Helen Stanwell-Smith
Senior Legal Counsel, Orange Group
Helen is Senior Legal Counsel at Orange Group, the global telecommunications group. She has been a senior lawyer in the Group Brand Legal Affairs team since 2006 advising the international business on IP licensing and brand protection issues. For the past 3 years she has led the brand portfolio and enforcement team, responsible for managing the Orange brand global trade mark portfolio and for global brand enforcement strategy. She also manages brand licensing matters for the global B2B division of the Orange Group which operates in 160 territories worldwide.
Prior to joining Orange, Helen was a lawyer in the BBC litigation department, advising the BBC on intellectual property and media issues. She qualified into the Media and IP Litigation team at Richards Butler LLP (now Reed Smith LLP) and later joined the Commercial Litigation team at Nabarro LLP before embarking on an in-house career.