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About
Provided by 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.
Chambers Review
UK
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.
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.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Catherine is extremely experienced and understands things from a strategic perspective. It feels like she is playing chess and foresees what is going to happen. Her advice has always been spot on."
"She is superb. Catherine is lovely to work with and a really friendly, positive, and enthusiastic person who deals well with clients."
"Catherine Wolfenden is lovely. She is very good, able and practical."
"Catherine Wolfenden is perfect with her advice and is really clear. She is very proactive and able to think ahead of what we need - very proactive."
"Catherine is extremely experienced and understands things from a strategic perspective. It feels like she is playing chess and foresees what is going to happen. Her advice has always been spot on."
"She is superb. Catherine is lovely to work with and a really friendly, positive, and enthusiastic person who deals well with clients."
"Catherine Wolfenden is lovely. She is very good, able and practical."
"Catherine Wolfenden is perfect with her advice and is really clear. She is very proactive and able to think ahead of what we need - very proactive."