New trends and opportunities in the global outsourcing market evolve quickly in the digital world and era of disruptive technology we now live and work in. Our global outsourcing team is at the forefront of market developments.
Companies are seeking to align outsourcing strategies with their overall business objectives and balance their existing infrastructure with fast-developing alternatives. Choices around business critical transformation and procurement projects are driven by improving productivity, increasing flexibility and reducing costs.
In this fast-moving space, companies require commercial, innovative and cutting-edge legal advice that successfully transforms their businesses and guides them through challenging regulatory and procurement issues.
Our transactional team is full service and resourced with outsourcing and technology specialists, working alongside corporate, employment, tax, restructuring, regulatory and competition lawyers who focus their practices on outsourcing. And if required, we work closely with our outsourcing & technology specialists in dispute resolution to both manage risk and apply lessons learned in the design and negotiation of contracts and also to resolve disputes in the event of issues arising. Together we provide integrated advice on complex and high value business critical transformation and procurement projects, including information technology outsourcings, business process outsourcings and cloud-related procurements.
We also advise on sourcing strategies and alternative contractual and delivery structures, including services and systems integration and management, alliances, joint ventures and other collaboration models.
We regularly advise on:
- business transformation and sourcing strategies, implementation and governance arrangements- assessing the value and risk of different sourcing models and tech driven transformation of your organisation for future growth
- identifying and managing risks in the development, deployment, use, sale or procurement of technology (including use and deployment of AI and other emerging technology, automation, e-commerce, commercialisation of data, as well as cloud based infrastructure and applications)
- legal and regulatory frameworks relating to outsourcing, use of technology, cloud, including the impact of AI, data, cyber and other sector-specific regulations, including around operational resilience
- legal constructs that foster and support the creation, acquisition and use of outsourced technology, processes and systems, including technology licensing and associated technology exploitation arrangements and agreements
- technology collaboration, services and systems integration projects, including the design and negotiation of multi-supplier sourcing ecosystems and associated contractual arrangements
- early identification and management of potential outsourcing and technology related disputes
We also support organisations created as or transforming into a digital or tech enabled businesses to capitalise on opportunities created by technology including data, digitisation of assets, data analytics and exploitation of data as a strategic corporate asset, artificial intelligence, robotics, internet of things, blockchain, smart infrastructure, transport and cities, and augmented and virtual reality.
We also offer fully-integrated advice on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, investments, tax, employment, regulation, competition, telecommunications, data protection and privacy, cyber security and operational resilience to support all of our clients' sourcing related needs.
