Michael Grosser | Partner | Brisbane

Michael is a Partner in the Corporate and Commercial group. Michael specialises in projects and infrastructure, information technology and government procurement.

Before becoming a lawyer, Michael had seventeen years experience in the technology industry, as founder and CEO of an Australian company operating in the Government and corporate sectors in Australia and overseas.

Michael has advised Commonwealth and State Government Ministers in small business, export and technology matters, and represented Australia at APEC summits and United Nations forums.

Recent experience

• Acting for Queensland Motorways on a major motorway upgrade project as well as an intelligent transport system and reconfiguration of interchanges for an adjoining motorway.
• Acting for SunWater on the construction of the Connors River Dam and Pipelines project in north Queensland, including drafting and negotiating Early Contractor Involvement contracts, preparing procurement documents and advising on the contracting framework.
• Acting for Seqwater on a water treatment plant project.
• Acting for SPARQ Solutions, the information and communications technology services to Queensland’s electricity suppliers on over 20 separate projects including drafting and negotiating contracts, procurement documentation and acting as probity advisor for major technology implementations with international and Australian vendors, including distribution management system, data centre, managed service desk, business intelligence, back-up archive and recovery, and business information blueprinting projects.
• Acting for a major Australian passenger airline service and its related rewards program on provision of loyalty management services, relaunch of the rewards program, refurbishment of check-in facilities, various flight recording, communications systems, simulators, databases and services contracts.
• Acting for Queensland Rail in the preparation of a Government Information Technology contracting framework for an infrastructure capability project.
• Significant experience acting for Queensland Government agencies and Queensland Government Owned Corporations and agencies.

Qualifications
Bachelor of Laws (First class honours) (Queensland University of Technology)
Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (College of Law)
Bachelor of Science (University of Adelaide)
Master of Business Administration (Australian Graduate School of Management, University of NSW and Adelaide)
Diploma in Education (Adelaide)

Memberships
Queensland Law Society
Australian Interactive Multimedia
Industry Association (Queensland)
Judge of the annual AIMIA awards
Australian Information Industry Association
Infrastructure Association of Queensland