Our lawyers work closely with members of the Firm's Corporate Practice to address employment issues that arise in corporate mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations.  We have significant expertise in the areas of executive compensation and benefits, and extensive experience negotiating and drafting employment agreements, and counseling clients on due diligence, WARN Act, union issues, and employee retention and termination issues, both domestically and internationally.

Our lawyers also have significant experience in major information technology and business process outsourcing transactions, both in the United States and abroad.  Lawyers from the Firm's offices around the world regularly represent both outsourcing providers and outsourcing customers in a broad range of industries.  As with all major transactions, our lawyers combine technical outsourcing expertise and experience with practical business orientation and industry knowledge to help clients identify opportunities and risks and structure appropriate business solutions.

Large outsourcing transactions frequently involve the transfer of personnel, facilities, hardware, software, intellectual property, and operational responsibilities from the company to the outsourcer, raising a wide array of legal issues.  To address these issues, our lawyers typically join client business people and in-house lawyers as part of the client's team.  When representing a company that is considering outsourcing a business function, we assist in drafting the request for information and request for proposal and evaluating competing vendors, then work with the client in structuring, negotiating, and drafting the best business solution.  When representing an outsourcing provider, we assist the client in responding to requests for information and requests for proposal and negotiating and drafting the final contracts.