Drafting IT Master Services Agreements: Guidance for Purchaser and Vendor Counsel

Mr. Heaphy chairs the firm’s Outsourcing and Technology Practice Group and Co-chairs its India practice, where he leads a broad-based, supplier-focused team of experienced professionals representing a diverse group of global providers of technology and services related to outsourcing, software, robotics, and the cloud.

Mr. Peterson leads the firm’s Technology Transactions Practice. He has focused his practice for 20 years on helping companies work better with their technology and operations supplies. Mr. Peterson has represented customers in dozens of large outsourcing agreements with, cumulatively, over $10 billion in contract value. He has represented clients in all major types of outsourcing transactions and has negotiated opposite all of the first-tier and most of the second-tier providers. Mr. Peterson is a frequent speaker and writer on outsourcing topics, among others.

Mr. Schultis focuses on IP transactions, and has substantial experience representing both technology consumers and vendors and a wide variety of service providers. He represents large customers in outsourcing arrangements including one of the world's largest financial institutions, a big four accounting firm, major health care providers and utilities. Prior to founding his firm, he spent a decade as a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, focusing on IP transactions.