UK Competition Law Conference 2025

Marcus Bokkerink

Independent Board Member

Pinsent Masons

Marcus Bokkerink was Chair of the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) from 2022 to 2025. During his tenure, he re-oriented the authority’s strategy towards helping consumers get better choices and a fair deal; enabling businesses to innovate and thrive by tackling anti-competitive practices; and freeing the economy to grow productively by replacing government regulation with competitive market solutions.

He initiated a broad programme of reforms to make CMA’s approach in mergers, consumer protection and digital markets more effective, faster; stepped up the CMA's engagement with consumers and set up direct engagement business and investors; and oversaw the CMA's adoption of significant new powers under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act. Prior to the CMA, he was a Senior Partner and Managing Director at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he led the firm's UK and European Consumer Practice, Strategy Practice and a range of global client teams. He also established and developed BCG’s China business. He is currently a Non-Executive Director at the international law firm Pinsent Masons, a director and investor in several start-ups, serves on the Board of Governors at the Manchester Grammar School, and chairs the Pembroke College Cambridge Development Board.

Peter Freeman CBE KC (Hon) - Keynote Speaker

Senior Advisor (Policy)

Competition Appeal Tribunal

Peter Freeman is a lawyer who has held senior posts in UK competition enforcement. From 2005 to 2011, he was Chairman of the Competition Commission, having been a Deputy Chairman from 2003. From 2011 to 2013, he was a senior consultant to the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. From 1973 to 2003, he practised at the law firm Simmons & Simmons, being made a partner in 1978. He was Managing Partner of the firm’s Commercial and Trade Law Department from 1994 to 1999 and Head of the EC and Competition Law Practice Group from 1987 to 2003. In 2012, he became a member of the Lloyds Enforcement Appeal Tribunal. He was called to the Bar (Middle Temple) in 1972 and admitted as a solicitor in 1977. He became an Ordinary Member of the Competition Appeal Tribunal in 2011 and subsequently a Chairman in 2013 until 2021. He is currently a Senior Policy Advisor at the Competition Appeal Tribunal.

He was a founding member and chairman of the Regulatory Policy Institute, Oxford, and has written and spoken widely on competition and regulatory law matters. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Competition Forum, University of St Gallen, and of the Scientific Board of Concorrência e Regulação, Lisbon. He is a Governor of Kingswood School, Bath, and Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s Appeals Committee.