Joseph Gallagher

Joseph Gallagher litigates complex commercial, employment, and partnership disputes, and advises clients on regulatory and law enforcement investigations. His clients include high-level financial services executives and other professionals, companies, partnerships, and startups.

Updated Sep 2025

• Representing more than 40 former Buzzfeed employees in an arbitration related to the company’s 2021 IPO, defeating Buzzfeed’s efforts in the Delaware Court of Chancery to block that arbitration. (Buzzfeed Media Enterprises Inc. v. Anderson et al., C.A. No. 2023-0377).
  
  
• Representing several former members of Signature Bank’s digital assets group in litigation against the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to recover millions in unpaid compensation from the bank’s receivership estate, and defeating the FDIC’s motion to dismiss. (Seibert et al. v. FDIC, No. 24-cv-427).
  
  
• Representing a U.K.-based defense contractor in Delaware litigation against a U.S.-based technology company — one of its key suppliers — over alleged breaches of an exclusive reseller agreement and other contractual covenants.
  
  
• Leading an internal investigation on behalf of a broker-dealer alleged to have engaged in improper bond trading.

• Arbitration
• Commercial disputes
• Dispute resolution
• Labor and employment
• Plaintiff

• Financial services
• Technology and telecommunications

• BA - Williams College - 2003
• JD - Georgetown University Law Center - 2008

• New York - 2009
• SDNY - 2009
• EDNY - 2009
• Second Circuit - 2019