Legal Process Outsourcing

Why LPO

Enterprise-grade contract management for all businesses.

Most organizations lack the dedicated technology and internal resources to manage contracts effectively at scale. Key dates slip past unnoticed, obligations go untracked, and legal teams spend more time searching for documents than negotiating them. The result is avoidable risk and lost value sitting inside agreements no one has time to fully manage.

PREMIKATI closes that gap by leveraging SAP Ariba Contract Management Professional™, giving your organization a centralized, digital system of record for every contract, backed by a team of practitioners who know how to use it. You get enterprise-grade capability without the cost or timeline of building a legal operations function from scratch.

The result is a contracting process that runs on structured data instead of paper. Creation, execution, and ongoing management all move through one digital workflow, removing the ink, the filing cabinets, and the guesswork, and replacing them with visibility your legal, procurement, and finance teams can actually rely on.

Core services

What do you get with Premikati's Legal Process Outsourcing?

Abstractions

We extract key dates, clauses, obligations, and options from your contracts and convert them into structured, searchable data, gathering paper or electronic agreements on-site as needed.

Contract Drafting, Negotiations and Training

Our team works alongside your legal and procurement staff to draft agreements and negotiate directly with suppliers through to completion, training your team along the way.

Mergers and Acquisitions

We analyze procurement contracts across entities in an M&A transaction, build a matrix summary by commodity and service, and flag weak contracts for renegotiation before close.

Contract Management Function

We design and implement a tailored contract management function for your organization, then operate it on an interim or permanent basis so contracts stay governed after signature.

Frequently asked

Answers from the conversations legal and procurement leaders are already having.

What is legal process outsourcing and what does PREMIKATI's LPO service cover?+

Legal process outsourcing is the delegation of contract-related legal and administrative work to a specialized external team. PREMIKATI's LPO service covers contract abstraction, drafting, negotiation and training, M&A contract analysis, and full contract management function support, so your organization gains enterprise-grade contract capability without building it in-house.

What technology does PREMIKATI use to deliver LPO services?+

PREMIKATI delivers LPO services on SAP Ariba Contract Management Professional, giving clients a centralized, digital repository and workflow engine that removes paper and ink from contract creation, execution, and ongoing management.

What is contract abstraction and when does an organization need it?+

Contract abstraction is the process of extracting key dates, clauses, obligations, and options from a contract and converting them into structured, searchable data. Organizations need it when contracts exist as scattered paper or unstructured files and leadership lacks visibility into renewal dates, risk exposure, or commercial terms across the portfolio.

Does PREMIKATI replace our legal team or work alongside them?+

PREMIKATI works alongside your legal and procurement teams rather than replacing them. Our specialists handle the volume work of drafting, abstraction, and administration, while your internal team retains decision authority on risk, strategy, and final approval.

How does PREMIKATI's procurement background strengthen its contract negotiation capability?+

PREMIKATI's team is built on decades of direct procurement and sourcing experience, not just legal drafting. That background means our negotiators understand supplier dynamics, pricing structures, and commercial leverage, and can carry a negotiation through to completion with outcomes that hold up operationally as well as legally.

How does PREMIKATI support contract management during a merger or acquisition?+

During M&A, PREMIKATI analyzes the procurement contract portfolios of the entities involved, builds a matrix summary organized by commodity and service, and flags weak, expiring, or high-risk contracts for renegotiation ahead of close, giving deal teams a clear view of contractual exposure and opportunity.

What happens after contracts are executed? Does PREMIKATI help manage ongoing compliance?+

Yes. PREMIKATI's contract management function tracks obligations, renewal dates, and compliance requirements after execution, operating on an interim or permanent basis so nothing falls through the cracks once the ink is dry.

What size organizations does PREMIKATI's LPO service serve?+

PREMIKATI's LPO service is designed to scale from mid-market businesses to large enterprises, with engagement scope and staffing adjusted to the size of the contract portfolio and the complexity of the organization's procurement and legal operations.

How is a LPO engagement scoped and priced?+

Every LPO engagement starts with a scoping conversation to understand contract volume, current tools, and priority pain points. From there, PREMIKATI proposes a model, project-based, retained, or embedded, sized to the work and priced accordingly. There is no one-size-fits-all package.

How does LPO relate to PREMIKATI's other services, and can it be combined with them?+

LPO is designed to work alongside PREMIKATI's SAP Ariba, CLM, and Application Managed Services offerings. Many clients pair LPO with a CLM Health Check or an Ariba Contracts implementation so the technology and the people running it are aligned from day one.

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