Alex Horder
Clayton Utz
Alex has over twelve years' experience advising public and private clients in Australia and overseas on the design and execution of a range of high-value, strategic technology and general commercial transactions, including software, platform, infrastructure and business process outsourcing and digital transformation, systems integration, IT separation, technology licensing, procurement and commercialisation.
Alex also regularly advises clients on legal and regulatory issues across the digital economy, helping clients understand the dynamic and complex environment in which they operate, and the need to balance compliance with the drive to innovate. In addition to his work on cyber risk, data sharing and privacy matters, Alex is a valued advisor to clients and their boards in relation to the adoption of Artificial Intelligence, providing guidance on the application of laws, conducting risk review of AI use cases, and designing and advising on governance frameworks to ensure clients' responsible use of AI.
Alex is well known by his clients for providing practical, commercially-astute advice in relation to complex and sometimes novel legal, commercial and operational issues, and for his ability to craft highly-bespoke contracts to address them. He has led strategic negotiations against most major global technology vendors and consulting firms, and is an experienced advisor to APRA-regulated and financial services clients, having been retained previously for two strategic secondments at two of Australia's 'Big 4' Banks.
Australian Banks: Alex is regular advisor to a range of Australian Banks, including the Big 4 Banks, in relation to various business-critical technology, telecommunications and procurement-related matters, including in respect of their strategic arrangements with key technology and telecommunications providers including Telstra, SAP, Google, DXC, NTT, Oracle, Microsoft, Mastercard, TPG, Optus and IBM.
Australian Consumer Complaints Body: Alex regularly advises in relation to key strategic technology and procurement matters, including the digital transformation of its core business systems, the implementation of its technology arrangements underpinning one of its core government-mandated functions, its arrangements with its key enterprise technology vendors such as Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic, and the design of its AI governance frameworks in relation to its core operations.
NSW Government Entity: Advised in relation to the integration and delivery arrangements for the upgrade of the Opal Card infrastructure for buses in New South Wales.
Australian Insurer: Advised in relation to the parallel renegotiation of its arrangements with each member of its telecommunications services panel.
International Insurer: Advised in relation to a multi-vendor outsourcing of its production and disaster recovery data centre capabilities throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
Australian electricity distributor: Advised in relation to the procurement of a hybrid Software-as-a-Service/on-premise ERP and EAM solution from SAP, as well as the related multi-vendor, staged, implementation project.
Global Pharmaceutical Company: Advised in relation to the design of its global internal AI policy suite.
Global Data Security Company: Advised in relation to the privacy issues relevant to the establishment of an offshore delivery centre in the Philippines.
Global AI Company: Advised in relation to the Australian privacy regime in the context of the establishment of its business presence in Australia.
Global IT Services Provider: Advised in relation to the technology-related aspects (including due diligence, separation and transition) of its joint venture with a key Australian telecommunications provider, directed toward the expansion of the provider's existing technology services business.