Peter Rowland

Peter Rowland is an Of Counsel in the Competition, Regulation and Trade team at Herbert Smith Freehills, based in Brussels.

Peter is an Of Counsel with over 15 years’ experience advising international clients on all aspects of EU and UK competition law, in particular merger control (M&A and joint ventures), cartel investigations, market investigations, horizontal and vertical agreements, and compliance programmes. He is dual-qualified in both Belgium (Advocaat, Brussels Bar) and England & Wales (Solicitor).

With over 15 years of experience of dealing with a broad range of multi-jurisdictional competition cases in London and Brussels, Peter combines strong technical expertise with ‘can do’ business-focused advice. He is recognised as a “Future Leader” in Who’s Who Legal (2021), and a “Rising Star” in The Legal 500 EMEA (2021).

Peter regularly speaks at conferences on competition law developments and contributes to thought leadership, including speaking at the Informa Pharmaceutical Law Academy and IP Summer School at the University of Cambridge. He is a co-editor of the mergers chapter of the Sweet & Maxwell EU Competition Law Handbook, co-editor of the EU chapter of Lexology Competition in Digital Markets, and a regular contributor to the HSF Notes competition blog.