Kate Armstrong

Kate is an associate in the Commercial Technology and Data group. She advises on contracts and commercial issues in the technology and software industries.

She regularly works with early stage, high-growth and multinational tech companies across a variety of sectors including healthtech, fintech and envirotech. Kate also advises on a wide range of contracts, including those which cover software as a service (SaaS), Cloud, outsourcing, software licensing/development, partnership/collaboration, websites and apps.

Kate completed an eight-month secondment as 2IC to the GC at a fast growth Fintech with international reach. Amongst other things, the secondment required having a deep understanding of the company's key drivers and complex business structures, working closely with the leaders of the business' technology/operations/creative functions, and hands-on experience with software development and agile methodologies.

Kate is admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.

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Career

Since 2018	Associate, Taylor Wessing
2019	Secondment, Thought Machine
2015 – 2018	Solicitor, Bell Gully, New Zealand

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

Services and Groups Information technology Commercial & consumer contracts

Experience

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 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.
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.