Timothy R.W. Cowen
UK Guide 2025
Band 5 : Competition Law
Band 5
About
Provided by Timothy R.W. Cowen
Practice Areas
Tim is independently recognised as one of the leading competition/regulatory lawyers in the EU. He leads the competition law team at Preiskel & Co where his practice covers a full range of competition law and regulatory matters arising across the Tech, Media and Telecoms sector.
He has dealt with almost every type of case in telecoms and competition law – advising on the application of the law and leading transactions and litigation.
Career
Tim Cowen is Chair of the Antitrust Practice at Preiskel & Co and is independently recognised as one of the leading competition/regulatory lawyers in the EU. Tim led BT’s competition law and public policy team for many years. He led the team advocating liberalisation of the EU market and the system of law that promotes competition among telecommunication and technology companies. From a deep understanding of the reasons for the law he now spends about half of his time on policy and the reasons either for reform or reinforcement of the system.