UK | Outsourcing

Delivering the best solutions, proportionally

SJ Berwin’s outsourcing specialists work within client teams to deliver the very best solutions for every project. We focus on getting the job done, proportionally.

We adjust our services to reflect the constant evolution of the global outsourcing industry, where every business process is at a different stage of the evolutionary lifecycle. Whilst complex, large-scale and transformational projects may require us to design innovative solutions, the models for simple, single process projects are well-established and easy to replicate, time and again. Our role should always be to add value in managing risk, so we believe that a wheel that has already been invented should be utilised.

Our clients are suppliers and customers across diverse industries, but whatever their needs, our Outsourcing team has the experience and expertise to deliver. Our full service Outsourcing team comprises experts in programme management, procurement, due diligence, transaction modelling, corporate structuring, employment and pensions issues, tax, real estate and financing, and unlike many firms, our outsourcing lawyers are fully dedicated to the practice of outsourcing. It is not something we do. It is everything we do, and our credentials are second to none.

IT Outsourcing

• restructuring the World’s largest outsourcing deal;
• advising the prime contractor on Europe’s largest single
  contract award;
• acting for several leading suppliers on the World’s largest civilian public sector outsourcing project;
• acting for a UK mobile network operator outsourcing its desktop services and transaction infrastructure;
• advising a UK banking industry body on the outsourcing of its 24/7 faster internet and telephone payments services;
• advising a global bank outsourcing its UK IT requirements;
• acting for a leading spirits group outsourcing its IT requirements;
• advising a major Portuguese utility company outsourcing its IT requirements;
• acting for a leading European private equity firm outsourcing its global IT and telecoms requirements; and
• advising a major IT hardware manufacturer on various
  global projects.

• acting for several customers on the outsourcing of various back- and middle-office activities to leading banks;
• acting for several leading banks providing various back- and middle-office services;
• advising a pension fund outsourcing its funds administration;
• acting for a leading global investment manager outsourcing
  its payroll;
• advising a leading global beverage company outsourcing its accounting and payroll;
• acting for a major Australian airline outsourcing its ticketing
  and reservations; and
• advising a leading product and logistics group supplying catering, media and logistics to several airlines.

Dispute Resolution 

Our outsourcing litigators have acted on a number of high profile UK cases and settlements.