Outsourcing

International expertise & a market leading team & on your side & delivering success & developing relationships & supporting you throughout the project & that's Outsourcing with Bird & Bird

A truly international firm & organised around our clients & passion and insight & connecting with our clients’ vision & commercial advantage & where service matters & that’s Bird & Bird

Overview

Our experience stretches back over 20 years and includes advising on some of the most complex and innovative outsourcing transactions undertaken anywhere in the world. Our team is international and fully integrated, making us uniquely placed to support global and pan-European transactions.

We advise clients throughout the lifecycle of an outsourcingrelationship, from the initial structuring of a deal through the procurement process to contract negotiation, transition and implementation. We have unparalleled expertise in advising on contract management issues and also regularly advise on re-tenderings and exit planning matters. 

Our clients in this area include major corporates across a variety of industry sectors, financial institutions and government departments, as well as a number of leading outsourcing vendors. 

Head of Group: Mark Leach in London.

European outsourcing association 2015 awards - Finalist

Accolades

  • Sources are “impressed by their depth of resources – they are very focused on our business needs and have a great sense of where the market is.”

    Chambers UK 2013

  • Bird & Bird impresses with “expert knowledge based on hands-on commercial experience”, and delivers a level of service ‘second to none’.

    Legal 500 2012

  • Sources praise this firm’s outsourcing team for its “consistent approach” and “strong culture of high-quality legal work”

    Chambers UK 2012

Recent highlights of work

  • Advising BT plc on a £640 million extension of its telecommunications outsourcing contract with the UK Ministry of Defence.
  • Advising Catlin Group (a global specialty insurance and reinsurance group) on a global wide area network outsourcing to Verizon covering the vast majority of Catlin's sites worldwide.
  • Advising a major insurer on a complex policy administration and IT outsourcing with a total contract value in excess of £500 million.
  • Advising Mecom plc on a cross border IT infrastructure outsourcing.
  • Advising Michelin Group on its global IT outsourcing (with a total contract value of over £700 million).
  • Advising T-Mobile on the joint venture formed between T-Mobile and 3 to create the world's largest known active 3G network sharing agreement deal, under which T-Mobile outsourced their communications networks to MBNL and took services back from MBNL.
  • Advising the UK Ministry of Justice on a series of large scale technology outsourcing procurements utilising a tower-based, multi-vendor sourcing model.

Contacts

Leach-Mark

Mark Leach

Partner
UK

Call me on: +44 (0)20 7415 6000
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News & Events

  1. 1910-2016

    The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Outsourcing 2016

    Bird & Bird provide both a general update on outsourcing law in the UK and Sweden and a practical insight into tips on the structuring of a multijurisdictional outsourcing deal in the 2016 edition of the ICLG Guide to Outsourcing

  2. 1009-2014

    Breaking News: Singapore tightening security controls on outsourcing

    On 5 September 2014, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) released two consultation papers containing a proposed updated set of Guidelines on Outsourcing, and a new Notice on Outsourcing that will define a set of minimum standards for managing outsourcing

  3. 2708-2014

    Lawyering Major Projects: Nine Techniques to Keep Black Swans at Bay

    This paper examines some recent important material about the nature of major projects and why they go wrong. In particular I hope to alert you to the dangers posed by ‘Black Swans,’ a term coined by the writer Nassim Nicholas Taleb in connection with the limitations of human knowledge derived from observation and experience.

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