Partner
Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP
Mark Lewis, partner, leads the Outsourcing practice at Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP. He qualified as a Barrister (England & Wales) in 1982 (Lincoln's Inn, Hardwicke Scholar) and was admitted as a Solicitor (England & Wales) in 1991.
In the course of over 22 years as an IT and outsourcing lawyer, first as senior counsel to the UK Treasury and the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency and, since 1989, in the City of London and internationally, he has been involved in some of the first and largest IT and outsourcing transactions in Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and India. He regularly represents major corporates and service providers in IT and outsourcing. On the provider side, he represents a number of global Tier 2 IT and outsourcing companies and, in India, many of the Nasscom top 15 companies. He has been at the forefront of offshore and near-shore outsourcing projects in India, Sri Lanka, Central and Eastern Europe and South Africa.
Increasingly, his practice is at the intersection of IT and outsourcing with M&A, private equity, securitisation, capital markets, acquisition finance, labour and HR. He advises international organisations, development banks and governments on the use of ICT and outsourcing as development tools.
He is a senior member of Berwin Leighton Paisner's India Focus Group.
Mark was formerly Chairman and subsequently a Non Executive Director of Morgan Chambers plc (now EquaTerra), one Europe's foremost sourcing consultancies. He therefore brings to his knowledge, experience and approach as an outsourcing legal adviser a broadly-based commercial background and understanding of the global outsourcing markets.
Mark has been invited to address many public and private conferences on IT and outsourcing law in the USA, Asia, Africa and Europe. He is co-author of the IT outsourcing 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. He is author of the IT and services chapter in the forthcoming 6th edition of Computer Law, (Editors Reed and Angel), Oxford University Press.
In the course of over 22 years as an IT and outsourcing lawyer, first as senior counsel to the UK Treasury and the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency and, since 1989, in the City of London and internationally, he has been involved in some of the first and largest IT and outsourcing transactions in Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and India. He regularly represents major corporates and service providers in IT and outsourcing. On the provider side, he represents a number of global Tier 2 IT and outsourcing companies and, in India, many of the Nasscom top 15 companies. He has been at the forefront of offshore and near-shore outsourcing projects in India, Sri Lanka, Central and Eastern Europe and South Africa.
Increasingly, his practice is at the intersection of IT and outsourcing with M&A, private equity, securitisation, capital markets, acquisition finance, labour and HR. He advises international organisations, development banks and governments on the use of ICT and outsourcing as development tools.
He is a senior member of Berwin Leighton Paisner's India Focus Group.
Mark was formerly Chairman and subsequently a Non Executive Director of Morgan Chambers plc (now EquaTerra), one Europe's foremost sourcing consultancies. He therefore brings to his knowledge, experience and approach as an outsourcing legal adviser a broadly-based commercial background and understanding of the global outsourcing markets.
Mark has been invited to address many public and private conferences on IT and outsourcing law in the USA, Asia, Africa and Europe. He is co-author of the IT outsourcing 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. He is author of the IT and services chapter in the forthcoming 6th edition of Computer Law, (Editors Reed and Angel), Oxford University Press.