Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Litigation/Antitrust

Global Co-Chair of the Firm’s Antitrust and Trade Regulation Practice, Peter is a leading antitrust lawyer with extensive experience in civil antitrust matters for major corporations and private equity firms in addition to criminal antitrust work. He has represented clients in obtaining antitrust approvals in numerous high-profile and challenging transactions, often global in scope, and in other government antitrust investigations before the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and competition authorities outside of the United States. Prior to joining private practice, Peter was a trial attorney in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice.

Partner, Simpson Thacher. Trial attorney, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice, Telecommunications Task Force (1998-2001).

J.D., Cornell Law School (1996), cum laude, editor, Cornell Law Review; B.A., Cornell University (1992).