ABOUT USBeyond the Contract.
Built for Transformation.
Transformation Legal Group helps organizations navigate complex, technology-driven business transformations through an integrated approach to contracting, negotiation, and governance.
As AI, managed services, ERP, and emerging technologies reshape how organizations operate, success requires more than technology or contractual terms alone. It depends on understanding business objectives, aligning partners, and creating agreements and governance structures that support change over time.
We help organizations bring these elements together from deal formation through contracting and ongoing relationship management. By aligning business goals, commercial arrangements, and operational practices, we build the foundation for partnerships that adapt, solve problems, and continue creating value as circumstances evolve.
We recognize that transformation is an ongoing process, not a one-time event. Our approach helps ensure that the relationships and structures established at the outset continue to support success long after an agreement is signed.
A Broader Approach to Transformation
Our work extends beyond the legal aspects of complex transactions. Through Transformation Enablement, we take a human-centered approach to helping organizations navigate complexity, strengthen collaboration, and achieve meaningful business outcomes.
Complementing our legal and transactional expertise, Transformation Enablement focuses on the relationships, negotiation strategies, and collaborative processes that drive successful transformation. We recognize that lasting success depends not only on strong agreements, but also on the people and partnerships behind them.
Together, Transformation Legal Group and Transformation Enablement provide thoughtful guidance and practical solutions for stronger outcomes.
Meet Our Team
Our team brings deep experience in complex transactions, strategic negotiations, and business transformation. Through their work with Transformation Legal Group and Transformation Enablement, they help clients navigate critical decisions, foster productive partnerships, and move complex initiatives forward.
Ed Hansen | Co-Founder & Partner
Ed Hansen is one of the most experienced transformation and outsourcing advisors in the country, with more than 30 years of experience in complex ITO, BPO, and digital transformation engagements. He founded Transformation Enablement LLC and Transformation Legal Group, PLLC to offer a different approach to transformation — one that treats it first as a human endeavor and then as a commercial and legal transaction.
His practice centers on the Transformation Enablement methodology, guiding clients from sourcing strategy through vendor selection, deal structuring, negotiation, and ongoing governance. His #NegotiatingForHumans framework has reshaped how clients and providers approach outsourcing negotiations, emphasizing durable, relationship-based commercial structures over positional bargaining.
Over his career, Ed has advised on major outsourcing and transformation transactions across industries including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and consumer packaged goods. His clients range from Fortune 500 companies to mid-market organizations undertaking their first large sourcing initiatives.
Ed is recognized by Chambers USA, Chambers Global, and Best Lawyers in America and serves clients nationally and internationally.
Valerie Paverd | Co-Founder & Partner
Valerie Paverd is a seasoned transactional attorney and former law firm Partner with more than 20 years of experience advising clients on complex outsourcing, technology, and digital transformation programs. Earlier in her career, she also advised on M&A, private equity, and finance matters. Val co-founded Transformation Enablement and Transformation Legal Group to create a boutique legal practice purpose-built for transformation work within an integrated consulting and legal delivery model.
Her practice spans transformational outsourcing and technology agreements, including ITO and BPO contracts, cloud and SaaS arrangements, data and AI governance frameworks, and the governance structures that determine whether transformation programs succeed. With more than a decade focused specifically on transformation initiatives, Val brings both legal depth and a strong understanding of the operational and commercial dynamics behind these deals.
A former Partner at major international and national law firms, Val combines the rigor of sophisticated transactional practice with a delivery model that prioritizes alignment, relationship health, and transformation outcomes alongside contractual protections.
Val is ranked by Chambers USA (New York) in the outsourcing and technology transactions space. She is based in New York and works with clients across the United States and globally.
