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David Gallagher

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Biography

David is a Partner at Geradin Partners. David advises large corporates in antitrust authority investigations. This includes work advising Corning in relation to an Article 102 EU investigation and other companies being investigated by the European Commission and CMA in relation to antitrust and consumer issues. David is also a key member of Geradin Partners’ class action team. Notable cases he advises on include multi-billion antitrust class actions against Apple, Google and Amazon in relation to app stores, ad tech and self-preferencing in Amazon marketplace.

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 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 a prominent role over five years 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.

Experience

  • Advising Corning in relation to European Commission’s Article 102 investigation
  • Advising Sean Ennis in UK app developer class action against Apple
  • 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
  • Advising CMA on discrete aspects of the Brexit transition and relevant statutory instruments.
  • Drafted guidelines and ran consultation on improvements to the process for CMA document requests.
  • 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.

Education

  • Legal Practice Course, BPP Law School (2010)
  • Graduate Diploma in Law, BPP Law School (2009)
  • MA Medieval and Modern French, Worcester College, University of Oxford (2007)

Admission

England & Wales

Languages

English, French