Laurence Jacobs is a partner in the London office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, a member of the firm’s Corporate Group and serves as the head of Milbank’s Technology Group. He joined Milbank as a partner in 2004.
Primary Focus & Experience
Mr. Jacobs focuses mainly on representing parties on a wide range of IT outsourcing and BPO projects, strategic alliances and joint ventures in the sector and other complex commercial projects. He also advises on renegotiations of these contracts.
His recent representations include:
- The National Health Service on the largest civil IT project in the world;
- A leading international bank on a wide range of IT, outsourcing and commercial contracts;
- A leading telecommunications company on a series of major sourcing projects;
- A major international service provider on public and private sector projects; and
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Advising a number of major companies on the development of sourcing strategy.
Recognition & Accomplishments
Mr. Jacobs has been listed by The Lawyer as one of the top 100 lawyers in Europe and his move to Milbank was listed in American Lawyer as one of the ten most significant lateral hires in 2004. He is rated by Chambers as a “star” individual for outsourcing and #1 ranked for IT law.