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Laurence Jacobs is a partner in the firm's Technology Transactions and Outsourcing Group based in London, having previously headed the outsourcing practice at a "magic circle" firm in London.
Laurence has wide experience in a wide range of IT and business process outsourcing and also of strategic alliances, joint ventures and projects in this sector. He advises on the development of outsourcing strategy for a number of major companies and institutions.
His experience includes advising on the world's largest civil IT project, the recent NHS National Programme for IT in the UK, a complex transaction involving nine major contracts arranged at both local and national level. Laurence has also advised Barclays, EDS, Equant, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, Lloyds TSB, RBS,
T-Systems, Unisys and SAIC on major technology outsourcing projects.
Laurence qualified as an English solicitor in 1990, became a partner at Allen & Overy in 1997 and joined Milbank as a partner in 2004. He has published articles in the Independent newspaper and Computing, EIPR and Managing Intellectual Property journals. He has been rated in Chambers UK Directory and the Legal 500 as one of the UK's leading outsourcing/information technology lawyers. In 2004 he was also listed by the Lawyer as one of the top 100 lawyers in Europe and in 2007 was recommended for IT and
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