Intellectual Property and Technology

Robyn is an intellectual property and information technology partner whose practice covers franchising and distribution, commercial contracts and concession agreements, information technology and communications law, e-commerce law, data protection/privacy and all forms of new technology and IP such as artificial intelligence, payment platforms and crypto currencies, augmented reality and virtual reality. Robyn has advised many companies behind the world's leading brands.

Robyn has particular expertise in the hotel, leisure, retail, education and healthcare sectors. She is recognised as a leading expert in retail, education, hotel and leisure franchising. She is a member of the firm's franchise group, hotel sector group and the firm’s retail group. Robyn’s clients include multi-national corporations, financial institutions, start-ups such as games developers and public authorities. Robyn works with them on matters such as franchise agreements and master developer agreements (and their related contracts and disclosure documents), strategic outsourcing agreements, major commercial contracts and software licensing, outsourcing and development agreements.

Robyn also has a specialty in international licensing, particularly in retail, hospitality and healthcare sectors, and advises on data protection law impacts in respect of international transfers and customer relationship management, and IP driven joint venture agreements. Her practice has included both contentious and non-contentious matters.

Robyn was Counsel at Dentons in the UK and previously held Senior Associate positions in IP/IT in the UK at Nabarro LLP and at Slaughter and May and in Australia at Allens. She has also had a year's experience at the Supreme Court of Victoria (Court of Appeal) in 2008 as an associate to the Hon. Dodds-Streeton JA. Before her career as a lawyer commenced in 2004, Robyn was a senior executive with ExxonMobil Australia and a franchise manager and finance graduate at Shell Company of Australia.

Member, International Association of Privacy Professionals Member, Anglo-Australasian Lawyers Society UK

University of Melbourne, 2003, Juris Doctor

University of Queensland, 1998, Bachelor of Economics

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 1996, MBA