Alan Nelson

Practice Areas

Alan Nelson is the Managing Partner of CMS Glasgow and a very experienced IT and information lawyer.

He has advised a large number of public and private sector bodies on a variety of IT, outsourcing deals and significant commercial contracts. He has a particular expertise in the financial services sector.

Over the last 25+ years he has led teams advising clients on some of their most complex high value IT and outsourcing projects.

Work Highlights

Over the past 10+ years advising the Scottish public sector on procuring the SWAN network, the first significant shared services IT project undertaken in Scotland from Capita and then the re-procurement of those services which was won by BT. Cumulatively the contracts have a value well in excess of GBP 500m.

A leading UK bank on its GBP 700m datacentre/infrastructure outsourcing to IBM.

A leading UK bank on multiple contracts to support the distribution of insurance products to its customers.

Multiple clients on enterprise wide software and SaaS arrangements.

Scottish Water: principal advisor on the negotiation and implementation of its co-sourcing strategy for its IT function with three suppliers simultaneously (BT, Fujitsu and TCS).

The contractual arrangements to support the operation of the largest ATM estate in the UK.

The outsourcing of a number of financial services operations including mortgage processing, credit card processing, complaints handling and PPI remediation.

A number of clients on large outsourcing projects including with Cognizant, Syntel, Accenture, Infosys, Genpact, BT, Cushman & Wakefield, Mitie and many others.

Education