The Evolution of Outsourced Services and Value Assurance in Today’s Marketplace

Friday, October 31, 2008
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (CST)

The marketplace for IT and business process services outsourcing has reached maturity and best practice processes for identifying, procuring and managing outsourced services have been established. In this Webinar, we will survey the current state of the marketplace, address hot issues and offer tips for value assurance in business case development, contracting, and transition and steady state governance. The format will be a practical and informative presentation followed by a question and answer period. Materials will be provided to all registrants.

The speakers for this Webinar will be as follows:

• Thomas L. Hall leads EquaTerra, Inc.’s Contract Architecture and Negotiations Group and manages its Outsourced Services Restructuring service offering.
• Ben Schafer, with EquaTerra, assists buyers of outsourced services with negotiations, transition services, and governance to manage these agreements and relationships.
• Milton Whitfield, a Partner on the Haynes and Boone Outsourcing Team, advises companies in all aspects of negotiations and contracting in outsourcing transactions.

EquaTerra Inc., sourcing advisors help clients achieve sustainable value in their business processes. With an average of more than 20 years of industry experience and over 600 global transformation and outsourcing projects, EquaTerra’s advisors offer unmatched industry expertise. EquaTerra focuses on Finance and Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement and other critical business processes with advisors throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. EquaTerra’s professionals are passionate about providing objective, conflict-free advice to EquaTerra’s clients. EquaTerra helps clients achieve significant cost savings and process improvement with outsourcing, internal transformation and shared services solutions.

The Haynes and Boone Outsourcing Team regularly assists companies in advising, structuring, negotiating and documenting all aspects of both ITO and BPO transactions and has in-depth experience in leading transactions in the banking / financial, energy, computer, health care and hospital, insurance, manufacturing, retail and transportation industries. The team is supported with international, employment, tax, immigration, corporate, government contracts and real estate attorneys, and has established relationships with highly regarded technology law firms in Europe, Latin America and Asia.

HOW TO REGISTER:
Please register online at www.haynesboone.com - Upcoming Events

For questions about this event, contact Rosa Sommers rosa.sommers@haynesboone.com  or 214.651.5765

Dial-in instructions will be provided prior to the Webinar to those who register to attend.

This course has been approved for MCLE credit by the State Bar of Texas Committee on MCLE in the amount of 1.0 credit hours.