Katherine Holmes

Biography

Katherine Holmes (appointed in 2009) was, until her appointment, a partner and head of the competition department at the London office of Reed Smith which merged in 2007 with Richards Butler, her former firm. Before joining Richards Butler in 1989, Katherine was an in-house competition lawyer for more than eight years, latterly as senior competition counsel at Guinness PLC; before that, she was at the Confederation of British Industry. She was for several years the Chairman of the Joint Working Party of the Bars and Law Societies of the UK on Competition Law.

Register of interests

• Partner, Reed Smith LLP (until August 2009), Consultant to the London office of Reed Smith until 31 August 2012