Technology Enterprises

Branding and Merchandising

Acted for a National Sport Organization with respect to the wholesale reorganization of their branding and merchandising strategies.

Olympic Sponsorship

• Acted for major telecommunications company in their negotiation and sponsorship of the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Winter and Paralympic Games, marking a total sponsorship commitment of over $200 million.
• Drafted and negotiated ancillary sport, cultural and community investment agreements.

Sports Sponsorship

• Drafted and negotiated Athlete Endorsement Agreements
• Drafted and negotiated Bid Documentation and Major Event Contracts for international and domestic sporting events 
• Drafted comprehensive Sponsorship Agreements for a National Sport Organization involving multi-tiered sponsorship levels

CPR Signs Application and Development Support Agreements with Leading Global Outsourcing Firms

On August 2, 2007, Canadian Pacific Railway, announced two separate multi-year agreements with IBM and Infosys Technologies that will focus on the application development associated with management and maintenance of CPR's core operations. These agreements represent a significant corporate outsourcing initiative, which will provide considerable capability and quality enhancement. The outsourcing of the day-to-day mechanics of supporting and developing applications will mean that internal staff will become more of a strategic partner and focus on leveraging technology to provide direction and insights to the future. 

Telus

• Acted for TELUS and for Stentor in connection with the formation and the management of a strategic alliance with MCI.
• Acted for TELUS in connection with the formation and management of the Mobility Canada alliance.
• Acted for TELUS in connection with the formation of the Operations Development Consortium among Canada's incumbent carriers.
• Acquisition of the mobility billing operations of TELUS.

Negotiated Agreements for Various Carriers

Negotiated agreements for various carriers for a wide variety of billing and operations support systems, including agreements with Seibel, MetaSolv, Datap, Daleen, IBM, SAP, AllTel, Saville, Portal, Systematics, AmDocs, Sierra Systems, ADC, Convergys, and Telecordia.

Cell-Loc

Acted for Cell-Loc Inc. in connection with the development of a North American cellular location network, including negotiations with numerous owners of tower companies and building owners.

• Canadian Counsel to a major oil and gas multinational in an international outsourcing transaction with a major service provider.
• Counsel for telecommunications company on the formation and structuring of an outsourcing service provider as a joint venture. Complex transaction with a value in excess of $500M, which included the outsourcing of a mainframe computing environment and transfer of all associated employees.
• Numerous outsourcing and hosting/development agreements with various companies for mainframe, distributed computing and website environments.
• Counsel for a service provider in providing customer billing business process outsourcing services to a utility company.
• Counsel for Calgary Board of Education in the business process outsourcing to a service provider of its human resource management functions.
• Counsel to Regional Health Authorities in developing outsourcing relationships to develop aspects of Alberta’s “electronic health record.”
• Counsel for a provincial Worker’s Compensation Board in outsourcing mainframe and midrange services to a service provider.
• Counsel to a pipeline company in repatriating outsourced services from a service provider.