Washington, DC (Primary), San Francisco
Biography
Professional experience
Education
Cases
Biography
Scott Stevenson advises companies across a range of industries on outsourcing, technology, and other complex commercial transactions that support their core business operations. His clients include financial services institutions and companies in health care, retail, media, and transportation. His work includes information technology and business process outsourcing—including complex multi-provider arrangements and onshore, nearshore, and offshore delivery models—as well as strategic procurement and enterprise technology platform transactions. A core part of Scott’s practice has been guiding clients through major shifts in enterprise technology, from early SaaS and cloud adoption to blockchain platforms and, more recently, AI-enabled services.
Scott advises clients throughout the transaction life cycle, from initial structuring and negotiation through implementation, renewal, and exit. His work includes restructuring existing arrangements, redesigning service delivery models, and managing transitions between service providers. He works closely with clients’ legal and business teams to develop practical agreements that provide effective governance and the flexibility to adapt as business needs and technologies evolve. He represents customers as well as technology and service providers, bringing an understanding of the commercial and operational considerations on both sides of these relationships.
Scott has particular depth in financial services, advising investment management firms, banks, and other regulated institutions. His experience in the sector spans information technology and business process outsourcing, trading and risk management platforms, transfer agent services, and retirement recordkeeping and administration.
Professional experience
- Morrison Foerster LLP
- Alston & Bird LLP
- Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP
Education
- Duke University School of Law, J.D., 1992
- Stanford University, B.A., 1987
Cases
Representative engagements in which Scott has served as lead outside counsel include:
Outsourcing & Managed Services
- Global IT & BPO Outsourcing and Provider Transitions. Representing a global investment management firm in successive generations of long-term IT and business process outsourcing arrangements involving multiple providers, including renegotiations, exits, and transitions to replacement service providers.
- Network & Security Modernization (Provider-Side). Representing a network and security services provider in negotiating an agreement to modernize a global transportation company’s network and security environment.
Platform & Technology Agreements
- Trading Platform Restructuring. Representing a global financial services institution in restructuring and renegotiating an existing agreement supporting its investment management and trading platform.
- Investment & Risk Management Platform. Representing a global investment management firm in negotiating a new platform agreement covering investment management and risk management capabilities.
- Retirement Recordkeeping & Administration. Representing a global investment management firm in structuring and negotiating an agreement for a retirement recordkeeping and administration platform supporting tax-advantaged retirement arrangements.
- Blockchain Platform for Market Infrastructure (Provider-Side). Representing an enterprise virtualization and cloud-infrastructure software company in negotiating an agreement to provide a blockchain platform to a financial market infrastructure operator.
Strategic Alliances & Enterprise Services
- Health Care Technology Alliance. Representing a national retail health care company in structuring a cloud services transaction and strategic alliance involving technology-enabled health care products.
- Multi-Sourced Enterprise Technology Services. Representing a global media company in structuring and negotiating enterprise cloud computing transactions involving a multi-sourced solution.
