Kate Armstrong

Kate is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Technology & Data team. She advises on a broad range of contracts and commercial issues, with a focus on technology, including software licensing and development (e.g. SaaS and agile), commercialisation of IP, outsourcing, and online terms. Kate works with technology companies of all sizes, from start-ups to global brands, including those in the healthtech, fintech and adtech sectors. She has gained significant commercial and industry experience during her secondments with AWS, a fast growth international fintech and a global media/telecoms company. Kate is a member of the Super Innovation Ambassador Program and has a particular interest in Legal Design.

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Career

Since 2021	Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2018 - 2021	Associate, Taylor Wessing
2019	Secondment, Thought Machine

2015 – 2018

Solicitor, Bell Gully, New Zealand

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Education

2015	Admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor, High Court of New Zealand
2015	LLB, University of Otago, New Zealand
2015	BCom, Major in Marketing and Minor in French Language, University of Otago, New Zealand

Memberships & Associations

French Chamber of Great Britain

Additional languages

English

Expertise

Sectors Technology, media & communications Consumer & retail Fintech Cryptoassets, blockchain and distributed ledger technology

Experience

A public health organisation	A public health organisation on the legal aspects of the development and implementation of IT solutions to support the delivery of health services to the health sector.
An early stage fintech company	An early stage fintech company on the development and subsequent negotiations of a suite of commercial contracts for a cloud-native product.
Department of Corrections	Department of Corrections on the national procurement for facilities and asset maintenance services for properties throughout New Zealand (a combined estate valued at over NZD3 billion).

A major network infrastructure provider

A major network infrastructure provider on the implementation and support services for its enterprise asset management and enterprise resource planning systems project.

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