Peter Harper
About
Provided by Peter Harper
Practice Areas
Peter is a partner in our Competition, EU and Trade group. He has over 10 years’ experience advising clients on a broad range of competition issues working in London, Brussels and Madrid.
Peter has extensive experience of obtaining merger control clearances for high profile and strategic UK and global acquisitions and joint ventures. His practice also includes advising clients on market investigations, market studies and other regulatory inquiries as well as on behavioural investigations and compliance matters.
He has particular expertise in the financial services and payments sectors where he has a long track record of advising on market studies and other actions taken by regulators including the European Commission, the CMA, the FCA and the Payment Systems Regulator. Peter also advises clients in regulated sectors particularly in the water industry.
Peter is a regular speaker on merger control and competition law issues and has experience working in-house having spent time on secondment to the competition team of a leading financial institution.
Chambers Review
UK
Peter Harper has a range of experience advising on complex merger procedures before the CMA, including Phase I and II investigations and foreign direct investment advice.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He is very good in that he is relentlessly focused on doing the best thing for the client. He is the kind of person who will imagine every possible bad scenario to make sure it does not happen."
"He approaches problems with commercial understanding and sensitivity for the needs of the client."
"He is very good in that he is relentlessly focused on doing the best thing for the client. He is the kind of person who will imagine every possible bad scenario to make sure it does not happen."
"He approaches problems with commercial understanding and sensitivity for the needs of the client."