Eversheds Sutherland

Tom is a Partner and head of the Commercial group in Manchester which has won the Manchester Legal Awards “Commercial Team of the Year” for four consecutive years. Tom is ranked as a leading individual in the Northwest by Legal 500.

Tom was a pioneer of BPO outsourcing in the 1990s and has a wide ranging practice, specialising in IT procurement, outsourcing projects, high value contractual arrangements, franchising and complex supply chain issues.

He has particular expertise in the following: technology; franchising; chemicals; financial services; hotels/leisure; logistics and warehousing.

Recent experience includes advising:

an insurance broker on a £400m business processing outsourcing deal;  a global agro-chemicals business on a number of related strategic long term and high value supply agreements in Italy, Canada, the USA, the Netherlands, Mexico and Brazil as part of a global disposal;  a high street bank on a £150m applications maintenance and development outsourcing;  an international chemical business on a £1bn of supply agreements in territories including UK, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland;  a supplier on complex strategic outsourcing of client card production, embossing and personalisation and printing of statements;  on a £75m logistics outsourcing deal;  an airline on a £200m outsourcing project for airline services;  H20 on a £100m outsourcing deal with Thames Water.

Tom has developed an international training programme for clients on managing risk and maximising value in contracts which is very popular with clients.

Legal 500 states that Tom is “brilliant”.

Brexit

Tom is one of our specialist Brexit lawyers. Contact Tom Bridgford for more information on how Brexit may affect your contracts. View our Brexit hub for our full range of Brexit resources

Listen to our podcast: Brexit –planning for uncertainty - "What if?" has become "what now?".This is a short podcast from our Commercial team. Following the momentous vote to Brexit, we have two of our commercial experts, Tom Bridgford, one of our partners and Claire Stewart, a member of our professional support team, who are going to talk about how you can protect your business against some of the inevitable uncertainties that the UK will now be facing. We will also be hearing from Dan Roskis from our Paris office and Alex Niethammer from our Munich office about how Brexit will impact on clients in their jurisdictions.

Contractual risk analysis and Brexit proofing - Guiding businesses through Brexit

The UK’s momentous vote to leave the EU marks the dawn of an unprecedented period of uncertainty for business. Whilst the precise nature of the UK’s future relationship with the EU and the impact this will have on business and trading arrangements is currently unknown, it is generally agreed that there are five models for the future UK/EU trade structure post Brexit. The impact each of these models would have on business differs significantly.

Contractual risk analysis and Brexit proofing for your IT and Outsourcing arrangements - Guiding businesses through BrexitUsing our Brexit Risk Analysis, we can help you answer your questions, understand the potential risks to your trading arrangements arising from Brexit (whether pricing, currency, regulatory, tariff, people, data or otherwise) and put measures in place to protect against those risks.

Publications

View, share or download the Eversheds Enhance brochureTom has recently contributed to the Eversheds Enhance guide to efficient contract delivery.

View, share or download the "Eversheds guide to commercial contracts across Europe" brochureTom has recently contributed to Eversheds guide to commercial contracts across Europe brochure.

Download the European commercial agency guideTom has recently contributed to Eversheds "Examining the issuues across Europe" brochure. A country by country guide to commercial agents.

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