Katie Hudson

Katie Hudson is an associate in Slaughter and May's Competition Group. She advises clients on a broad range of UK and EU competition, consumer protection, and digital regulation matters across a range of sectors and industries, spent over two years in the firm's Brussels office and has spent time in-house with the competition teams at both Google and Meta, giving her particular insight into EU and UK competition enforcement in the technology sector.

 

Katie's consumer protection experience includes advising Booking Holdings in relation to the Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) consumer protection investigation into the online hotel booking sector and related commitments to the European Consumer Protection Cooperation Network, as well as a housebuilder in connection with the CMA’s consumer protection investigation into the leasehold housing market. She regularly advises clients on engagement with competition and consumer protection authorities, including the CMA (in particular with respect to the new regulatory regime in the UK under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024) and the European Commission (EC).

 

Alongside her consumer protection work, Katie has advised on several significant competition matters across a range of sectors. Her recent experience includes advising Wiz on its acquisition by Google, Meta and Google on issues arising under the Digital Markets Act and similar regulatory regimes, Warner Music Group on the CMA's music and streaming market study, S&P Global on its acquisition of IHS Markit, and Ocado Group on its online grocery retail joint venture with Marks & Spencer.