Contact: Nigel Stamp or Gordon Milner
Morrison & Foerster has an in-depth knowledge and experience of sourcing transactions in China and Asia in a wide range of
industries including banking, finance and insurance; manufacturing; media, communications and technology and retail. Our lawyers
have provided transactional and regulatory support to both service providers and users across a broad spectrum of sourcing
transactions including:
- IT Outsourcing. The outsourcing of mainframes, servers, desktops, network infrastructure, maintenance and helpdesk functions, including issues
such as offshore delivery models, transferring staff and assets, intellectual property matters, service levels, benchmarking,
technology refresh, obtaining 3rd party consents and exit management.
- Services Procurement and Delivery. The procurement and/or delivery of horizontal business functions such as HR administration, payroll, finance and accounting
and procurement as well as vertical business processes such as customer helpdesk and back office administration.
- Licensing. Intellectual property (IP) related transactions, including software development agreements, licensing models, IP registration
and protection and escrow arrangements.
- Restructuring and Hive Down Arrangements. The hive down of existing internal service providing assets within a business in order to enable the expansion of services
to external clients, including due diligence, transferring staff and assets, corporate restructuring, preparation of standard
contracts and IP licensing models.
- Regulatory Support. Providing regulatory support for both service providers and users of outsourced services in China, including cross border
regulatory issues such as technology transfer, telecoms licensing, data privacy and encryption control issues.
Two of the key partners in our China Sourcing Practice lead a team which was ranked in the first tier in Hong Kong and in
the PRC for technology and outsourcing work in the 2006-2008 editions of the Asia Pacific Legal 500 directory and recognized
by Chambers Asia and Chambers Global as leaders in the field.
Our China team is backed up by a Global Sourcing Practice with more than 60 experienced sourcing lawyers in our US, European
and Asian offices to provide a seamless global service on all aspects of sourcing.
