Helen Anderson

Senior Associate

SNR Denton

United Kingdom

Professional Summary

Helen is a Senior Associate at the international law firm, SNR Denton. After completing her law degree at Oxford University, Helen attended bar school in London and was called to the Bar in England and Wales. She joined Denton Wilde Sapte LLP (now SNR Denton) and after completing two years training, she was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales. Since qualification, she has practised across a wide range of work within the Technology, Media and Telecoms sector. She has regularly advised a wide range of clients, both in the public and private sectors, on technology, outsourcing, privacy and e-commerce issues. She also has extensive experience of advising on intellectual property issues, particularly in relation to the licensing and commercial exploitation of intellectual property. She is also a specialist in media law, advising in particular on the regulation, licensing and distribution on media content on traditonal and new digital platforms. During her time with SNR Denton, she has also undertaken a number of secondments. She spent 10 months at Bank of America, to the UK regulator Ofcom and to Bank of America, acting as sole legal advisor to their procurement team for EMEA and Asia. She has also been on secondment to UK telecoms regulator OFTEL, the Royal Bank of Scotland and international television production company Endemol. In addition to her client work, she has also written articles and spoken at conferences on media, e-commerce and privacy issues. Topics include privacy on social networking sites, tackling online piracy and business models for online content services. She has spoken at the ITechLaw conference, the Connected Home Forum and the Mobile TV World Summit.ExperiencePublic Sector IT/OutsourcingMOD: Advising on the legacy agreements at a naval base in preparation for new strategic agreement in respect of the submarine sector.MOD: Advising on the IT legacy and transition arrangements for sale of the Defence Aviation Repair Agency.Highways Agency: Advising on the post-expiry software licensing arrangements in its traffic control centre agreement.MOD: Advising on the IT aspects of its strategic long-term relationship with BAE in relation to the fixed-wing air sector. MOD: Assisted in our work for the MoD on its ground-breaking Defence Information Infrastructure IT project, which aims to create an MoD-wide infrastructure that will provide the armed forces and the MoD with a flexible integrated computer platform across all the various defence services. AFPAA: Advising on its JPA major change to its outsourcing arrangement for payroll services to accommodate the new single payroll structure for all three armed services. Northern Ireland Civil Service: Assisted on a major IT and business process outsourcing project to modernise HR and payroll functions by making greater use of technology, adopting consistent HR policies and processes across departments and creating centralised HR and payroll function. Particularly responsible for managing the relationship with a key sub-contractor. Advising on contract management issues. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Assisted on a major project to provide integrated radio communications for the fire service.Private Sector IT/Outsourcing/TelecomsCharities Aid Foundation: Advising on purchase and licence of source code and related amendments to software licence and support agreement.National Skills Academy of Hospitality: Advising on service agreement for assessment and processing of qualifications and on licence agreements with teaching establishments.MBNA: Advising on their contractual rights and termination options for a branded credit card arrangement.Total Gas and Power: Advising on its agreement to procure software and related services for distribution network.The Royal Bank of Scotland: Advising on its agreement to procure a trade matching platform for its business in the Far East. HITS Telecom Uganda and their majority shareholder: Advising in relation to a US$ 100 million contract with Alcatel-Lucent to build a turnkey GSM network in Uganda and advising on follow up issues. Kessler Financial Services: Advising on outsourcing and data aspects of an arrangement for the company to set up business as an intermediary between banks, including drafting the documentation and providing data protection advice. ELEXON: Advising on the re-tendering of its payment management agreements for clearing from wholesale electricity trading. Citibank: Advising on the establishment of its pan-European retail utility bill payment network. Northern Rail: Advising on the introduction of automatic ticket barriers at stations. Northern Rail: Advising on their participation in a new pilot smart ticketing scheme. West Coast Trains: Advising on a new hosting and maintenance agreement for their revenue management system and advising on the access to IPR rights and the development of modules from the previous agreement. Eurostar: Advising on the initial stages for the procurement and maintenance of a new driver training simulator. Swaps House: Advising on an interim agreement for IT/data services and related data protection issues. NYMEX Inc.: Advising on the adaptation of its on-line user agreements for its European exchange and advising on the impact on its European operation of its proposed outsourcing of its global on-line trading facilities. Sallie Mae: Advising on the establishment of a new loan business to students in the UK and in particular on its agreements with service providers and credit reference agencies and on data protection issues. Small software supplier: Advising on its software licensing agreement with large US investment bank. Nordea Bank: Advising on the ground-breaking outsourcing of its equity research operation to Standard & Poor's. The Royal Bank of Scotland: Advising on its strategic trade finance outsourcing. Standard Chartered Bank: Advising on its agreement to upgrade its risk management systems. Virgin Trains: Advising on the outsourcing of its main IT systems and on changes to its customer loyalty scheme and the implementation of chip and PIN technology. Trainline: Advising on the outsourcing of its call centre and ticket booking operation. Mergers and AcquisitionsAdvice relates both to due diligence and on warranties/disclosure letters.Home D?cor: Advising on IP and IT aspects of sale of European manufacturing business, including complicated issues on ownership and licensing of IP.Calrec: Advising on the IT, data protection, IP licences and customer contracts for acquisition of a sound recording equipment manufacturer. GTL: Advising on the IT, data protection and IP licences for acquisition of a telecoms handset manufacturer. New Heights: Advising on the IT and data protection aspects of an acquisition of a home furniture business. Rentokil Initial: Advising on the IT and IP aspects of the sale of a business division, including an IP licences and assignments.Data Protection and E-commerceVirgin Management: Advising on agreement with service provider for new digital help service, with emphasis on brand protection and quality of service.Overglowing: Advising new events website and invitations business on website and customer terms and privacy policy.Ciao Surveys: Advising US company on rules for operating an online prize draw in the UK.Virgin Trains: Advising on its participation in a new intra-group customer data project and related data protection issues.Banif Bank: Advising on the data protection requirements for its establishment in the UK and drafting privacy policy and consent wording.Aluminati: Advising small e-mail service provider on customer agreements and reseller agreements to provide branded e-mail services to university alumuni.Amobee: Advising on the data protection provisions in its agreement with Vodafone.International Speedway Corporation: Advising on the rules for gambling and running competitions in respect of an online competition connected to the Deytona speedway event.? Opodo: Advising on the application of the gaming laws and the terms and conditions for an online competition. Premier league football club: Advising on its privacy policy and terms and conditions for its online competitions, including advice relating to the gaming laws. Sindicatum Carbon International: Advising on online access to a equities trading index and related IP ownership/licensing issues. US company: Advising on the data protection aspects of its staff handbook and UK employment contracts and also on transfer of data to the US and elsewhere outside the EEA. GE Capital: Advising on the data protection issues arising from the acquisition of a leasing business. Barclays: Advising on data protection issues arising from its broker arrangements. NYMEX Europe Limited: Advising on the data protection requirements for the transfer of personal data to a service provider in the US. MBNA: Advising on the data protection aspects of its purchase of a credit card portfolio. PalmOne: Advising and co-ordinated advice on multi-jurisdictional data protection registration requirements. Highways Agency: Advising on its responsibilities under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in relation to its DBFO agreements. GAP: Advising on the establishment on an online business in Europe operating out of the UK. Wizz Air: Advising on a hosting and support agreement for its online air travel business and related data protection issues.IP/Branding/MediaMobile Entertainment Forum: Advising on proposed changes to the UK broadcast and non-broadcast advertising codes.Deloitte: Advising on the insolvency of Setanta in relation to sale of EPG slots satellite platform and sale of customer databases.Personal Media Technologies: Advising Russian media company on agreement to develop and implement the platform and network for new personalised IPTV media service.Amobee: Advising on its global framework agreement to provide mobile advertising services to Telefonica O2.The Royal Bank of Scotland: Advising on its agreement with start-up Smarta to sponsor new online business site for small businesses.Elaf: Advising on IP provisions in architect's appointment agreement.Chellomedia: Advising on video on demand services agreement with a foreign broadcaster. Sponsor of a Formula 1 racing team: Advising on an issue relating to its sponsorship rights. Sindicatum Carbon Trading: Advising on the protection of IP rights relating to the development of new industrial technology. Pharmaceutical company: Advising on a settlement agreement and amendments to an R&D agreement and technology and patent agreement. Dubailand: Advising on the development and celebrity endorsement arrangement for a new leisure resort. MBNA: Advising on its new sub-affinity arrangement for branded products. Musion: Advising on a rights issue relating to a Patent, Know-how and Trade Mark Licence Agreement.SecondmentsOffice of Telecommunications (Oftel): Undertook 3 month secondment to Oftel on qualification in 2003. Acting as a policy advisor assisting on the publication of various consultation and policy documents. Drafted consultation documents on guidelines on assessing funds for liabilities. Assisted with the second market review for mobile termination and dealt with issues relating to pay phones. Bank of America: Undertook 10 month secondment in 2005 to Bank of America to act as sole legal advisor supporting their procurement team in EMEA and Asia. Advising on various projects, including outsourcing agreements and ongoing vendor relationships. The work included an agreement for procurement of a major payment processing service from another financial institution, the upgrade and roll out across Europe and Asia of an operating platform and the renegotiation of a software licence and maintenance agreement for a software product facilitating business processes.The Royal Bank of Scotland: Undertook 6 month "virtual" secondment in 2008 to the RBS contracts legal team. While working from the office, she undertook work as part of the in-house legal team, advising on issues such as software procurement, employee benefits, corporate sponsorship and recruitment services agreements.Endemol: Undertook at 3 month part-time secondment to international production company Endemol to assist their growing sports team, advising on production, sponsorship and distribution agreementsArticles and Speaking EngagementsHelen has published a number of articles in trade journals in relation to data protection and e-commerce issues. Recent articles include comments on the proposed changes to child protection on the Internet, video game classification and the privacy issues arising from the Viacom v Google case in the US and from social networking sites.Helen is also an experienced speaker. In recent speaker engagements, Helen has talked about the regulation of mobile content, the challenges to cross-border licensing on audiovisual content in Europe and strategies for combating piracy in the music industry.Employment2010 to date SNR Denton: Senior Associate2003 to 2010 Denton Wilde Sapte: Assistant Lawyer2001 - 2002 Denton Wilde Sapte: Trainee Lawyer2000 - 2001 Slaughter and May: Litigation Information ParalegalOther Professional QualificationsBarsEngland & Wales 1999CourtsEngland & Wales 2003

Skills

Specialization

Media & Technology : Public & Private Sectors, International Law Firm