Helena Brown > Addleshaw Goddard > Edinburgh, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
Addleshaw Goddard Offices
EXCHANGE TOWER
19 CANNING STREET
EDINBURGH
EH3 8EH
United Kingdom
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Helena Brown
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Helena is an IP, IT and commercial expert with over 15 years’ experience advising on a range of legal areas such as high profile technology sector investments and acquisitions, high profile public bodies and charities and on strategic data protection issues and more. Helena is also a fully accredited Practitioner in Data Protection, and also has extensive experience in providing support on complex freedom of information matters. Helena supports and advises on international data transfers, service offshoring and subject access requests.
Career
McGrigors LLP; Senior Solicitor, Burness LLP; Associate, Burness Paull LLP; Director, Partner HBJ Gateley 2015 to date.
Memberships
Scottish Life Sciences Association, Society for computers and Law, Centre for Freedom Information
Education
Glasgow University (1999 LLB Hons, Dip LP)
Lawyer Rankings
Scotland > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
(Leading partners)Scotland > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
(Leading partners)Based in Edinburgh, Addleshaw Goddard routinely advises a range of sporting clubs, governing bodies, and individual athletes on complex regulatory requirements and data protection insurance. The practice is especially experienced in the football sector, frequently handling contractual disputes and unpaid sponsorship issues. Simon Catto and Helena Brown co-head the team; Catto primarily focuses on contentious matters within the athletics, rugby, and rowing arenas, while Brown stands out for supporting football clubs and sporting bodies on commercial and regulatory affairs. Erin Grieve is noted for her experience in arbitrations.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners Scotland > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Leading partners Scotland > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Sport Scotland > TMT (technology, media and telecoms)
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Energy (excluding oil and gas)
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation
- Real estate > Commercial property: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: elsewhere in Scotland
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Projects
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Transport
- Real estate > Construction
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Public sector > Local government
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Employment > Employment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property