Outsourcing
Hall of Fame
The lawyers at the very top of the profession, widely known and respected by peers and clients for their longstanding involvement in market-leading work.
Hall of fameMcDermott Will & Emery LLP
David Guedry is nationally recognized for more than 25 years of leadership advising global service providers and Fortune 1000 companies on complex sourcing relationships, including assisting with developing legal, operational and business strategies, and translating strategy into the practical negotiation and documentation of deals. David’s experience includes managing the complexities of information technology (IT) and telecommunication outsourcing agreements, business process outsourcing arrangements (with an emphasis on HR and finance and accounting (F&A) outsourcing), distribution relationships, licensing arrangements, and joint ventures, strategic alliances and teaming relationship. He also assists clients in turning unprofitable, troubled relationships into profitable, referable accounts by guiding the client through the process of identifying, developing and successfully implementing turnaround solutions. Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/guedry-david/
Hall of fameKirkland & Ellis LLP
Gregg Kirchhoefer is a partner of Kirkland & Ellis where he founded the Technology and IP Transactions and Outsourcing practice groups. His practice focuses on technology and IP matters, with particular emphases on agreements and counseling related to outsourcing (ITO, BPO, and other) agreements, IT agreements (ERP and software licenses and services agreements), strategic alliance agreements, IP and technology licenses, “As-A-Service” agreements, supply chain and distribution agreements, contract manufacturing agreements, and M&A agreements. His experience in outsourcing spans almost 40, years and, in that time, he has handled some of the largest, most comprehensive outsourcings in history. Gregg represents both customers and service providers in these type of matters. He is a Certified Outsourcing Professional and is an inductee in the IAOP Outsourcing Leadership Hall of Fame, has a Martindale-Hubbell AV rating, and has received numerous top tier rankings.
Hall of fameHunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Partner, chairman of the Executive Committee, former co-chair of the firm's corporate team, former chair of the global technology and outsourcing practice group, and former co-chair of its retail and consumer products industry practice group
Hall of fameDLA Piper LLP (US)
Partner; Global Co-Chair, Technology Transactions and Strategic Sourcing
Rising stars
Rising stars with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Todd Herst is an associate in Kirkland's Chicago Technology & IP Transactions Practice Group, focusing on structuring and negotiating complex transactions involving technology, intellectual property, and data, including mergers and acquisitions, licensing arrangements, outsourcing/services arrangements, bankruptcy matters, joint ventures, and strategic alliances.
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Leading lawyers
The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Daniel Angel is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn's Technology Transactions Practice Group and a member of its Strategic Sourcing and Commercial Transactions Practice Group. Daniel focuses on IP and technology licensing, commercial technology transactions (including outsourcing and SaaS arrangements), and IP and IT issues in connection with M&A and financing transactions. He has worked with a variety of clients ranging from market leaders to start-ups in a wide range of industries, including financial services, private equity funds, life sciences, specialty chemicals, insurance, energy and telecommunications.
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Shawn C. Helms is co-head of the Firm’s Technology Transactions & Outsourcing Practice. Shawn has broad experience in the areas of information technology, outsourcing, blockchain, crypto, artificial intelligence (AI), digital health and telecommunications. He focuses his practice on complex transactions involving technology and intellectual property, including information technology outsourcing (ITO), business process outsourcing (BPO), licensing, cloud computing arrangements (IaaS, SaaS and PaaS), technology maintenance and services, technology development/customization (including iPhone and Android), wireless infrastructure, AI, generative AI (such as ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion), social media issues, strategic alliances, e-commerce, internet of things (IoT), confidentiality, strategic sourcing and data security/privacy. Shawn has considerable experience in blockchain and cryptocurrency matters including NFTs, DAOs and enterprise blockchain applications. Shawn regularly works on the transactional aspects of cryptocurrency bankruptcy and liquidation matters. Shawn also regularly works on digital health matters involving wearables, data licensing and strategy issues, AI and mobile applications. He also advises clients on IT and IP diligence, transition services agreements (TSAs) and other technology and intellectual property matters relating to the acquisition or divestiture of businesses. Shawn also has significant experience in advising clients through software audits and related negotiations and settlements, open source software issues and software escrow matters. Shawn has been working in the field of AI for more than 10 years and is the founding member of the McDermott AI cross-practice group and resource center (ailawcenter.com). Shawn is regularly working with clients in connection with issues related to utilizing generative AI, particularly in the implementation and utilization of technologies like ChatGPT, Bard, Dall-E 2, Stable Diffusion, and GitHub Copilot.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Neil's practice focuses on intellectual property and technology-related transactions, including outsourcing (business process and information technology), software development, licensing, telecommunications, commercial agreements, joint ventures and strategic alliances. Neil has represented both customers and providers, domestically and internationally, in the outsourcing of functions including IT, human resources, F&A, procurement and call centers, among others. Neil also advises clients on intellectual property and technology issues that arise in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations and bankruptcies.
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Jason Krieser is the co-head of the Firm’s Technology & Outsourcing Practice, and the office managing partner for Dallas. He advises clients on all aspects of technology transactions, outsourcing matters, telecommunications and other complex commercial contracts, including artificial intelligence, (AI), digital health, telecommunications and robotic process automation arrangements. He is an internationally recognized advisor on outsourcing matters, including information technology (IT), business process (finance and accounting, human resources, logistics and facilities management) and offshore issues. He also handles technology development and licensing matters, joint ventures, strategic alliances, manufacturing agreements, key supply and distribution agreements, enterprise blockchain applications, other complex service agreements, Internet of Things (IoT) and e-commerce matters. Jason also regularly works on digital health matters, data licensing and strategy issues and mobile applications. He has handled cloud-computing transactions for the past 20 years, including software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) transactions. Jason is the co-author of a legal treatise on outsourcing law titled Outsourcing: Law and Business published by Law Journal Press (the treatise publishing arm of American Lawyer Media). This treatise gives detailed treatment to all material legal and business issues associated with outsourcing transactions. The form of master outsourcing services agreement developed by Jason and his co-author, and featured in the treatise, is publicly available and widely used in the outsourcing industry. For more information, see www.outsourcingmsa.com. Jason is also the co-author of a Bloomberg BNA portfolio titled “Technology and Outsourcing”.
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Baker McKenzie LLP
Eversheds Sutherland
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP