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Has a wealth of knowledge and experience; he is tenacious but also reasonable in his negotiations.
Benjamin Dean is a Pillsbury Global Sourcing & Technology Transactions partner recognized by Chambers USA and The Legal 500 U.S. as a leading authority on sophisticated technology and sourcing transactions.
Benjamin has 20 years experience advising on, structuring and negotiating global technology-related agreements for clients in diverse industries. He handles software licensing, development and implementation transactions; cloud and SaaS arrangements; on-premise and cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) agreements; IT and BPO outsourcing transactions; IT consulting arrangements; internet, eCommerce and apps-based agreements; and hardware and software leasing and procurement. Benjamin also advises clients who are experiencing performance disputes with their IT and consulting providers.
Representative Experience
- Negotiated a global telecommunications and network outsourcing agreement for a multinational food and beverage company.
- Represented a leading American television and media company in negotiating a series of enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation and licensing agreements.
- Negotiated a letter of credit outsourcing agreement for a leading provider of worldwide financial services.
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- Negotiated an outsourcing agreement to consolidate a global financial planning company’s various technology help desks into a single ITIL-compliant service desk.
- Guided outsourcing of world-leading information corporation’s data center/data processing services and implementation of a strategic marketing agreement, to promote its provision of customer data integration services to its customers.
- Negotiated a global agreement for the provision of data processing services and consumer information for a division of a diversified technology, media and financial services company.
- Negotiated a data center, applications development and offshore outsourcing arrangement with IBM for a major U.S. insurance claims processing company.
- Guided the outsourcing of health care insurance company’s data center, help desk, applications development and maintenance, desktop support and maintenance, and telecommunications functions to Dell Services.
- Negotiated a software licensing and data center, help desk, applications development and maintenance, and telecommunications outsourcing with IBM for a health care insurance company.
- Guided outsourcing of a nonprofit education testing company’s worldwide Information Technology infrastructure, along with re-architecture of the company’s core business systems.
Professional Highlights
- Named an Acritas Star in Acritas (part of the Thompson Reuters) annual General Counsel Survey (2021).
- Recognized by Chambers USA in Technology & Outsourcing (2017 – 2024) and by The Legal 500 U.S. for Technology: Outsourcing (2010, 2014 – 2016, 2018).
- Serves as vice chair of Pillsbury’s Pro Bono Committee. Advises and supports Pillsbury attorneys in identifying and taking on new pro bono matters in the community.
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- Speaks on a variety of outsourcing and technology topics, including cloud services, data breaches, eCommerce and technology liability risk, software-as-a-service and e-signature programs.
- Associations
- District of Columbia Bar Association
- Maryland Bar Association
Education
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J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 1997
A.B., Dartmouth College, 1994
magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Admissions
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District of Columbia
Maryland
Clerkships
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Law clerk to Judge Donald E. Walter, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana