About

With over 15 years’ professional experience specialising in commercial, consumer, competition, IT, IP, privacy, and franchising law, Jaime Frasca is a senior legal counsel at Dell Technologies, covering Australia and New Zealand. Dell Technologies is a unique family of businesses that provides the essential infrastructure for organisations to build their digital future, transform IT, and protect their most important asset-information. The company services customers of all sizes across 180 countries – ranging from 98% of the Fortune 500 list of companies to individual consumers – with the industry’s most comprehensive and innovative portfolio from the edge to the core to the cloud. Frasca started working at Dell Technologies in 2017; prior to that, she worked as legal counsel for KFC South Pacific (Yum! Brands subsidiary) for more than five years, where she acted as the primary legal contact for the negotiation and preparation of multi-million dollar contracts (including supply chain, IT services, and sponsorship arrangements), privacy and data breach compliance issues, serious customer complaints and brand risk management and franchisee non-compliance issues. Previously, she acquired extensive experience working in telecommunications and media industries in Sydney and the UK, acting as legal counsel for XYZnetworks (now owned by Foxtel), Kordia Solutions, Penguin Group UK, and Hutchinson 3G UK. Prior to her in-house career, Frasca’s private practice experience consists of working as a commercial, intellectual property, and technology solicitor at Maddocks and commercial litigation solicitor at Corrs Chambers Westgarth. Frasca views her time in London as her proudest achievement of her in-house career so far, saying: ‘I was overjoyed to have landed my first permanent in-house legal role at Penguin Group UK working in Covent Garden with an amazing team of people on some really interesting matters’. She believes a strong leadership team that believes in placing its people, diversity and workplace culture at the forefront of the business will have the greatest impact on her career, and ‘support from senior colleagues who invest time in creating and providing professional development opportunities is essential to helping generate legal industry leaders. It is also important for colleagues and peers to have a forum or mechanism within the company to be able to recognise others for achievements and successes when they arise’, she comments. Talking about the skills that general counsels of the future will need in order to successfully advise businesses, Frasca states: ‘General counsels of the future will need to stay nimble and adopt appropriate technological tools to maximise in-house work efficiencies. I think it is also important for them to maintain a commercially balanced legal view when providing practical advice to business stakeholders, and to foster strong support networks and collaboration within in-house legal teams’.