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Experience:
Rebecca Eisner focuses her practice on business and technology sourcing and outsourcing, information technology transactions, electronic commerce, privacy, and security.
Rebecca has represented clients in complex global and offshore technology and business process outsourcing transactions, including information technology, finance and accounting, human resources, procurement, customer relationship and call centers, and development and transformational outsourcing. She also has experience with re-structuring and re-negotiating outsourcing transactions, in-sourcing, managing acquisitions and divestitures in outsourcing transactions, and termination of outsourcing arrangements. She has also represented clients in structuring strategic sourcing relationships, including joint development agreements, preferred partner services agreements, and strategic alliances.
Rebecca has represented both buyers and providers of technology goods and services. Her extensive experience includes software licensing, maintenance, support and development, application maintenance, offshore development, ERP implementations, systems integrations, back office processing services, ASP agreements, technology development and licensing agreements, hosting and data center agreements, telecommunications and network management agreements, and hardware acquisition and maintenance agreements. Rebecca regularly advises clients in Internet and e-commerce law issues, including data transfer and privacy issues, electronic contracting and signatures, and web site design and review.
Rebecca is nationally ranked in the areas of technology and business process outsourcing. She has been described as "an excellent attorney, due to her cutting-edge work on ITO, e-commerce and privacy matters, as well as general BPO," as "intelligent, focused and pragmatic," and as "a patient negotiator who brings the important legal issues to the fore." Rebecca has also been lauded for her "ability to get the results we're looking for without antagonizing the other party" (Chambers Global and Chambers USA). She has also been named as among the World's Leading Lawyers (information technology), Best Lawyers in America (technology law and information technology), one of the top 50 women attorneys in Illinois (Leading Lawyers Network 2006, 2007) and on the list of Illinois Super Lawyers (2007).
Notable Engagements:
Counsel to an international food products company in two significant outsourcing transactions with a total value of over $1 billion: one transaction is a major category and transactional procurement outsourcing project; the other involves global infrastructure, cross functional, and network services.
Represented a global communications products manufacturer in a global IT outsourcing transaction valued at $1.7 billion and involving the transfer of employees and assets in more than 40 countries; subsequently retained to negotiate two offshore application development and maintenance deals with two Indian providers; when this client later spun off a significant business division, Rebecca represented the company in separating the existing outsourcing services agreement into two agreements, with a separate service agreement for the spinoff entity.
Represented a leading energy company in one of the first three-tower business process outsourcing transactions to be done: this client outsourced information technology, finance and accounting, and human resources functions to one supplier in a deal valued at roughly $350 million.
Represented a global equipment manufacturer in its analysis, negotiations, and ultimate selection of a global sourcing strategy for its global procurement functions, including Asia, Europe, and North America.
Represented a global data mapping company in two agreements with major Indian offshore providers for data cleansing and application maintenance.
Provided strategic counsel to a global manufacturer of consumer products in global HR transactions outsourcing.
Represented a leading media company and publisher in outsourcing information technology and exploration of outsourcing finance and accounting functions, including a transformative ERP implementation. Represented the same media company in its re-structuring of the IT deal with the same provider in a deal valued at just under $300 million.
Represented the financial division of a diversified Fortune Top 10 company in its evaluation and implementation of an electronic signature and record vaulting system.
Represented a global equipment manufacturer in its provision and licensing of integrated hardware, software, and services solutions to the mining and heavy equipment industries.
Represented a national cellular service company in negotiations of a hardware, software, and services agreement with its key supplier of cellular network and infrastructure materials.
Provided ongoing support to a major quick-serve restaurant company in various information technology, services, and licensing arrangements, including recent re-negotiations with a key supplier of a critical information technology system for its stores, franchisees, and headquarters; also assisted this client with data privacy and transfer compliance issues in its global transactions.
Represented a global provider of telecommunications equipment and services in its information technology and outsourcing transition arrangements relating to divestiture of several of its major North American business units.
Represented a major automaker in structuring a first impression legal opinion to be relied on by the rating agencies and involving the perfection of a security interest in electronic chattel paper.
Represented a start-up company in its efforts to develop and bring to market a document storage and retrieval system for high net worth individuals, and other individual applications.
Provided counsel on web site and privacy and data transfer issues, and electronic signatures, to a global soft drink bottling company, financial services provider, manufacturer of industrial paper products, and global manufacturer of packaging products.
Provided ongoing counsel in information technology matters, including licensing, to a global food products company.
Education:
The University of Michigan Law School, JD, cum laude, 1989; Michigan Journal of Law Reform, The Ohio State University, BA, cum laude, 1984. |
