Shell set to open offshore legal centre
Oil giant appoints project team to investigate possible locations and report back with a brief by autumn
May 31, 2016 at 09:48 AM
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Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell is preparing to open an offshore legal centre to service its global operations.
A project team is currently charged with investigating possible locations and working out headcount numbers for the centre.
The team, which reports to Shell's legal director Donny Ching, will come back with a brief by this autumn.
The centre will include a mixture of non-qualified and qualified lawyers, who will do high-end work as well as back-office work. The key criteria for a potential location will be whether Shell can recruit high quality staff there.
Shell's legal team has previously sent specific parts of its work to dedicated centres in cheaper locations. It has a due diligence team in Glasgow and a patent search team in Bangalore.
The wider company also has several offshore business centres in locations including Krakow, Glasgow, South Africa, Manila, Bangalore and Malaysia.
The news comes after Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) and Dentons announced last week that they were due to open offshore centres in Manila and Poland, respectively.
NRF's Manila centre is set to open in September to handle marketing, business development, HR, document production, IT, finance, compliance and knowledge management work. Some 170 roles globally will be affected, equating to roughly 5% of the firm's global support services jobs.
Meanwhile, Dentons is set to cut approximately 50 roles in the UK for its business services centre in Warsaw, which will be known as Dentons Business Services EMEA. The firm expects to have between 90 and 100 staff at the centre by the end of this year.
DLA Piper is also in the process of moving up to 200 support service jobs to Warsaw.
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