Stuart Blythe is a partner with the international law firm, Baker Botts. He is dual U.S./English law qualified (having practiced both in London and New York) and advises on a wide range of corporate and commercial transactions in the technology and telecoms sectors. He has significant industry experience, having spent nearly ten years in general counsel roles for telecoms multinationals. Stuart has over 25 years’ experience in transactions involving the construction, acquisition and operation of subsea cable networks having advised on some of the largest systems deployed.
Stuart regularly appears at international conferences and on webinars to speak to issues specific to the subsea cable industry, providing training courses to international companies on agreements relevant to subsea cable deployment, and has participated at the “Legal Masterclass” sessions at the last two SubOptic conferences, and is legal advisor to the SubOptic trade association and a trustee of the SubOptic Foundation.