Technology & Outsourcing
McGuireWoods lawyers concentrate on business matters driven by technology and service delivery optimization, and skillfully handle issues that come with large-scale outsourcing arrangements, including business process outsourcing (BPO), as well as other licensing and technology procurements. Business, government and nonprofit organizations with a global footprint rely on the legal services offered by the firm’s outsourcing team. Accordingly, McGuireWoods is recognized by benchmarking legal publications, including Chambers USA and The Legal 500 U.S., for our work on technology transactions.
McGuireWoods advises clients on outsourcing of numerous business processes, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, corporate accounting, human resources, supply chain services, help desk, information technology services and general finance services, as well as enterprise resource planning (ERP), compute and storage, data center operations and hosting, end user computing, database services, and network and telecommunications. In addition to supporting the procurement, development and deployment of business process outsourcing for clients, the team assists in corporate transactions, compliance audits, and dispute prevention and resolution.
Drawing on our knowledge of best practices, as well as an intimate familiarity with market positions and business objectives, we assist clients with legal services in the outsourcing space; negotiating and structuring technology transactions; and dispute prevention and resolution.
The team has negotiated numerous IT and business-process outsourcings for private and government sector clients, including contracts exceeding $1 billion in value. Clients return to us for ongoing counsel throughout the outsourcing’s life cycle, including contract interpretation, re-negotiation and renewal strategies, and for remediation of underperforming transactions. Our lawyers also provide strategic counsel on how to prevent and avoid costly outsourcing disputes in virtually every industry sector. And if remediation fails, we litigate and arbitrate contract, outsourcing, and vendor issues in state and federal courts throughout the United States.
McGuireWoods professionals hold influential positions within technology-related organizations, committees, and editorial boards; educate, make presentations, and publish on topics at the intersection of law, technology and business. We understand the unique business and legal challenges companies face as information systems, personnel and service delivery process needs continue to evolve and become more complex.
Nationally ranked for media, technology and telecom – outsourcing.
– THE LEGAL 500 U.S.