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Nikolaos Peristerakis

Nikolaos Peristerakis

K&L Gates GP, Belgium

Work Department

Antitrust, Competition, and Trade regulation

Position

Nikolaos Peristerakis is a partner in the firm’s Brussels office. He is a member of the Antitrust, Competition & Trade Regulation practice group.

Nick has more than 20 years of experience advising and representing clients in merger control and antitrust investigations. He has handled the EU and global merger clearance process for hundreds of public M&A, joint venture and private equity transactions. He has also led or co-led numerous high-profile Phase I remedy and Phase II cases before the European Commission and globally. Nick has also handled several complex antitrust and abuse of dominance matters before the European Commission. Key matters include the representation of a leading semiconductor company in the first interim measures case in more than two decades imposed by the European Commission in an abuse of dominance proceeding, and the representation of a major Wall Street bank in the European Commission’s Credit Default Swaps investigation (GCR Behavioral Matter of the Year in 2016). Nick has represented clients in a wide range of sectors, technology, digital platforms, semiconductors, telecoms, media, aerospace, basic industries, consumer goods, food

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