Phillip Rees
Position
Partner, Head of Commercial Team
Services
Areas of expertise
- Outsourcing
- International procurement
- Commercial transactions
- PPP/Joint Venture projects
- ICT and Intellectual Property
- Telecommunications
- Financial markets regulatory
Profile
Philip is a Partner and the Head of Commercial
at Hugh James. He specialises in international procurement
and complex outsourcing transactions. Phillip has over 25
years of experience as a partner in national and international
private practice and as a senior in-house lawyer. Since
1991, Phillip has been consistently listed in The Chambers Guide to
the Legal Profession, The Legal 500 and other top directories as a
leader in the field for his commercial/procurement and regulatory
work.
Currently Philip is advising a leading global
financial institution on contract structuring for single European
Payment Area and Payment Services Directive compliance and related
outsourcing arrangements. Philip has advised a number of
global financial institutions including Wells Fargo / Wachovia on
outsourcing, Regulatory (Payment Systems / Market Data / Privacy)
and IPIT issues.
Other significant projects include:
- Advised and currently advising Citigroup on a range of
outsourcing/ procurement matters including outsourcing arrangements
for Facilities Management of Citigroup Centre, electrical and
maintenance services and Data Centre managed services
- Advised London Underground on procurement and contract drafting
of complex high-value PPP contracts in the areas of capital build
and long-term maintenance assets (project values in excess of £3
billion)
- Advised London Underground on commercial contract provisions
relating to Kings Cross redevelopment project (project value £400
million)
- Advised London Development Agency on procurement strategies to
be adopted for key infrastructure projects in connection with the
Olympic development
- Advised Resolution plc on its multi-billion pound outsourcing
programme for its insurance administration functions to India with
Capita
- Advised Police IT Organisation PITO on infrastructure contracts
and PPP arrangements for provision of a new UK emergency mobile
radio network
- Advised Tube Lines on major ICT communications/IT
infrastructure contractual arrangements
- Advising Cardiff Council on the procurement of a IT strategic
partner to assist the Council’s transformational change
program
- Advising Finance Wales on a range of FSMA regulatory issues
relating to structuring, operational and compliance issues in
relation to structural funds and private fund management
- Advised Schmallbach Lubecca on its global outsourcing of
IT functions to IBM including associated implementation of global
privacy policy
Professional career
Trained: Peter Carter Ruck & Partners
Qualified: 1984
Partner in present firm: 2007
Head of Legal, Operations and Technology EMEA
Citigroup
Partner, McDermot Will & Emery
Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.
Education
Ysgol Mynydd Cynffig
University of East
Anglia
BA(Hons)
Personal interests
GRRC, Cowdray Park Polo International Overseas
Club
Contact
Phillip
Rees
Partner, Head of Commercial Team
E phillip.rees@hughjames.com
T 0207 038 8303