Profile Kit Burden
Head of Technology & Sourcing Group
DLA Piper

Kit specialises in outsourcing and complex technology transactions, advising users and suppliers of IT/BPO and outsourcing services.

Major clients include UBS, Financial Times, Dixons, TUI, Lloyds TSB, Birds Eye Iglo, HCL Technologies, Red Hat, Royal Bank of Scotland/ABN Amro and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

He is identified as a leading outsourcing and technology lawyer by the leading legal directories, including the Legal 500, Legal Experts and Chambers, who describe him as "a brilliant lawyer" with "a grand reputation". Kit is a Trustee of the Society of Computers and Law and chairs its Outsourcing Group. Kit writes for various journals on IT and outsourcing and is the author of two leading publications, on Computer Contracts and the Legal Protection of Computer Software.