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Kit Burden

Kit Burden

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Global Co-Head of Technology Sector

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Professional Qualifications

  • Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

Recognitions

Kit has been recognized in the Legal 500 Hall of Fame which highlights individuals who have received constant praise by their clients for continued excellence.

Kit is undoubtedly one of the leading lights in the outsourcing market, not just in the UK but globally. He chairs the Society for Computers and Law's Outsourcing Group and is a frequent writer and speaker on outsourcing topics.

Kit was first ranked in Chambers UK’s 2004 directory and has been ranked in every edition since, and for many years now has been in Tier 1 for both IT and Outsourcing matters. Chambers describes him as "a brilliant IT lawyer" with “a grand reputation”, and as “an outsourcing guru”. He has been similarly ranked in Tier 1 by Legal 500.

He has been named as “Technology Lawyer of the Year” in 2018 by Legal Experts.

He is ranked by Chambers UK as a UK-wide Outsourcing “star lawyer” (one of only two such lawyers listed in the “star” category).

Kit has been named in the Global Sourcing Association’s "A-List", which recognises a core group of professionals who have helped shape the wider outsourcing industry (one of only a handful of lawyers listed).

Kit was commended for his work in developing our “ASCENDANT” methodology by the FT Innovative Lawyers report.

Kit was also commended by Global Legal Experts as “Technology Lawyer of the Year” and furthermore by the Global Sourcing Association Awards (with the UK team winning Law Firm of the Year for 2017 and again in 2019).

The Global Sourcing Association named Kit as “Legal Advisor of the Year” in 2018, and separately as their “Strategic Advisor of the Year” in 2019.

Memberships

  • Member of the Computer Law Group
  • Trustee of the Society for Computers & Law
  • Chair of SCL's Special Interest Group on Outsourcing
Kit Burden is a "really excellent" practitioner, with one client saying that "there's very few in the marketplace who could hold a candle to him in terms of his knowledge of outsourcing and IT." He is also considered to be one of "the best strategic thinkers" in dispute situations.
Chambers and Partners UK 2017

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