Peter Alexiadis

Peter Alexiadis is an English and New South Wales qualified partner in the Brussels office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where he serves as Partner-In-Charge of the office. He is also a member of the Brussels Bar.

Mr. Alexiadis has practised Community law in Brussels since 1989, and focuses on competition law, intellectual property law and EU communications policy.

Mr. Alexiadis’ competition practice concentrates on merger control, actions under Article 102 TFEU EC and vertical distribution and licensing practices (both before the European Commission and before national competition and regulatory authorities). He was lead Competition counsel before the European Commission in two of the world's largest announced mergers, Vodafone/Airtouch and WorldCom/Sprint, and has more recently been a senior EU counsel in mergers involving  Carlyle/Commscope, MCI/Sprint,  Epson/Sanyo, Seagate/Maxtor and Vivendi/Activision. His intellectual property practice specialises in the interface between intellectual property rights protection and competition law, especially with regards to innovative products and services.

His communications practice spans all aspects of regulation, policy and competition law, for both private companies and government institutions in the European Union, Eastern Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. His work for the sector is divided between advice for and defense of private companies, and counseling government institutions on policy development and enforcement strategy. He has been a Project Leader on a number of milestone European Union studies relating to the development of raw policy in the communications sector.

Mr. Alexiadis is widely acknowledged in the professional press as a leader in his field in both competition law and communications law. For example Chambers Global, which continues to list him as a leading lawyer for Competition/European Law in the 2012 edition, has noted that clients appreciate his “brilliant knowledge of the telecoms sector” and “his ability to clearly convey the implications of legal developments”. Chambers Europe 2012 ranks Mr. Alexiadis for Competition/European Law and also in the top tier for TMT, noting that "market opinion universally names him as one of the most important TMT practitioners in Belgium". He has also been ranked third globally amongst the most highly regarded individuals in The International Who's Who of Regulatory Communications Lawyers, where he was hailed as an “exceptional” practitioner and an “expert in EU communications policy”, as well as listed as a worldwide leader in the 2012 International Who's Who of Competition.

Mr. Alexiadis is also recommended as a leading lawyer by Legal Experts EMEA 2012 for EU & Competition, IT & Telecoms and Corporate/M&A; by Best Lawyers 2012 for Media, Technology and Telecommunications; by PLC Which lawyer? 2011 for EU Competition and EU Telecommunications (since 2006); and by The Legal 500 EMEA 2012 for Belgium: Competition, which notes that he is "also an expert on telecoms regulations".

Mr. Alexiadis regularly lectures and writes on issues of competition law and practice and communications policy. He is the EC Affairs editor of the European Intellectual Property Review, the International Company & Commercial Law Review and the Utilities Law Review and is course coordinator at the Kings College LLM in London on "Competition Law and Regulated Network Sectors".

Selected Publications 

Author of “Balancing the Application of Ex Post and Ex Ante Disciplines under Community Law in Electronic Communications Markets: Square Pegs in Round Holes?” in Rights and Remedies in a Liberalised and Competitive Internal Market (edited by Eugène Buttigieg, Jean Monnet Professor, University of Malta), March 2012.

Author of "Cartels in the utilities sector: An overview of EU and national case law" in eCompetitions Bulletin, No44484, 27 March 2012.

Co-Author of "Free Market 1: Copyright 0 - UK Premier League Loses Away from Home" in Volume 18, Issue 6 of the Utilities Law Review, 2012.

Co-author of "Enforcement Of EU Communications Regulation At The Crossroads: Satisfying The Doctrine Of ‘Taking The Utmost Account’ Through The Use Of The Concept Of ‘Ignoring In Its Entirety’" in Volume 18, Issue 5 of the Utilities Law Review, 2011.

Co-Author of "IIC TMF Brussels 2011 – The Elusive Common Market Goal", Intermedia by IIC, 2011.

"Roundtable: Regulatory Communications' Global Competition Review", January 2011.

"Next Generation Access: Italy Experiments with a Joint Investment Model", Utilities Law Review (Volume 18, Issue 1), October 2010.

Co-author of "The European NGA Recommendation: the Banal, the Controversial and the Inconclusive", (Volume 38, Issue 4), Inter Media , October 2010.

"A Tale of Two Cities: The H3G Judicial Reviews in the UK and Ireland - Unwelcome Implications for the EU's Regulatory Framework for Electronic Communications", UK Competition Law Journal , June 2006.

Co-author of "Court upholds contentious prohibition", European Lawyer , March 2006.

Co-author of "The European Commission Consents to the Consolidation of Europe's Skies: The Air France/KLM Merger", Utilities Law Review , February 2005.

Co-author of "Competition Scrutiny of Media and Broadcasting", Global Competition Review’s European Antitrust Review , 2005.

Co-author of "ECJ Reprimands European Commission for 'Avoidable Errors", The European Lawyer , November 2004.

Co-author of "Vertical Restraints: New Directions in EU Policy", Global Competition Review's European Antitrust Review , 2004.

Co-author of "Revisiting Competition Law and Regulatory Analyses of Consolidations in the Communications Sector", Financier Worldwide , July 2004.

Co-author of "The Application of the Concept of Technology Neutrality Under the New ECNS Regulatory Framework", ECTA Review , 2004.

Author of "New Regulatory Framework: New Way of Thinking", Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Media and Telecommunication Lawyers , 2003.