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.
Chambers Review
UK
Timothy Cowen of Preiskel & Co LLP often acts on abuse of dominance investigations in the technology sector. He has further experience in merger control filings and CMA market studies. He also assists with competition compliance issues.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He understands how businesses think."
"I think Timothy Cowen has a combination of a keen strategic understanding of the issues at play and the interplay between the various issues and various legal regimes."
"What he says stands. There is genuine substance with him."
"He understands how businesses think."
"I think Timothy Cowen has a combination of a keen strategic understanding of the issues at play and the interplay between the various issues and various legal regimes."
"What he says stands. There is genuine substance with him."