Catherine Wolfenden

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.