Norton Rose Fulbright has appointed London partner Peter Scott as the firm’s next managing partner for Europe, Middle East and Asia.

Scott currently leads Norton Rose Fulbright’s disputes and litigation practice in the region and also heads up the firm’s global antitrust and competition law practice. He handles clearance decisions and investigations by the European Commission and the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority and proceedings before the High Court in England and the EU’s General Court and Court of Justice. He starts his new role on April 1.