Peter Stassen

Practice Areas

Peter specialises in European competition law, with a particular emphasis on high-profile and complex M&A-related competition law issues.

Peter has considerable experience in European, Danish, and multi-jurisdictional merger control matters. Peter has led a number of high-profile merger control filings (both domestically and with the European Commission) within different complex industries (including biotech, energy, and IT services). Peter is particularly well-versed in providing strategic and deal certainty analyses of prospective transactions and also advises on all other transaction-related competition law issues, including how to handle the practical challenges associated with integration planning.

Peter also regularly advises on matters related to abuse of dominance, including how to organise distribution systems and agreements to avoid pricing and discrimination abuse He has extensive experience in public procurement law, particularly in the medical and pharmaceutical industries, as well as large-scale infrastructure and energy projects.

Peter has a Master's degree in Law from the University of Copenhagen and a Master of Laws with distinction from King's College London (specialising in EU competition law). In addition, the High Court of Eastern Denmark held an interim judgeship in 2021, allowing Peter to appear before it. Peter is also an experienced lecturer, having served as an external lecturer at King's College London from 2017–2020.

Peter is ardently focused on solving matters as part of a team, as the team effort is very important in an increasingly complex regulatory scene.

Cross-disciplinarity, seeing the case from all sides, and understanding the commercial and industry-specific challenges are all crucial elements to being able to provide valuable competition law advice.

Peter firmly believes that in order to truly create value for the client in large transactional projects, it is quite simply necessary to ensure that all team members are working disciplinedly and in the same direction. For example, involving the expertise of colleagues from the Economics team is a necessity in complex matters.