Luke Topfer

Background

About Luke Topfer

Luke is a specialist IP/TMT lawyer with experience in the areas of technology, communications, privacy, and data security. As a creative, analytical, personable, and outcome-oriented lawyer, Luke has developed a reputation for quickly delivering clear advice on complex matters. This reputation is exemplified by his nominations as a finalist in the Lawyers Weekly 30 under 30 Awards in the TMT category (2018) and the Corporate Counsel (Large Business) category (2020).With a commercial approach to negotiations, Luke works to deliver outstanding outcomes across a range of technology product and service-offerings, including cloud services (including PaaS, IaaS, and, in particular, SaaS), on-premises software, hardware, and professional services/consulting services. Luke’s deals frequently involve major national and international corporations, including major banks and financial services corporations, insurers, construction corporations, major consulting and accounting firms, tertiary education institutes, and similar entities. Luke also regularly engages and negotiates with federal, state and local government departments.In addition to Luke’s work undertaking commercial negotiations, he also delivers high-quality legal advice in relation to a range of topics, including privacy and data security (including in relation to the Privacy Act/APPs and GDPR), marketing documents, product representations, competition and consumer practices, policy development and implementation, dispute resolution, and contract and statutory interpretation. Luke holds a Bachelor of Psychology (Hons) from the University of Newcastle, and a Juris Doctor from the University of New South Wales.