Denton Wilde Sapte follows on from an excellent year in TMT with hire of outsourcing specialist

12 June 2009

Denton Wilde Sapte has rounded off one of the most successful years ever for its Technology, Media and Telecoms team through the hire of leading outsourcing lawyer Amanda Lewis.

Amanda, one of the country's best- known outsourcing lawyers, joins the firm as a partner from Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP, where, over the last 10 years, she has built up a wealth of experience in major outsourcing projects for clients in the financial services, infrastructure and public sectors.

Amanda spent five years as senior legal counsel to ICL Fujitsu and has established a considerable reputation in the outsourcing industry through her work on landmark deals and through her authorship of one of the leading texts on outsourcing.

Denton Wilde Sapte's TMT practice revenue grew 12 per cent last financial year off the back of work for clients including Nokia, Al Jazeera, Virgin, Palm and Vodafone. Highlights from the team's work in the last year include working on key outsourcing projects for Sainsbury's, Vodafone, the Ministry of Defence and First Data.

The team has recently been short listed in The Lawyer awards this year for TMT Team of the Year category for their work on the East African Sub-Sea Cable System (EASSy) project, led by Telecoms partner Rod Kirwan.

"We are delighted to welcome Amanda to our Outsourcing team.  We have had one of the leading practices in this area for many years, and Amanda will help us to build on that success.  Our TMT practice has proved robust in the current turbulent market conditions and we have seen growth across the board, but especially in Outsourcing, as well as our IP, Telecoms and Media practices," says TMT department head Catherine Bingham.

"We have always had a strong focus on outsourcing," adds TMT sector head Scott Singer. "This year we have really reaped the benefits of our sector based strategy, winning new instructions from clients in the financial services, infrastructure, telecoms and energy fields, each looking for specialist outsourcing knowledge married to a keen understanding of their operating environments.  Amanda shares our vision of delivering a pragmatic and excellent service and is one of the very few specialist outsourcing lawyers we felt would be able to help us build on our existing success."

DWS' Outsourcing practice is one of the largest in the City, consisting of seven core partners within the TMT department, supported by more than a dozen senior associates and associates. It is widely regarded as one of the country's leading practices.