Baker & McKenzie

Tel: +44 (0)20 7919 1000
Website: http://www.bakernet.com
Contact: Richard Hawtin - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Baker & McKenzie is the leading global law firm with 67 offices in 39 countries. Two things differentiate our outsourcing practice from other firms.  First, our strength in depth, within and across jurisdictions.  Second, our focus on the entire lifecycle of a deal - ensuring our experience in resolving problems is applied to reduce the chance of difficulties arising in the first place.

As a result we are top-ranked by independent commentators as an outsourcing (and technology) law firm in numerous jurisdictions, including the UK.  We represent both customers and suppliers, in both the private and public sectors, on the full range of outsourcing transactions (including IT, BPO, HRO, F&A and FM) on deals which are both UK only and European / global in reach.

BancTec Limited

Tel: +44 (0)1753 778 888
Website: http://www.banctec.co.uk
Contact: Gordon Gove - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

BancTec is a worldwide systems integration, business process outsourcing, support and maintenance company, which delivers high-volume, mission critical solutions to automate and streamline data and paper-intensive business processes to blue chip organisations. 

Founded over 30 years ago, BancTec strives to improve customer operations, enchance productivitiy and reduce operating costs.  Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the company employs more that 4,000 employees, serving more than 5,000 customers spanning multiple industries in 50 countries around the world.

BancTec BPO Services is a UK operation, with facilities in Harlow, Durham, Heathrow and Colnbrook as well as a BPO centre in Dublin, Eire.  BancTec BPO Services was established in 1996 to provide high volume, high quality business process management, transaction processing, document processing and conversion services and serves clients in the Financial Services, Utilities, Government, Transportation, Telecoms, Leisure and Retail sectors.  For more information on BancTec BPO Services email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). 

Bcerta Ltd

Tel: +44 (0)141 243 2592
Website: http://www.bcerta.com
Contact: Jim Brannan - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Bcerta helps clients to be sure that their workforce is fit to meet the demands of the business.  We manage a large UK/International network of medical professionals who deliver our services locally.  Our bespoke web based system makes the process easy for all users and significantly speeds up the whole experience, saving clients time and money.

Bird & Bird LLP

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7415 6000
Website: http://www.twobirds.com
Contact: Mark Leach - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Our International Outsourcing Practice provides specialised transactional legal services to
businesses engaged in outsourcing transactions. Our widely regarded team advises on the full
range of technology and BPO transactions, acting for both customers and suppliers.

Our work spans both the private and public sectors and we have over 25 years’ experience in the
field. The international strength and depth of our practice means we are able to handle the largest
and most complex deals, many of which have an international or offshoring dimension.

We have an outstanding reputation for helping our clients achieve success, built on many years of innovation and excellent project management.

Blake Newport Associates Ltd

Tel: +44 (0)20 7648 4140
Website: http://www.blakenewport.co.uk
Contact: Samantha Haigh - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Blake Newport’s experience of providing commercial and contact strategic advice and dispute resolution services allows us to quickly respond to a client’s requirements and provide an individual or team that can quickly integrate with or lead a client’s team; rapidly understanding and implementation the solution.

Blake Newport’s has worked on a wide variety of large-scale technology projects since our first major involvement in IT outsourcing in 1998. Our experience ranges from complicated UK Government PFI schemes to high-value private contracts. Having provided the full range of commercial services from the pre-contract phase, through the post-signature term to close-out, exit and dispute resolution, we have a vast amount of expertise.

We have considerable experience in the negotiation and on-going management of some of the largest outsourcing and systems integration deals in Europe, including contracts for Hosting, Desktop, Service Management, Applications Development and Applications Maintenance services delivering hardware, software and services.

Blue Rock Consulting

Tel: +44 (0)20 7213 9760
Website: http://www.bluerock-consulting.com/index.html
Contact: Simon Pearce - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Bluerock is a specialist management consultancy working with many of the most prestigious global financial services organisations for the last 10 years. We have developed a unique “Best Practice” approach to optimising all forms of sourcing relationships and to help those relationships to deliver their true benefits. This enables our clients to focus on business strategies and deliver more effective, differentiated offerings in the market. All of our people have at least ten years relevant experience and a deep understanding of the business issues faced by our clients. Our style is hands-on and collaborative, working as an integral part of our clients’ teams and delivering in a style which suits the organisation. Above all we develop mutual trust and commitment. Our subsidiary business, Aldermans, provides independent consultants and project staff to meet client demand for very specific skills and expertise on a non-permanent basis.

Bristows

Tel: +44 207 400 8000
Website: http://www.bristows.com
Contact: Toby Crick - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Bristows is a dynamic and globally recognised law firm based in London with a client base that includes many of the world’s leading companies. Our clients come from a wide range of industries - IT, financial services, media, real estate and life sciences.
More than half our technology and outsourcing lawyers have backgrounds in IT or engineering, giving Bristows a unique level of technical expertise.

Our team advises on every aspect of outsourcing contracts. We work with providers and users of services for various business processes - including IT infrastructure, finance and accounting, desktop, application development and support, communications, facilities management and merchant acquiring - and have experience of negotiating and drafting both onshore and offshore arrangements. Our specialist lawyers are experienced in all the varied elements of outsourcing including procurement strategies, pricing, service level agreements, TUPE, corporate, tax and property issues as well as the issues arising in the context of outsourcing to the cloud.

bss

Tel: +44 (0)845 600 1317
Website: http://www.bss.org/
Contact: Dani Muir - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

At bss we specialise in providing information and handling responses on behalf of our clients and their target audiences. The subjects covered are diverse, ranging from social, health, educational, and public service issues through to those of a more entertaining or commercial nature. Whatever the information, bss provides a vital link between our clients and those they serve, be they customers, supporters, the general public, viewers or listeners.

Burges Salmon LLP

Tel: +44 (0)117 939 2000
Website: http://www.burges-salmon.com
Contact: Andrew Dunlop - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Burges Salmon is a law firm with specialist expertise in outsourcing and joint ventures, with a wealth of experience in international and nearshore transactions and actively involved in key industry bodies including the NOA Board (international director) and as the only legal representative on the City Financial, Insurance and Assurance Working Group dealing with outsourcing issues.

buyingTeam

Tel: +44 (0)20 7611 4999
Website: http://www.buyingteam.com
Contact: Guy Strafford - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

buyingTeam is a procurement outsourcer and solutions provider, bringing extraordinary benefits to blue chip organisations across Europe and North America via an innovative knowledge-based shared services model.  Fundamental to our success is how we change the way our clients think about procurement, redefining it as an indispensable strategic tool.  By doing so, we release procurement’s potential to make our clients leaner, fitter, stronger organisations.

The growth of buyingTeam can tell you something about both the effectiveness of the work we do and its emerging importance.  Founded in 1994, our offering was established as a response to an opportunity to exploit an area of corporate spend where maximum value has not traditionally been extracted.  Having grown at more than 25% a year for more than five years, we are now we are the largest shared services procurement function in Europe, constantly building and sharing our expertise across more than a hundred categories.  We help many household names, and many of our clients have been with us for over a decade, testament to the success of our approach.