David Gallagher

Partner at Geradin Partners

Speaker

David is a Partner at Geradin Partners. In addition to general competition advisory work, he advises on multi-billion ad tech claims against Google in the UK and the Netherlands and a class action on behalf of UK app developers in relation Apple’s App Store.

Prior to Geradin Partners, David was Director of Litigation Funding at Harbour Litigation Funding. He advised on all competition damages actions funded by Harbour as well as cases in other areas of law such as employment, intellectual property and fraud. This experience provided a unique insight into the evolving world of litigation funding and the indispensable role it plays in the UK’s competition class action regime.

From 2017 to 2019 David was Assistant Legal Director at the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Notable experience at the CMA included advising the antitrust team on its excessive pricing case on the generic drug Liothyronine and advising on the CMA’s investigation of British Airways and American Airlines regarding the Atlantic Joint Business Agreement. At the CMA David also dealt with a judicial reviews, dawn raids in the pharma sector, Brexit transition workstreams and acted as a ‘Devil’s advocate’ on Phase 1 merger cases.

David trained and spent the first seven years of his career at Freshfields where he worked on a wide range of Article 101, Article 102 and merger control matters. This included over five years work in high profile EU and US antitrust investigations into alleged LIBOR and EURIBOR manipulation and related follow on claims as well as public and private M&A and multi-jurisdictional merger filings.