LAWYER PROFILE

Catherine Wolfenden

UK 2026

Osborne Clarke LLP

Ranked in 2 practice areas

Public Procurement

UK-wide

15 years ranked

Healthcare: Corporate/Commercial

UK-wide

4 years ranked

About

Provided by Osborne Clarke LLP

Practice Areas

Commercial

Regulatory and compliance

Product regulation and consumer protection

Regulated procurement

Competition, antitrust and trade

Regulated public procurement

Infrastructure services

Regulated public procurement

Career

Catherine is a dynamic market leading regulated public procurement lawyer. She has focussed on delivering practical and commercial solutions to clients' regulatory issues for over 20 years. Catherine leads a specialist team of Regulatory Disputes lawyers, focussed on delivering commercial solutions to businesses compliance and regulatory conundrums.

As a specialist regulated procurement lawyer, she draws on vast experience acting both for and against governmental bodies. Catherine's priority is always to ensure that the procurement rules are a facilitator, not an impediment: a means to achieving the client's strategic goals, not an end in themselves. Her practice includes high value public procurement disputes.

Acting for clients in all sectors where there is a public / private interface, she is particularly well known for her extensive experience in Healthcare, Technology and Infrastructure procurement projects.

Catherine qualified as a lawyer in 2001 at Freshfields, qualified as a solicitor advocate in 2004 and has been a Partner at Osborne Clarke since 2011.

Chambers Review

Provided by Chambers

Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Public Procurement - UK-wide

Band 1

Individual Editorial

Catherine Wolfenden leads the firm's regulated utilities and procurement practice group and is one of the most formidable litigators in her discipline. She also advises on the tender process and developments in policy.

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Healthcare: Corporate/Commercial - UK-wide

Band 3

Individual Editorial

Catherine Wolfenden is head of the disputes and risk practice group at Osborne Clarke. She advises healthcare clients on NHS contracts and public procurement law.

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Strengths

Provided by Chambers

Catherine is brilliant and completely understands our market, the business and the internal commercial priorities we have.
Public ProcurementChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
Catherine is responsive, reachable and provides really quick and clear advice.
Public ProcurementChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
Catherine is such a good business partner and is excellent at client care.
Public ProcurementChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
Catherine is one of the leading contentious procurement lawyers in the country.
Healthcare: Corporate/CommercialChambers Guide to the Legal Profession