Edward J. Hansen

Partner

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. InformationWeek recently named Mr. Hansen as one of its eleven key "innovators and influencers" who will drive change in the business technology sector in 2004.

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