Stuart Blythe | Partner
Baker Botts (UK) LLP

Stuart Blythe is a partner with the global law firm, Baker Botts, based in its London office. He is dual U.S./
English law qualified 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, including as international general counsel for MCI
WorldCom (now Verizon).
Stuart has specific and longstanding experience (over 25 years) in advising communications companies,
content providers and financial institutions on the deployment, acquisition and operation of digital
communications infrastructure, both terrestrial and subsea and in all geographic regions. He actively
supports the telecoms industry as a serving director of the UK Institute of Telecommunications Professionals
(ITP), as legal adviser to the SubOptic trade association and as a trustee of the SubOptic Foundation.