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Dundas & Wilson CS LLP’s clients include National Australia Group Europe, Standard Life, and RBS. Recent work includes advising Standard Life Employee Services on outsourcing provision and support of its global data network, telephony services and infrastructure to British Telecom.

Pinsent Masons LLP has particular experience in IT and telecoms work in the insurance sector, and its practice was enhanced by the firm’s merger with McGrigors LLP, the incoming team noted for it’s ‘good level of service and knowledge’. Matthew Godfrey-Faussett and Yvonne Dunn are recommended.

Grant Campbell leads Brodies LLP’s ‘excellent, very professional’ and ‘proactive’ technology, information and outsourcing team. Recent work includes advising Standard Life on framework agreements for IT outsourcing. Other clients include ING Direct and BAE Systems.

Burness LLP recently advised Standard Life on a financial services outsourcing agreement with Mercer. New clients include Bioflow and Maxim Integrated Products. David Goodbrand leads the group, which provides ‘pragmatic, solution-oriented advice’. Helena Brown is ‘incredibly knowledgeable and responsive’.

DLA Piper Scotland LLP gives ‘efficient and business-focused responses’, and is ‘always live to the commercial implications of legal advice’. Clients include Tesco Bank, Capita and Lloyds Banking Group. Practice head John McKinlay and director Callum Sinclair are recommended.

Shepherd and Wedderburn has seen increasing work in the financial services sector for clients including HSBC, Fidelity and Alliance Trust. Paul Carlyle leads the group.

Anderson Strathern recently increased its IT offering by recruiting Shona Tennant and Leigh Davidson from Lindsays. The team is ‘very efficient’, and ‘inspires confidence in its scope of knowledge’.

DWF Biggart Baillie’s team advised VisitScotland on all aspects of its procurement process for a new website software system; and gained new clients Teknek, IRW Systems and Runaway Productions.

Maclay Murray & Spens LLP’s clients include Robert Wiseman Dairies & Sons, which the team recently advised on entering into contracts to upgrade its internal software systems. Other clients include Integrated Environmental Solutions and Scottish Power.

MacRoberts LLP has seen particular growth in data protection work, particularly in the areas of subject access requests and IT security. Clients include Blackwood Foundation and Heliex Power.

McClure Naismith LLP has seen an increase in instructions from investment and asset management firms. Clients include Scottish Widows Investment Partnership and The Dacoll Group.

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