About Sean:
Sean is a Weightmans partner in our commercials team and leads our Digital, Technical and Data team. He specialises in a wide range of strategic and complex data, IT, media, entertainment, commercial and intellectual property issues.
Get expert advice on outsourcing business functions
Outsourcing can be a high stakes exercise. It can transform and drive a business forward if successful but if unsuccessful can have serious operational and financial impacts.
Our experienced outsourcing lawyers understand this dynamic.
We help our clients across the outsourcing lifecycle from procurement, supplier selection, contract drafting, negotiations, contract management and termination/exit support.
We adopt a pragmatic and commercial approach. Outsourcing arrangements are typically long-term arrangements and need to commercially incentivise good performance whilst having robust levers to challenge and resolve unsatisfactory performance. We have the expertise to advise and guide you through this process.Â
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How our outsourcing lawyers can help you
Outsourcing is a well-developed business process. We typically advise on the following types of outsourcing arrangements:
- Technology outsourcing
- Business process outsourcing
- Warehousing and logistics
- Facilities management
- Insurance claims handling
- Call centres
- Catering
We have experience in acting both on the client and supplier side of outsourcing arrangements.
We serve clients across the UK and internationally from our offices in Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle and Nottingham
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Outsourcing expertise
- Negotiating a £35m technology outsourcing contract.
- Advising on a major tender for the outsourcing of road maintenance services.
- Acting for a technology company in relation to the outsourcing of a transport-related information facility.
- Advising the supplier on the outsourcing of part of the technology activity of a major industrial materials producer.
- Acting for the supplier in relation to the outsourcing of the legacy systems of a national energy supplier.
- Acting for the supplier in relation to the outsourcing of the technology activities of a local authority.
- Acting for the supplier in relation to the outsourcing of the technology function of a publicly listed media, hotel and catering group.
