Mark Lewis
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IT and outsourcing, commercial practice.
Position
Partner and head of the commercial practice. Has worked on some of the first and largest IT, communications and outsourcing projects in Europe. For over 26 years, he has represented public and private sector organisations in many local, regional and international IT and outsourcing projects, including some of the largest in Europe and Asia and notable firsts, such as Europe’s first internet lottery. His experience includes all forms of advanced IT systems projects, IT outsourcing and all variants of business process outsourcing, managed services, human resources outsourcing, knowledge process outsourcing and shared service centre transactions. His transactional and advisory experience covers on-, near- and offshore outsourcing, and global and multijurisdictional transactions. He has much experience in the use of offshore and near shore captives and build-operate-transfer structures. His clients, from a variety of industry sectors, comprise users, customers and a number of the leading IT and outsourcing service providers globally. The latter are typically Fortune 500, UK FTSE 100 and Indian Nasscom Tier 1 providers but he also represents smaller, niche, outsource providers. He therefore has a balanced perspective on the client/supplier relationship in any outsourcing transaction. He works extensively for Indian companies in the IT and IT-enabled services sectors, as well as for UK and European companies offshoring to India. He is an active member of his firm’s India Focus Group. Mr Lewis was formerly the non-executive chairman and later a non-executive director of Morgan Chambers plc (now EquaTerra, a KPMG company), a leading global sourcing consultancy.
Career
Called to Bar of England and Wales, Lincoln’s Inn 1982 (Hardwicke Scholar); admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales 1991. Assistant parliamentary counsel in the parliamentary counsel office, senior legal counsel to HM Treasury, and also served other UK government departments 1983-89; senior associate at Warner Cranston, London 1989-1991; senior associate and later partner and head of the intellectual property group at Stephenson Harwood, London 1991-97; founding partner, senior partner, joint-senior partner and chairman of Arnheim Tite & Lewis (on merger of Tite & Lewis and Arnheim & Co) and Tite & Lewis and global leader of the IT and e-commerce law network of PwC 1997-2004; partner and head of the IT and outsourcing practice at Lawrence Graham LLP, London 2004-06; partner and head of outsourcing practice at Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP, London 2006 to date. Publications include co-authoring the information systems chapters of two manuals on outsourcing: ‘The Outsourcing Practice Manual’ (general editor Angel, Sweet & Maxwell, London), and ‘Technology Outsourcing, A Practitioner’s Guide’ (general editor Angel, The Law Society, London, 2003). Also the author of the information technology outsourcing section of the sixth edition of ‘Computer Law’ (editors Reed and Angel), OUP 2007.
Member
Lincoln’s Inn; Law Society of England and Wales; International Technology Law Association; National Outsourcing Association.
Education
University of Cape Town (1976 BA); University of Warwick (1980 LLB Hons); London School of Economics and Political Science (1981 LLM).
Practice Areas
Corporate and commercial; Information technology
