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Kenneth
A.
Adler
Partner
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Chair, Technology and Outsourcing Practice Group
Kenneth Adler specializes in complex global and domestic outsourcing and technology transactions. With over 20 years of experience, his practice includes drafting and negotiating all types of outsourcing and technology agreements, including business process and information technology outsourcings. He has significant experience addressing the creation of, and strategies relating to, multi-sourced environments, as well as renegotiation and termination of existing outsourcing agreements.
Mr. Adler regularly assists clients with respect to outsourcing strategies, including to near-shore and off-shore destinations, and emerging outsourcing locales. His practice also includes advising clients on data security and privacy matters, and all facets of technology transactions and sourcing, including with respect to e-commerce, information technology, emerging technologies, telecommunications and computer law, and on related intellectual property, privacy and data security issues. Mr. Adler is on the Editorial Board of the Advanced Media and Technology Law Blog.
Mr. Adler represents financial institutions, insurance companies, accounting firms, healthcare companies and technology companies in large-scale, complex outsourcing and technology sourcing, licensing and system development and integration agreements. He has completed numerous BPO and ITO transactions for major financial services, healthcare and insurance entities, including outsourcings related to infrastructure (including data center, desktop, help-desk, telecommunications and networks), applications development and maintenance, call center, hosting, co-location, claims processing, securities and banking back-office functions, human resources, finance and accounting, logistics, real estate and facilities management.
Prior Work Experience
Prior to joining Loeb & Loeb LLP, Mr. Adler was the Chair of the Outsourcing Group at Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP.
Publications/Speeches
- Speaker, ACI 25th National Advanced Forum on Advertising Law (January 23-24, 2012)
- Speaker, Outsourcing in Financial Services (November 1, 2011)
- Co-author, Getting Smart About Sourcing for Cloud: How Cloud Computing is Impacting Business and how Enterprises Should Plan and Source for it, HfS Research Ltd. (September 2011)
- Speaker, AMEC: The Legal Implications of Emerging Technologies and Outsourcing in the Media and Entertainment Industry: A Reality Check (July 21, 2011)
- Speaker, AMEC: The Legal Implications of Emerging Technologies and Outsourcing in the Media and Entertainment Industry: A Reality Check, Los Angeles, California (June 28, 2011)
- Speaker, FSO Knowledge Xchange 5th Annual Financial Services Industry Transformation and Outsourcing Strategies Summit, New York, New York (June 9, 2011)
- Speaker, SIG 2011 Global Sourcing Summit, Amelia Island, Florida (March 15-17, 2011)
- Speaker, Outsourcing in Financial Services Program, New York, New York (October 19, 2010)
Media Mentions
Affiliations
- Member, LISTNet (Long Island Software and Technology Network)
- Member, New York State Bar Association
- Member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York
Distinctions
- Named in Who's Who Legal International: Internet, E-Commerce and Data Protection, published by Law Business Research Limited (2009-2010)
- Named "Best Lawyer" in Technology Law, The Best Lawyers in America, published by Woodward White, Inc. (2011 and 2012 editions)
- Executive Advisory Committee, Cloud Computing Chapter of IAOP
- Named in PLC Which Lawyer?, as Recommended in Outsourcing (2009-2010 editions)
- Named in The Legal 500 in Outsourcing, published by Legalease Limited and John Pritchard (2010 edition)
- Named in PLC Which Lawyer?, as Recommended in Information Technology (2009)
- Named in "Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business," in National Outsourcing, (2007-2011 editions)
- Named in "Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business," in New York Technology & IT Outsourcing, (2007-2011 editions)
- Named in "Chambers Global, The World's Leading Lawyers for Business" in United States of America Outsourcing (2010 and 2011 editions)
- Named "New York Super Lawyer" in Information Technology/Outsourcing and Intellectual Property by Thomson Reuters (2006-2011)
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George Washington University Law School, J.D., 1986
Union College, B.S., 1983, cum laude
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
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