Osler’s internationally recognized outsourcing advisory team has decades of industry-leading experience in helping our clients achieve their outsourcing goals. We provide cost-effective, value-added and practical legal advice, anchored by mutual trust, open communication and close personal relationships with our clients. Our success has been built upon the following differentiating factors:
- Relationships – We understand that successful outsourcing is based on a “win-win” collaboration between the service provider and the customer.
- Facilitative approach – We have earned a reputation for having a practical and facilitative approach to negotiations.
- Industry insight – Our lawyers are leaders in a variety of industry organizations, gaining them exposure to substantial state-of-the-art industry insights and trends.
- Cost effectiveness – We understand the importance of delivering value. We work with our clients to develop fee estimates and strategies for ensuring legal costs are consistent with our clients’ expectations.
- Experience – Our lawyers have been advising customers and service providers in significant outsourcings for 25 years.
We specialize in outsourcing in the following sectors:
- Information technology
- Financial services
- Transportation and logistics
- Health Care
- Government
- Manufacturing
- General business processes
Key Contacts
Partner, Technology, Toronto
Partner, Technology, Toronto
Representative Work
- A major mining company in a significant remote-infrastructure outsourcing arrangement.
- A national retailer in a number of significant outsourcings including managed network services and off shoring of application services and development to India.
- A large utility in a billion-dollar outsourcing of IT, procurement and finance functions.
- A national retailer in data centre and network outsourcing with a national telco provider.
- A major Canadian financial institution in an outsourcing of cash management facilities involving transfer of personnel and establishment of information technology systems.
- A major Canadian financial institution in a cross-border outsourcing of its credit-card processing.
- A large logistics provider in its negotiation of a complex logistics arrangement with a national grocery retailer.
- A large logistics provider for its negotiation of complex, third-party logistics outsourcing arrangements with customers in the health-care and retail sectors.
- A number of shared-ownership entities in outsourcing regional digital image repositories.
- For both hospitals and suppliers, the outsourcing of purchasing and supply chain services.
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SubscribeAwards and Recognition
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Chambers Canada: Canada’s Leading Lawyers for Business: Recognized in Information Technology (Band 1)
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Chambers Canada Awards 2019: Osler named ‘Technology Law Firm of the Year’ at Chambers Canada Awards
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Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business: Recognized in Information Technology (Band 1)
- “The talent and dedication of Osler’s practitioners have really impressed me.”
- “They are very solution-oriented, technical, knowledgeable and up to date.”
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The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory: Recognized in Technology Transactions (Toronto, Ontario; Montreal, Quebec; Ottawa, Ontario)
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Legal 500: Recognized in Public Procurement; Technology (Tier 1)