DLA Piper was awarded Adviser of the Year at the inaugural European Outsourcing Association (EOA) Awards, set up to reward best practice in pan-European outsourcing.

The DLA Piper’s European team regularly undertakes project work spanning international borders. Examples of recent cross-border deals include: COLT (in Belgium on a major data centre outsource project), UCB Pharmaceuticals (on both ITO and BPO projects), National Bank of Greece (on its card processing outsource deal), the National Bank of Georgia, and for HCL Technologies (in respect of major outsourcing projects in the UK, Scandinavia and continental Europe).

Other major clients the law firm has worked with on outsourcing projects include UBS, Lloyds Banking Group, RBS, Tesco Personal Finance, Investec, Accenture, Cognizant, Sodexo, Verizon and the Department of Work and Pensions.

DLA Piper’s public sector focused team is dominant in the UK and is the predominant advisor to Government departments which account for over a third of the total public sector spend on IT/outsourcing (including NHS Connecting for Health, DWP, Ofsted, PADA, King's College Hospital, the Northern Ireland Department of Health and related bodies, the British Council, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, WCA, the Pensions Regulator, and the OGC itself).

The ceremony was held at the 2010 EOA Summit in Brussels, an event that brings together the world’s leading outsourcing suppliers, end users and support service providers for a two-day conference focusing on the latest innovations, trends and developments in outsourcing.