, representing clients in interlocutory and other proceedings.
Compliance with local and international privacy and data protection advice is an unavoidable feature of modern commercial practices. Our services include drafting privacy policies, collection statements and the full range of contractual privacy clauses, conducting privacy impact assessments and privacy audits, and advising in relation to privacy strategy, mandatory data breach reporting and international data transfers.
Our Trade Secret Services
Our team can assist with:
Non-disclosure agreements
Advising on and preparing non-disclosure agreements.
Commercialisation and licensing
Preparation of agreements for exploitation of trade secrets.
Strategic advice
Strategic advice on protection of confidential information.
Enforcement and litigation
Remedial action to redress breaches of confidence.
Employment issues
Advice on employee restraints and protection of goodwill.
Our Privacy & Data Protection Services
Our team can assist with:
Australian Privacy Principles
Advising clients on what is required to ensure compliance with the APPs.
Privacy policies
Advising on whether a privacy policy is required, and how it should be structured.
Data collection statements
Drafting data collection statements to ensure compliance with APP 5 which deals with data collection notification.
Direct marketing
Advising clients on how to ensure their marketing strategy complies with privacy, spam and telemarketing laws.
Cross-border data flows
Advising on applicable restrictions involving the cross-border export and import of personal information.
Health privacy
Advising on obligations relating to the handling of personal information under federal, State and Territory health privacy laws.
Credit reporting privacy
Advising on obligations relating to handling of credit reporting information in accordance with Part IIIA of the Privacy Act.
Privacy impact assessments and privacy audits
Conducting privacy impact assessments (PIAs) and privacy audits to ensure clients comply with applicable data protection laws.
Our Experts in Trade Secrets & Data Protection
- All
- Melbourne
- Malaysia
- Sydney
- Brisbane
Chris Jordan
Principal Lawyer
Dr Li Li
Siew Ling Lee
Trade Mark Attorney