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

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 outsourcing relationship, 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

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. 0808-2018

    Bird & Bird's Simon Shooter and Mark Leach act as contributing editors to this year's International Comparative Legal Guide to Outsourcing

    The guide covers common issues in outsourcing laws and regulations, including regulatory frameworks, procurement processes, transfers of assets, employment law, data protection and customer remedies in 21 jurisdictions.

  2. 0907-2018

    EBA consults on Guidelines on outsourcing

    On 22 June 2018, the European Banking Authority (EBA) launched a public consultation on its draft Guidelines on outsourcing.

  3. 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 ...

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