JENNI LIGHTOWLERS, Partner

Jenni has been a partner in FAL since 1993 and is admitted to practice in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.

Her particular area of expertise is the establishment and operation of cooperative research centres, although she also has broad corporate experience.

Examples of work:

• Spinning off commercialisation vehicles from existing research focused clients
• Advising on the establishment of Cooperative Research Centres, drafting documentation and advising on structures and tax issues
• Drafting collaborative agreements, licence agreements, IP assignments and other documentation required to support client innovation
• University governance, legislative requirements, research grant funding opportunities
• Providing advice and preparing model documentation for the conduct of research with major mining industry corporations
• Drafting suites of model agreements for use by clients engaged in research in Australia, UK and USA
• Drafting intellectual property statutes for various universities and chairing the legislation committee of a university
• Providing advice and preparing agreements on space law, including drafting documents for the launch of a satellite comprising documentation of the research consortium and advising on its financial structure
• Drafting regulations and legislation, including creating documentation for remote sensing unincorporated joint venture, which was attached to an Act of the Western Australian Parliament
• Defence Export Controls