Nick Barwood

Commercial.

Nick is a partner, head of the commercial team and UK Chair of Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP. He has over 20 years’ experience of advising on commercial projects of all types. He is often asked to provide strategic input into a variety of complex and business critical projects across a broad range of industrial, consumer goods and retail businesses. He is recognised for his commercial acumen and solution-driven approach. His main area of expertise is in relation to outsourcing, particularly logistics, supply chain management and third party services contracts. These have included a number of large contracts for the outsourcing of specialist services as well as the setting up and ongoing management of fulfilment and installation services managed by third parties. Nick is client partner for a number of well-known clients including national retailers, hospitality companies and other major FTSE or equivalent companies and is often asked to provide input into a variety of strategic and business critical projects. Work undertaken involves a wide spectrum of business support functions, including all aspects of outsourced operations including open and closed book distribution and warehousing agreements, business process outsourcing, collaborative partnering arrangements, development and implementation of new business models and business re-engineering of key business operations.