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Recent Events
Top Ten issues in Outsourcing - This webinar built on DLA Piper's vast experience of the outsourcing sector by looking at what is felt to be the key issues arising in outsourcing contract negotiations, and the trends which may be observed in relation to them. It took place on Wednesday 7 September 2011 at 4.30 GMT.
Speakers: Kit Burden, Partner, London
Kristof De Vulder, Partner, Brussels
"Negotiating IT Contracts" Masterclass - On 12 July 2011 Rebekah Flaherty, a senior Associate (Australian Qualified) in our London office presented a full day masterclass on "Negotiating IT Contracts" through the Ark Group.
The masterclass focused on the particular issues and risks to consider when procuring IT products and services, covering a range of topics including: - the relationship between commercial risks and the terms of the IT contract
- legal issues affecting the most common IT projects
- which risks can be managed through the contract and which can't?
- contracting models in the IT sector
- negotiating tactics: key issues and the key contractual clauses
- disputes and defaults: protecting your legal rights and remedies
- exit strategies: ensuring a seamless transition and business continuity
Attendees participated in an interactive exercise to identify and discuss practical legal and commercial solutions to problems and risks arising in realistic IT procurement scenarios.
For further information please contact Rebekah Flaherty in our London office. Forthcoming Events
"Plug and pray... portability in the cloud, is the promise of seamless transition a reality?" - Second Cloud Forum workshop, at DLA Piper on 16 November 2011 entitled "Plug and pray... portability in the cloud, is the promise of seamless transition a reality?".
For further information please contact Mark O'Conor in the London office.
Future MESA Webinars - Our complementary MESA Webinar series focuses on topical issues and those which are important to our clients. As such, we would like to ask "what would you like us to talk about?" - we will then present via Webinar the most popular topics.
If you would like to sign up for our Webinar series, or have any queries or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact Michelle Maravilla (MESA IPT Events Co-ordinator) on +971 4 438 6302 or via email at michelle.maravilla@dlapiper.com. | 
