Morgan Lewis Expands Global Outsourcing Capacity

NEW YORK, January 20, 2005: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP announced today that Akiba Stern and Ed Hansen, of Shaw Pittman’s New York office will be joining Morgan Lewis’ New York office, as partners in its global Outsourcing Practice.

Commenting on their arrival, David W. Pollak, Co-Leader of the Business and Finance Practice said, "I am delighted to welcome Akiba and Ed to the firm. They both have excellent reputations in the outsourcing and technology market and their significant experience and diverse client relationships will be a strong fit with our expanding international practice."

Akiba Stern- Mr. Stern concentrates his practice on information technology and business process outsourcing; information technology-enabled business transactions; Internet matters; electronic commerce; technology transfers; licensing; intellectual property; and joint ventures. The Chambers USA and Chambers Global Leading Lawyers Guides cited Mr. Stern as "the one to go to" for information technology (IT) and corporate transactions, and for "his facility for closing enormous deals." He has advised clients for more than 25 years in all aspects of business law both as in-house counsel and at law firms.

Ed Hansen - Ed Hansen’s practice is devoted solely to representing clients in technology transactions, with an emphasis in representing users of technology. Mr. Hansen’s practice includes negotiating outsourcing agreements, system acquisitions, telecommunications service agreements, custom software development, software distribution agreements, professional services agreements and Internet-related matters. Mr. Hansen represents a broad range of clients from start-up software developers to multinational corporations contracting for global systems and services. InformationWeek recently named Mr. Hansen as one of its eleven key "innovators and influencers" who will drive change in the business technology sector.

The more than 20 lawyers in the Outsourcing Practice at Morgan Lewis have a long history of structuring and negotiating complex outsourcing and managed services agreements. Morgan Lewis outsourcing attorneys represent clients in a wide range of transactions – ranging from global IT outsourcing agreements to business process outsourcing agreements for such processes as human resources, finance and accounting, logistics, call centers and claim processing.. Morgan Lewis has specialized expertise across a breadth of regulated industries, with particular focus on the life sciences, energy and financial services industries. These lawyers are able to draw on their own specialized skills as well as the resources of many key practice areas throughout the Firm, including labor and employee benefits, data privacy, tax and intellectual property.

Morgan Lewis is a global law firm with over 1,200 lawyers in 19 offices located in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Pittsburgh, Princeton, Chicago, Palo Alto, Dallas, Harrisburg, Irvine, Boston, London, Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt and Tokyo.