Grace Williams

Grace’s primary role is an “external, in-house lawyer” for her regular clients, which include major agribusiness and e-commerce retailers. She approaches the delivery of legal services holistically, taking into consideration a business’ commercial and strategic requirements as well as legal needs. She places high value on helping her clients understand complex issues, to give them greater confidence in dealing with the legal pitfalls within their industries.

Grace qualified as a lawyer in 2016 before working at a large Tasmanian commercial law firm, and then becoming a founding member of ConMoto Group in 2019. Having a specialised interest in contract automation and legal process improvement, Grace’s advice focuses on streamlining high volume contracting processes to enable acquisitions and sales teams to perform their roles dynamically with reduced risk.

Grace’s experience includes:

• Compliance and contracting for the full food production lifecycle, including regulatory compliance for land and water access; biosecurity; vaccine development and distribution; equipment development and acquisition; farming; transport and storage logistics, waste management; retail and wholesale supply; IP protection, marketing and trade promotions.
• Running client training seminars on Australian Consumer Law compliance encompassing consumer guarantees, unfair contract terms and misleading and deceptive conduct.
• Advice and client training on cartel and other anti-competitive conduct.
• Advising on multi-national trade transactions.
• Trademark, copyright and design application and dispute advice.
• Drafting automated contract suites that manage the relationship between e-commerce retailers and their resellers, while prioritising consumer guarantee and unfair contract term legislation compliance.
• Undertaking complex contract reviews and negotiations.
• Review, negotiation, implementation and maintenance of technical software-as-a-service agreements across transport, food production and e-commerce sectors.
• Advising on multi-jurisdiction consumer law and privacy compliance.