Legal Insights

This episode of the contracts podcast focuses on business process outsourcing (BPO) where host Lizzie Elston is joined by Deloitte's Amiya Kagalwala, GBS and BPO leader for the UK, and Deloitte Legal's Louis Wihl, a commercial contracts and technology lawyer who drafts and negotiates business process outsourcing and other agreements for a wide range of Deloitte clients. Lizzie, Amiya and Louis explore what BPO is, why companies choose to outsource and the complexities that surround the negotiation process, as well as challenges, key success factors and what the future might look like.

Deloitte Legal UK partner, Peggy Pauwels explores the concept of a Contractpreneur - a transformer who reimages how things are done along the contract lifecycle, thereby unlocking commercial value and driving real, sustainable and profitable growth. In this episode, Peggy is joined by Tim Cummins, Executive Director at the Commerce & Contract Management Institute and President at World Commerce & Contracting. Peggy and Tim delve into the core fundamentals of contracting to talk about the purpose of contracts.

Peggy Pauwels is joined by fellow entrepreneur Filippo Galluccio. Filippo shares his insights around how he and his team at Vodafone have been spearheading contract design innovation for their business and their clients.

Peggy Pauwels explores the concept of a Contractpreneur - a transformer who reimages how things are done along the contract lifecycle, thereby unlocking commercial value and driving real, sustainable and profitable growth. In this episode, Peggy descents into the trenches of contract management to bring to life through real life experiences what the delivery of contract managed services entails and how it can be a real enabler to deliver and unlock value from your contracts.

Adam Carruthers, pensions law Director, and Marian Bloodworth, employment law Partner, discuss recent and upcoming pensions law changes which we believe have the potential to have a significant impact for employers and HR and People teams. Over the course of the podcast, we will provide an overview of key considerations connected to the expected upcoming extension of the UK's automatic enrolment regime, as well as exploring developments which have the potential to increase the scope for employers with legacy defined benefit pension arrangements to benefit from a return of surplus funds.