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10/05/09 Negotiation and Vendor Relationships, presented at Forrester's Sourcing & Vendor Management Council Member Meeting, Chicago
07/30/09 Governance Models—Managing Risk in Global Sourcing, presented at World BPO Forum, Jersey City, NJ
05/06/09 Outsourcing in Financial Services, presented at a Morgan Lewis Seminar, New York
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11/24/09 How an Outsourcing Advisor Can Save You Money, CIO
Ed Hansen discusses how outsourcing advisors can save customers' money on the front- and back-ends of outsourcing deals.
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Ed Hansen discusses the benefits and potential pitfalls of speed sourcing.
04/29/09 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: 10 Tips for Outsourcing Incentives and Penalties that Work, CIO
Ed Hansen discusses the provisions to avoid when entering into an IT services agreement.
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Practice Accolades

Outsourcing

Listed in Band 1 for National Outsourcing in Chambers USA (2009)

Listed as a leader in Outsourcing in Chambers Global (2008–2010)

Listed as a leader in Outsourcing in the Legal 500 (2008, 2009)

Listed as Highly Recommended for Outsourcing in PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook (2010)

Listed as Recommended for Outsourcing in PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook (2008, 2009)

Honors + Affiliations

Member, Society for Information Management (SIM)

Member, Computer Law Association

Member, American Bar Association

Listed, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2005–2010)

Listed, Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers (2006–2010)

Listed as a Leading Lawyer for Outsourcing in PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook (2010)

Listed as Recommended for Outsourcing in PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook (2008 & 2009)

Bar Admissions

  • New York
  • New Jersey
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Edward J. Hansen
Partner


Email: ehansen@morganlewis.com
New York
101 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10178-0060
Phone: 212.309.6035
Fax: 212.309.6273

Edward J. Hansen is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Business and Finance Practice. Mr. Hansen's practice is devoted solely to representing clients in technology transactions, with an emphasis in representing clients in complex information technology and business process outsourcing transactions. He frequently works with clients from the very early stages of a transaction, working from the project definition phase and assisting clients apply a "best practices" approach to the business and legal negotiation process.

Mr. Hansen's practice includes negotiating system acquisitions, telecommunications service agreements, outsourcing agreements (including telecommunications, networking, data center, desktop, application development and maintenance, and business process outsourcing), custom software development, software distribution agreements, professional services agreements and internet-related matters.  In the internet arena, Mr. Hansen's practice includes crafting all types of internet distribution arrangements, digital media distribution (including digital music licensing and distribution), application service provider (ASP) arrangements, hosting agreements, colocation agreements, internet service provider (ISP)/remote access agreements and Web development agreements.  Mr. Hansen represents a broad range of clients from start-up software developers to multinational corporations contracting for global systems and services.

A frequent speaker on outsourcing and technology transactions topics, Mr. Hansen has also written articles in the New York Law Journal and Optimize and has been widely quoted in CIO Magazine, InformationWeek, eWeek, ComputerWorld, Baseline and Workforce Management. Mr. Hansen has been named one of 11 key "innovators and influencers" who will drive change in the business technology sector by InformationWeek.

Mr. Hansen is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey.

Education

  • Saint John's University School of Law, 1990, J.D.
  • New York University, 1987, B.A.