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Outsourcing & projects
Outsourcing has for some time been recognised as an effective method for a business to achieve or maintain its competitive edge. This could be as part of a drive to reduce your costs, focus on revenue generating activities and/or gaining access to better or more efficient technology or resources.
It is understandable that you should focus more and more on core activities in order to increase revenues and turn to the expert outsourced service providers to provide non-core services and processes to help you achieve your wider business objectives.
Why outsource?
Outsourcing offers many demonstrable benefits including:
- cost saving
- enables a third party with more experience to deal with a particular field
- allows you to focus on your core area of expertise rather than non-core distracting activities
- provides you with the time to focus on other business opportunities
- enables you to take advantage of the latest technologies and processes at a fraction of the cost of implementing them yourself
- transfers the risk of non-core activities to a party better equipped to manage that risk
Our expertise
Our outsourcing experts are ranked among the “Best of the UK” in Chambers & Partners 2008 edition. With over 15 specialist lawyers, many of whom have worked in-house for global service providers or procuring customers, we have a great deal of expert commercial knowledge across a range of sectors including health, defence, education, facilities management, automotive and retail to name a few.
Our services include:
- initial advice and scoping of key benefits and risks including assessment of potential providers
- advising on procurement, legal and regulatory matters in both the UK and foreign jurisdictions
- drafting and negotiating outsourcing and offshoring agreements
- advising on the employment and tax issues including TUPE
- carrying out sensitivity analyses of deduction mechanisms to advise on the appropriateness of deduction levels
- ongoing post contractual advice
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David Jackson
Partner
T: 08700 86 4184
I: +44 (0)121 335 4184
E: david.jackson@shoosmiths.co.uk