LegalBase among 'Best 10'

LegalBase was recently acknowledged by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) as one of the "Best 10" companies offering legal outsourcing services in the IAOP's Global Outsourcing 100TM Report. LegalBase was particularly commended by the IAOP for their employee management and executive leadership.

This is a tremendous achievement for such a young company and it showcases Sri Lanka as a frontrunner as a provider of legal outsourcing services.

LegalBase Director and Co-founder, Sudath Perera is quoted as saying "we are very pleased with the firm's ranking and are looking forward to further developing the business and growing the firm in order to continue to move up the rankings in the future. This is not only a great achievement for our firm but also the Sri Lankan outsourcing industry as it clearly puts Sri Lanka on the map as a top rate destination for legal outsourcing services.".

LegalBase began operations in January 2008 because its founders recognised the potential Sri Lanka has to be a real contender in the Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) industry. LegalBase operates under the leadership of its co-founders Sudath Perera and Ali Tyebkhan. Sudath, a prominent Sri Lankan lawyer, is the founder and senior partner of Sudath Perera Associates who teamed up with Ali Tyebkhan, an English solicitor who worked previously as a lawyer in London and Brussels for leading international law firm Lovells and Dubai for the Emirates National Oil Company.

LegalBase is a pioneer of value added LPO services and it is the first provider of niche offshore legal services in Sri Lanka and since its inception it has made tremendous strides into the outsourcing market. The company provides foreign law services primarily to clients in the U.K, Europe and North America with the objective of extending their services further into the Australian and Asian markets.

Co-founder and Director of LegalBase, Ali Tyebkhan, says "A real opportunity exists in providing higher value legal work to law firms and corporations. In order to do this it is necessary to match work produced by in-house teams and law firms onshore...It is more about being an offshore law firm rather than an outsourcing factory.".

The legal system and the pool of talented lawyers available in Sri Lanka make it an ideal location from which to offer legal outsourcing services and LegalBase has spearheaded Sri Lanka's foray into the provision of complex and value-added legal services.

Ali Tyebkhan commented, "I believe my international experience has enabled and encouraged me to organise LegalBase in a manner similar to other international law firms, thereby making LegalBase an extremely competitive provider of legal outsourcing services".

In fact in July 2008, "Asian Counsel", a leading Asian publication for lawyers, predicted that through LegalBase's operations "Sri Lanka is set to challenge India for a piece of the legal outsourcing action".

The IAOP accreditation serves as validation that a Sri Lankan based LPO can achieve international success.

The IAOP is an association of outsourcing professionals and its global membership works collaboratively to collect, analyse and publicise information significant to outsourcing professionals.