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Outsourcing Legal Services
The sourcing market is varied and thriving, offering excellent opportunities for strategic cost reduction, risk management and sharing, and specialised service adoption.
The lasting nature of the business relationship allows buy-side corporates to focus on their core business while receiving specialist support and advice from their chosen provider.
With new solutions launching every day, tech is often at the forefront of many sourcing relationships, which has provided our clients in the tech sector a variety of opportunities to provide innovative solutions that embrace new ways of contracting and exceed their customers’ expectations. We work closely with our supplier clients to understand their solutions and capabilities to help them partner with their customers. We understand the converging tech markets and work across a full sector range, offering buy-side businesses a competitive edge in converging and competitive markets.
Our outsourcing legal expertise
Our sourcing team helps clients to efficiently structure their sourcing portfolio, and offers advice across the entire sourcing lifecycle, working closely alongside you from tender to contract signing and beyond.
We offer a comprehensive service to meet all of your outsourcing-related needs, whether pertaining to employment, intellectual property, or technology and data protection, drawing on our full-service capabilities to offer advice across the multiple legal disciplines that support an outsourcing agreement.
The strength in our team lies in our ability to act for both customers and suppliers, giving us insight into the requirements of both sides of the commercial relationship and a firm understanding of customer demands and suppliers’ technical issues and best practice. Our strength is further galvanised by each team member’s experience working in-house, whether with clients who are the buyers of services, or innovative technology providers leading the digital revolution.
Our experience includes outsourcing in the following sectors:
- Facilities management
- Information technology
- Public procurement
- Telecommunications
- HR
- Finance and financial services
Meet our outsourcing lawyers
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Data Protection & Privacy
We can provide you with international contentious and non-contentious advice that exceeds straight-forward legal services.

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We will work with you to ensure that your company is fully compliant and avoids sanction.

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The agreements that you have in place with your suppliers and agents are critical. We can adapt your agreements tailored to your requirements and objectives.

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