Outsourcing

Our full-service outsourcing practice and offering cover a range of areas, including employment, privacy and information management, tax, intellectual property, trade and commerce and regulatory issues. Our extensive experience in outsourcing arrangements brings to our clients a unique perspective that comes from having represented both users and providers of outsourced services across a wide range of industries. We take a commercial 'fair for all' approach by treating the process of negotiating the agreement as the starting point to build towards a mutually beneficial, lasting relationship. We operate as a single global team offering integrated and cost-effective advice at each stage of a project's cycle. 

Baker McKenzie has extensive experience in complex, transformational outsourcing transactions, with a special emphasis on complex ITO and communications, shared services, application development and maintenance, highly bespoke BPO including finance and accounting, manufacturing, operations, engineering, HR, network outsourcing and facilities and data management outsourcings. We advise clients on structure, RFP preparation and down selection, negotiating, contracting, implementation, governance and renegotiation. Having closed tens of billions of dollars in contracts to outsource critical business functions, our lawyers possess a deep and sophisticated understanding of the unique features of outsourcing agreements.