Mr George Kimball > Wiggin and Dana LLP > New Haven, United States > Lawyer Profile

Wiggin and Dana LLP
256 CHURCH STREET
PO BOX 1832
NEW HAVEN, CT O6508-1832
CONNECTICUT
United States
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Work Department

Corporate, Strategic Sourcing and Technology Transactions

Position

Counsel

Career

George serves as senior Counsel in Wiggin and Dana’s Strategic Sourcing and Technology Transactions Group, advising clients in a wide range of initiatives and opportunities related to outsourcing information technology and business processes. He is the author of Outsourcing Agreements: A Practical Guide (Oxford University Press, 2010) and is ranked as a leading outsourcing lawyer by Chambers Global, Chambers USA, and The Legal 500. He frequently lectures on outsourcing and related subjects and is an adjunct member of the law faculty at the University of Michigan.

Before joining Wiggin and Dana, George was an associate general counsel at Hewlett Packard (HP), where he was responsible for negotiating complex technology transactions and for teaching, training, and practice tools for HP lawyers, sales executives, and account executives and was principal counsel for HP’s cloud and security businesses. Before joining HP, he spent many years as a partner in national law firms and led a Los Angeles technology boutique.

George received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was a member of the Michigan Law Review, and (with his late brother Frank) a winner of Michigan’s moot court competition. He is a graduate of UCLA and University College London. George is admitted to practice in California, Michigan, and New York.

Education

University of Michigan Law School  (J.D.1978), cum laude

University College, University of London  (B.A.1975)

University of California at Los Angeles  (A.B.1973), summa cum laude

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing

Wiggin and Dana LLP‘s strategic sourcing and tech transactions team provides a niche specialism as go-to advisors to the suppliers of outsourced IT, business-process and transformative services. The team, led by Mark Heaphy in New Haven, is frequently the first port of call for Indian-based and US-headquartered global service providers as well as industry-leading companies focused on specific services in certain industries, such as financial services, big data and transformations. In Stamford, Tamia Simonis undertakes global outsourcing arrangements and transactions from RFP through to post-contract support. Simonis and Heaphy advise service providers on ITO, BPO and application development and maintenance as well as digital migration transactions with financial services, insurance and healthcare and medtech companies. George Kimball, in Michigan, is a further key name to note.