David Gallagher
David Gallagher is a Partner at Geradin Partners and played a leading role in the creation of the firm’s antitrust damages practice. He advises on multi-billion antitrust class actions against Google and Amazon at the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal. He also advises companies being investigated by the European Commission and CMA in relation to antitrust and consumer issues.
Prior to Geradin Partners, David was Director of Litigation Funding at Harbour Litigation Funding where he advised on competition damages actions.
From 2017 to 2019 he was Assistant Legal Director at the CMA.
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.
- Advising Corning in relation to European Commission’s Article 102 investigation
- Advising Andreas Stephan in UK third party seller class action against Amazon
- Advising Barry Rodger in UK app developer class action against Google
- Advising Or Brook in UK advertiser class action against Google
- Advising Ad Tech Collective Action LLP in publisher class action against Google
- Advising Harbour on follow-on claims in European Courts in relation to European Commission competition decisions as well as standalone claims.
- Advising CMA on its successful defence of a judicial review brought by Advanz Pharmaceuticals in relation to the procedure around the Liothyronine investigation.
- Article 102/Chapter II investigation concerning excessive pricing in relation to the generic drug Liothyronine.
- Article 101/Chapter I investigation into the transatlantic joint venture between American Airlines, British Airways and other airlines
- LIBOR: Advised global investment bank on European Commission and other regulators’ investigations into LIBOR antitrust infringements. The client was a leniency applicant in Swiss Franc Libor, settled Yen Libor and contested the Euribor case. Around five years’ experience on this case which included responses to various Statements of Objection, dawn raids, access to file and the settlement, hybrid settlement and leniency procedures as well as an appeal to the European General Court.EU and UK merger investigations including Poundland/99p Stores, Nikkei/FT, Ball/Rexam, Sysco/Brakes, Boparan/Bernard Matthews and ZPG/Expert Agent.
David Gallagher is a Partner at Geradin Partners and played a leading role in the creation of the firm’s antitrust damages practice. He advises on multi-billion antitrust class actions against Google and Amazon at the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal. He also advises companies being investigated by the European Commission and CMA in relation to antitrust and consumer issues.
Prior to Geradin Partners, David was Director of Litigation Funding at Harbour Litigation Funding where he advised on competition damages actions.
From 2017 to 2019 he was Assistant Legal Director at the CMA.
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.
- Advising Corning in relation to European Commission’s Article 102 investigation
- Advising Andreas Stephan in UK third party seller class action against Amazon
- Advising Barry Rodger in UK app developer class action against Google
- Advising Or Brook in UK advertiser class action against Google
- Advising Ad Tech Collective Action LLP in publisher class action against Google
- Advising Harbour on follow-on claims in European Courts in relation to European Commission competition decisions as well as standalone claims.
- Advising CMA on its successful defence of a judicial review brought by Advanz Pharmaceuticals in relation to the procedure around the Liothyronine investigation.
- Article 102/Chapter II investigation concerning excessive pricing in relation to the generic drug Liothyronine.
- Article 101/Chapter I investigation into the transatlantic joint venture between American Airlines, British Airways and other airlines
- LIBOR: Advised global investment bank on European Commission and other regulators’ investigations into LIBOR antitrust infringements. The client was a leniency applicant in Swiss Franc Libor, settled Yen Libor and contested the Euribor case. Around five years’ experience on this case which included responses to various Statements of Objection, dawn raids, access to file and the settlement, hybrid settlement and leniency procedures as well as an appeal to the European General Court.EU and UK merger investigations including Poundland/99p Stores, Nikkei/FT, Ball/Rexam, Sysco/Brakes, Boparan/Bernard Matthews and ZPG/Expert Agent.