A very competent lawyer, excellent negotiator and real pleasure to work with, Lee's advice was always very prompt and accurate. His understanding of the business has been of great value.
—Counsel, Global Financial Services Company

Pillsbury Global Sourcing & Technology Transactions partner Lee Rubin has over 15 years of experience advising on a range of commercial transactions, primarily technology and complex outsourcing arrangements.

Lee regularly advises on high-value sourcing deals, providing strategic and practical advice to guide clients through the structuring and negotiating of their critical technology-related contracts. Lee’s experience covers application development/maintenance outsourcing, systems integration, SaaS/cloud and software licensing transactions, and he works closely with clients in the financial services sector, including having spent time on secondment to a major international bank working on its regulated outsourcing arrangements. Lee also has extensive experience advising on M&A-related transition services arrangements.

Representative Experience

  • Represented a systemically important (too big to fail) financial institution on the outsourcing of its mainframe operations.
  • Represented one of the world’s largest providers of financial asset management services to institutional investors on a series of innovative transactions for the adoption of blockchain and digital currency solutions.
  • Represented a global leader in AI-based video analytics, IoT technologies and cybersecurity in the strategy and execution of delivering a smart security convergence solution to the government of Egypt.

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  • Represented AT&T on transition services arrangements as part of the $1.175 billion sale of its Crunchyroll anime business to Funimation Global Group, LLC.
  • Represented an independent merchant banking group on the outsourcing of the group’s testing and QA function to a global BPO and software development company.
  • Advised a global online luxury clothing retail platform on the outsourcing of all its HR systems.
  • Represented a leading global BPO provider on its tender to a Japanese bank for the monetization of several bank assets.
  • Represented a specialist financial services group on the procurement of a group-wide unified communications solution.
  • Represented a high-speed railway service provider on the outsourcing of its IT implementation and support functions.

Professional Highlights

  • The Legal 500 UK, recognised for TMT (2024, 2023)

Associations

  • Society for Computers & Law

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Firm Publications

  • The Impact of AI Foundation Models on Competition, Consumers and Regulation: A View from the UK’s CMA, Blog Post 11/29/2023
  • Drafting Limitation of Liability Clauses: Practical Tips from the UK High Court, Blog Post 11/02/2023
  • Upcoming EU Rules on Digital Operational Resilience, Authors: Steven Farmer, Lee Rubin, Mark Booth, Johanna Lipponen, 07/19/2023
  • Enforceability of Penalties for Late Delivery in the UK: UK Supreme Court Confirms the Law of Liquidated Damages, Blog Post 07/01/22
  • UK Financial Regulators to Have Direct Oversight of Critical Third Parties, Authors: Lee Rubin, Mark Booth, 06/30/2022
  • European Businesses Offering Payment Services Told How to Manage Operational and Security Risks, Authors: Lee Rubin, Tim Wright, 01/29/2018
  • Cloud Computing by EU Financial Institutions Gets a New Rule Book, Authors: Lee Rubin, Tim Wright, 01/23/2018

Education

  • Legal Practice Course, The College of Law, London, 2008

    LL.B., University of Birmingham, 2007

    B. Comm., University of Birmingham, 2004

Admissions

  • England and Wales