At the beginning of each year, we survey Morrison & Foerster’s Global Sourcing Group lawyers in Asia, Europe, and the United States regarding the current state of the world’s outsourcing market and emerging trends likely to shape that market over the next twelve months. In this year’s update, our lawyers comment on the impact on the global outsourcing market of the recession in 2009 and the anticipated recovery in 2010, and the rise of cloud computing. We also comment on the key business factors affecting current outsourcing projects and highlight outsourcing-related developments in the key markets across the world.

Our lawyers’ views are based on what they have seen in their outsourcing projects during 2009, as well as on the views expressed by service providers, outsourcing consultants, and clients.