Kathryn Dooks

Partner, Deloitte

Kathryn advises on all aspects of employment and business immigration law including providing strategic and day-to-day HR advice, conducting litigation, drafting and enforcing restrictive covenants, advising on executive hires and terminations, outsourcings and M&A activity, TUPE, discrimination and whistleblowing issues and drafting contracts and policies. Kathryn has a particular focus on social media and employment and has given training and written articles on this, as well as a number of other topics. Kathryn has worked with clients across a range of sectors including traditional and digital marketing, media, e-commerce, software and financial services. Kathryn graduated with a degree in Law from Cambridge University in 2001. Kathryn worked at international law firm Clifford Chance for five years, before moving to Kemp Little in March 2008. Kathryn is a member of the HR steering committee of the National Outsourcing Association.

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International outsourcing

Practice Notes

This Practice Note considers issues arising in multi-jurisdictional outsourcing arrangements, including offshore and nearshore transactions. Outsourced service provision is an established business strategy in most developed economies of the world and is increasing its prevalence in developing countries. This Practice Note considers a number of key issues specific to multinational or offshore outsourcing arrangements including the types of structure used in international outsourcing agreements, choice of law, employment, data protection and a number of other relevant issues.

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