Many of your contracts will be of strategic importance and central to the future success of your business.
It is important to get them right. With years of experience working on the most business critical strategic contracts, we can help you make the right commercial decisions.
Our experienced strategic contracts lawyers around the globe are focused on helping you navigate tough negotiations in order to get the right agreements in place for your business. In today’s world, many strategic contracts span multiple jurisdictions. We have an integrated global team, with strong along industry knowledge and experience of acting for customers and suppliers across a wide range of sectors. That means we can provide you with detailed local knowledge, as well as seeing the bigger picture and helping you find the best strategy.
Working with us means you get the benefit of lawyers from related teams such, such as Data, IP, Employment, Tax, Anti-Trust and Real Estate, all with deep experience of working on strategic contract mandates. Our legal project management team can also provide dedicated project management of your biggest, most complex, contracts.
We know these contracts are some of the biggest deals you will make and we’re here to support you from beginning to end.
The strategic contracting team offers substantial experience in negotiating, drafting and advising on sourcing agreements, strategic relationships, licensing agreements and other critical agreements and relationships that enable businesses and public bodies to accomplish their commercial objectives.
Our recent experience includes advising:
- a global pharmaceutical business on their strategic template project. Freeing up 25-30% of legal team time, improving contract review response times supporting faster vendor engagement and overall business efficiency
- a global technology and telecommunications client on a major global business process outsourcing across a number of critical global functions (finance and accounting, sales, procurement, human resources and talent) and more than 50 jurisdictions
- a company drafting their global technology-focused templates, with particular focus on the US and UK law and markets, including their IT procurement, cloud computing, agile, artificial intelligence contracts and their cyber security precedent
- a global technology and e-tailer in relation to updating and streamlining their contract templates and drafting accompanying playbooks across 24 countries, including local language translations
- a global agro-chemicals business on a number of strategic long term, high value supply agreements in Italy, Canada, the USA, the Netherlands, Mexico and Brazil as part of a global disposal
- a world-leading asset manager of investment funds on the exit and settlement of a multi-million pound outsourcing for the delegation of investment operations, derivatives valuations and derivatives collateral management
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