EE general counsel to leave as BT prepares to merge legal teams
James Blendis to depart as the two teams gear up for full integration next month
June 30, 2017 at 05:19 AM
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EE general counsel James Blendis is set to leave the company as BT prepares to officially integrate the two legal teams.
EE's in-house legal team will transfer officially into the BT Group from the start of July. It will sit within BT's consumer legal team, which is led by GC Russell Johnstone.
Blendis departs after being retained as GC of the EE division since the £12.5bn merger with BT completed in January 2016. He first joined EE as its GC in 2010 and was previously GC of T-Mobile for six years.
It is understood he stayed on to assist with the integration of the legal teams initially.
A BT spokesperson said: "James Blendis will be leaving EE following the integration of the EE legal team into BT Group.
"James has led the legal team through the merger of Orange and T-Mobile, the launch of EE and 4G, and many significant projects and challenges along the way. We'd like to thank James for many contributions during his time with EE and wish him all the best for the future."
Since the merger, BT has made a number of changes to its operations including, in 2016, separating itself into six separate lines of business with the legal teams reorganised to deal with the changes.
The same year, the EE side of the business also underwent a review which looked at whether or not the members of the team stay within the EE legal team or move across to the BT side of the business.
Earlier this year, BT finalised a review of its UK and Ireland legal advisers, with 37 firms appointed to the new line-up.
Firms that made it onto the roster include Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Linklaters Addleshaw Goddard, Eversheds Sutherland, Berwin Leighton Paisner and Bond Dickinson among others.
The new appointments will run until April 2020.
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