Stuart Hudson

Stuart is co-lead of Brunswick’s global regulatory practice. He has advised companies across Europe, North America and Asia on mergers, antitrust investigations and other regulatory issues.

From 2019 to 2023 Stuart served at the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) as Senior Director of Strategy and a member of the Executive Committee. He was on the steering group of the new Digital Markets Unit (DMU) and he has also been Head of Government Affairs at the energy regulator Ofgem.

In his political career, Stuart advised leaders of the Labour Party in government and in opposition. During the global financial crisis he was appointed a Special Adviser to Prime Minister Gordon Brown and over the years he has held policy and strategy roles in national and local election and referendum campaigns.

Stuart’s UK M&A experience includes advising companies, ministers and regulators on many of the highest-profile transactions of the past two decades: Kraft/Cadbury, Pfizer/AstraZeneca, SoftBank/ARM, 21st Century Fox/Sky, Melrose/GKN, Sainsburys/Asda and Microsoft/Activision.

Stuart is also an experienced non-executive director, including as Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee and Senior Independent Director at the health care charity Sue Ryder. He holds a MSc in Finance from the University of London and a BA in History and Politics from the University of Oxford.