Cameron Abbott is a co-practice group coordinator for the global Commercial Technology and Sourcing group and is also the privacy officer for the firm's Australian offices. He also leads and regularly writes posts for the K&L Gates blog on Cyber Law Watch.
Cameron is a corporate lawyer who focuses on technology, cybersecurity, and privacy matters. He assists corporations and vendors in managing their technology requirements and contracts, particularly large outsourcing and technology procurement issues including licensing terms for SAP and Oracle and major system integration transactions.
Cameron partners with his clients to ensure market-leading solutions are implemented into their businesses. He concentrates on managing and negotiating complex technology solutions, which regularly span multiple jurisdictions as well as advising on electronic data retention and data privacy issues. In telecommunications he has helped clients navigate the pitfalls of rolling out ISP networks, Australia's first wholesale fiber-to-the-home telecommunications networks, and several embedded networks.
He partners with his clients, many of whom are utilities and heavy asset industries, to ensure market-leading solutions are implemented with the best risk mitigation possible while retaining value-for-money commercials. With a deep focus on key platform implementations, Cameron brings a detailed understanding of the approach and likely positions of all the major vendors in the market on key risk issues. Cameron acts for a range of large listed corporations, government corporations, and departments as well as multi-national system integrators and software vendors. He has many years of experience working on transactions to and from Asia, especially India.
