Details
Analysis of the law and legal issues relating to outsourcing
Provides insight into how outsourcing agreements work in practice
Treatment of both information technology and business process outsourcing
Readable style with practical commentary and advice
Includes coverage of US, UK and European practices
Includes sample contract language and basic forms for service agreements and other documents unique to outsourcing
Outsourcing - entrusting major operations to outside contractors, at home or abroad - represents one of this century's important trends, made possible by broadband technology and operation of the law of comparative advantage in a word with fewer boundaries than ever before.
Outsourcing Agreements: A Practical Guide is an accessible guide to the legal and practical issues arising from complex outsourcing deals with a particular emphasis on the UK and the US. Lawyers, executives and managers must learn how all of the pieces of the outsourcing jigsaw - contractual, operational, technical and financial - fit together into a coherent, manageable whole that suppliers can perform and customers can manage. This book covers the discrete legal issues involved, and also the management of the relationship between vendor and purchaser of outsourcing services, in a practical and comprehensive way. The accessible anture of this book means it will be ofinterest to lawyers in private practice or in-house, in particular those who are new to outsourcing as an area of practice.
Readership: This book will be of interest to lawyers in private practice or in-house, in particular those who are new to outsourcing as an area of practice, or those for whom outsourcing is not a major field of specialisation. It will also interest to more general commercial contract lawyers, senior executives at companies engaging in outsourcing, and vendors and consultants working with lawyers on outsourcing deals.
1: What's It All About?
2: Making the Deal
3: What Risks?
4: Foundations and Frameworks
5: The Services
6: Financial Terms
7: Performance Standards
8: Intellectual Property
9: Transitions
10: Governance
12: The Fine Print - Risk Allocations and Remedies
13: Compliance
14: Flavors and Varieties
15: Outsourcing Amid Economic Upheaval
George Kimball, Partner, IT/Telecommunications Practice Group, Baker & McKenzie LLP, San Diego
"It distils the wisdom and knowledge which can only be gained from hard won experience of negotiating outsourcing contracts into a readable and useful survey of the main issues...I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone interested in outsourcing and the related contractual and legal issues" - Clive Davies, Communications Law
"Upon reading it, I have learnt how little I knew and how much much I can learn. Kimball conveys a huge amount of information on outsourcing, from initial negotiations to actions taken upon insolvency, both from a UK and US perspective. It is a text written by a vastly experienced lawyer walking you through the outsourcing minefield from start to finish...The book reflects the author's 15 years experience in the profession. He utilises previous experiences of both failed and successful contracts to illustrate the potential problems of the outsourcing process, while at the same time offering opinions on best practice... Kimball's text is sufficiently thorough that it is all you would need, In fact, I wish it had been there five years ago." - Tom Durbin, International Journal of Law and IT
"This paperback book is an excellent practitioner's guide to outsourcing. It distils the wisdom and knowledge which can only be gained from hard won experience of negotiating outsourcing contracts into readable and useful survey of the main issues...I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone interested in outsourcing and the related contractual and legal issues." - Clive Davies, Senior Counsel, Fujitsu Services LTD, Communications Law 16.1
