With over 25 years of experience, Randy is a broadly experienced transactional lawyer known for his ability to creatively and collaboratively solve business problems for clients in a wide range of industries. Randy has negotiated and documented dozens of large-scale, complex commercial and technology transactions worth billions of dollars for multinational companies, including retailers, manufacturers, healthcare providers, insurers, utilities, and consumer products companies. Named among the nation’s leading outsourcing lawyers in Chambers USA and Legal 500 United States, Randy is recognized consistently for his work on information technology, corporate law and mergers and acquisitions. According to Chambers USA, 2016, clients say he “brings a lot of business savvy and experience” and is “that great mix of ‘business’ and ‘legal’ [that] all parties can relate to.”

Randy is chairman of the firm’s executive committee and previously was the co-head of the firm’s Corporate Team, its Retail and Consumer Products Industry Sector Group, and its Global Technology, Outsourcing and Privacy Practice Group. His practice focuses on complex commercial transactions, particularly business process and information technology outsourcing, e-commerce, licensing, systems acquisition, development and integration agreements, manufacturing, supply, distribution, and complex services agreements and multicountry joint ventures.

Randy’s experience also includes public and private securities offerings and corporate disclosure under the 1933 and 1934 Acts, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and a broad range of corporate counseling.

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Education
JD, University of Virginia School of Law, 1988

BA, Chemistry and English Literature, University of Virginia, with distinction, 1985

• Advised participants in complex global joint ventures and product/technology/service development agreements.
• Multiple ITO and ADM outsourcings for global consumer products and services companies, retailers, defense contractors, insurers and healthcare firms.
• Multiple business process outsourcings for leading consumer products, retail and consumer services companies including distribution, fulfillment, HR, fleet, contact center, F&A, web hosting, e-commerce and others.
• Multiple customer contact center transactions in several industries.
• Multi-function outsourcings (including IT, HR, F&A, CRM, facilities, procurement and others) for three Fortune 500 utilities.
• Structured and managed highly-efficient, low-cost delivery teams for large portfolios of routine contracting matters.
• SAP implementations for Fortune 500 utility and auto parts manufacturer.
• ERP implementation for leading consumer services company.
• Renegotiations of significant ITO and HRO transactions.
• Led representations of issuers and underwriters of equity and debt securities with a total value of billions of dollars.
• Advised public and private buyers and sellers in numerous global acquisitions and divestitures, including representations of special committees.

• Past Chairman, Board of Directors and Executive Committee, CenterStage Foundation, 2013-present
• Vice Chair, Board of Directors and Executive Committee, Metropolitan Richmond Sports Backers, 2010-present
• Past North American Board of Directors, Human Resources Outsourcing Association, 2010-2012
• Past Chairman, Business Section Council, Virginia Bar Association 2007-2010
• Past Board of Directors and Executive Committee, Leadership Metro Richmond 2003-2010
• Past Board of Directors, Executive Committee and Chairman, Greater Richmond Chamber Foundation
• Past Board of Directors, Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

• Recognized as a Leader in Business Process Outsourcing, National, Chambers USA, 2004-2017 and Chambers Global, 2009-2018  
• Selected as a Best Lawyer for Information Technology Law, Corporate Law, and Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Best Lawyers in America, 2009-2018 editions. Selected as a Lawyer of the Year for Information Technology (Richmond 2014, 2016, 2018). A description of the selection methodology can be found on Best Lawyers’ webpage. 
• “Leading Lawyer” (Band 1) in Outsourcing, Legal 500 United States, 2010-2017
• Recommended in National Outsourcing, Practical Law Company, Which Lawyer? Yearbook, 2008-2012
• Selected as a Super Lawyer for Technology Transactions, Virginia Super Lawyers magazine, 2006-2018. A description of the selection methodology can be found on Super Lawyers’ webpage.
• Named Lawyer of the Year for Technology, Media and Telecommunications in Virginia by Corporate Livewire, 2014 and 2015

• Lawyering Cashierless Technologies

  By Randall Parks |October 2018

• Outsourcing Governance and Program Management: an Evolution in Best Practices for Managing Outsourcing Transactions, Aspatore Books
• Choosing a Virginia Business Entity, Virginia CLE (3rd ed. 2009)
• Outsourcing: USA, Chambers Global Practice Guide
• Outsourcing: USA, Chambers Global Practice Guide
• Outsourcing: USA, Chambers Global Practice Guide
• Cloud Computing: What to Ask When the Clouds Roll In, presentation to the ACC Information Technology & Ecommerce Committee
• Digital Call Records: The Impact of India’s Revised Guidelines for Other Service Providers on Outsourcing Customers and Providers, CPO Magazine
• A Look At Economic Cost Adjustments Amid Global Inflation, Law360
• What Outsourcer Satyam's Ownership Change Means to Customers, CIO
• Outsourcing: USA, Chambers Global Practice Guide
• Technology & Outsourcing: Introduction, Chambers Global Practice Guide
• Technology & Outsourcing: USA and Trends and Developments, Chambers Global Practice Guide