Katrina is an Associate Director in Osborne Clarke’s London office. She advises international consumer tech  businesses and  food & beverage brand owners on regulatory compliance and how to manage risk in relation to current and future EU & UK regulation. Her practice focuses on compliance with regulation that touches on her clients’ relationships with consumers. This includes consumer protection, food labelling, digital, e-commerce, equality / anti-discrimination regulation & advertising law. Katrina has a particular interest in helping clients influence future regulation including the regulation of alternative proteins.

Katrina routinely supports clients who are looking to launch into the UK and Europe by helping them bring DTC e-commerce, advertising, promotions and labelling of products into compliance with regulation.  Katrina also provides ongoing advice on compliance with advertising/marketing law.

Katrina is particularly experienced at helping platforms and marketplaces come into compliance with new regulation such as the EU Digital Services Act and the New Deal for Consumers. She also supports clients understanding proposals for new regulation and what this might mean for their business.

She co-leads OC’s Future Foods transformation project, and has particular expertise in alternative proteins regulation including novel foods, GE and other food regulation and how this applies to cutting edge FoodTech.

Katrina regularly represents clients when dealing with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), Trading Standards and other regulatory bodies: both defending clients when a complaint has been made and assisting clients in making complaints to regulators.

She advises on anti-discrimination and Equality legislation. Katrina provides international advice on how to bring consumer products and retail environments into compliance with current obligations and the forthcoming European Accessibility Act.

Katrina has worked in both private practice and has been seconded to Google and Nestlé. In addition, before starting her career in law, she worked for ten years as a client manager advising global food and drink manufacturers on advertising and brand strategy. As a consequence of these experiences, she understands how the food and advertising industries work and offers practical, commercial solutions to business problems.

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