Today, few businesses are strictly local. Even enterprise customers with purely local markets can have international service needs.
Purely domestic transactions may arise from customer preference, legal mandate or perceived advantages to protect special relationships such as customer personal data.
Today, even the smallest enterprise competes in a global marketplace. Small to mid-size enterprises therefore must consider how international and global outsourcing deal structures might effectively benefit them. Certainly global enterprises such as General Electric and Microsoft already play the game.
The legal character of international and global deals requires evaluation of a skilled attorney working with other attorneys in foreign countries. Such a team can be managed by an on-shore attorney with foreign colleagues or conducted through a global law firm. When hiring a lawyer or legal team, considerations of cost, liability, confidentiality and team management should be addressed.
International outsourcing is regulated in many ways by countries affected by the transactions. Deal structures reflect this legal environment, with allocations of service delivery teams across borders according to particular function and the value added of proximity to the customer onshore or on-site or streamlined service delivery operations in a high-tech center offshore.
Today, even the smallest enterprise competes in a global marketplace. Small to mid-size enterprises therefore must consider how international and global outsourcing deal structures might effectively benefit them. Certainly global enterprises such as General Electric and Microsoft already play the game.
The legal character of international and global deals requires evaluation of a skilled attorney working with other attorneys in foreign countries. Such a team can be managed by an on-shore attorney with foreign colleagues or conducted through a global law firm. When hiring a lawyer or legal team, considerations of cost, liability, confidentiality and team management should be addressed.