Practice Areas
While serving as both Co-Chair of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Practice and Chair of the firm's International Practice, Peter handles a variety of corporate matters, both domestic and international.
He represents clients in mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, corporate finance, joint ventures, insurance and reinsurance transactions.
Peter has worked on several hundred transactions throughout his career. He provides general corporate representation to many public and private companies, with a particular focus on advising European companies entering the U.S. market.
Recently, Peter served as the lead outside counsel on four of the 50 largest M&A transactions as listed in the Philadelphia Business Journal. The combined enterprise value of those transactions was more than $2 billion.
Peter also serves as Chair of the firm's International Practice Group. He previously served as Co-Chair of the firm’s 200-attorney Corporate Department and as a member of the Executive Committee, the firm’s governing body.
Career
While previously serving as the Chair of the International Practice Group at an Am Law 20 law firm, Peter was the architect of the first-ever acquisition of a European law firm by a U.S. law firm with which it had no prior affiliation. This historic acquisition received extensive press coverage in both the United States and Europe. Immediately prior to joining Fox, Peter was an equity partner at DLA Piper.