Michael P. Gallagher

Partner

  • Michael P. Gallagher
  • Phone: +1 215 979 1965

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  • Duane Morris LLP
    30 South 17th Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19103-4196
    USA

Michael P. Gallagher concentrates his practice in the areas of corporate finance, private equity, family businesses, securities, mergers and acquisitions, workouts, exit planning and general corporate matters. He represents issuers and underwriters in private and public offerings of debt and equity securities, as well as financial and strategic buyers and sellers in stock and asset acquisitions. Mr. Gallagher has significant experience advising clients in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, technology, healthcare and life sciences, focusing on contract research organizations (CROs).

Mr. Gallagher is a 1984 cum laude graduate of Villanova University Law School, where he was editor of the Villanova Law Review, and a 1980 cum laude graduate of Boston College.

Areas of Practice

  • Corporate Finance
  • Private Equity
  • Family Businesses
  • Securities Law
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Workouts
  • Exit Planning

  • Life Sciences

Admissions

  • Pennsylvania
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Education

  • Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1984
    - Villanova Law Review
    - Order of the Coif
  • Boston College, B.A., cum laude, 1980

Experience

  • Duane Morris LLP
    - Partner, 2017-present
  • Pepper Hamilton LLP
    - Partner, 1996-2017
  • Ballard Spahr Andrews and Ingersoll
    - Partner, 1992-1996
  • Dilworth Paxson
    - Associate, 1984-1992

Professional Activities

  • The Irish American Business Chamber & Network
    - Member, Board of Directors, September 2017-present
  • Entrepreneurs' Forum of Greater Philadelphia
    - Board Member and Officer, 1993-1996

Honors and Awards

  • Named to The 2019 Irish Legal 100
  • Selected as one of the Irish Global 100, a list of top business leaders of Irish heritage who have contributed to growing business in Ireland, by Ireland Inc.'s Business & Finance, 2013

  • AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®

Civic and Charitable Activities

  • The Ireland Funds
    - Board of Directors, 2015-present
    - Member, Chairman's Golf Committee, Philadelphia Golf Classic, 2006-present
  • Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyer for the Arts
    - Member, 1987-present
  • WXPN Radio
    - Member, "Campaign for the Music" Committee, 2008-2012
  • St. Thomas of Villanova Parish
    - Finance Council, 2002-2010
  • The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Philadelphia
    - Board of Directors, 1996-2002
  • Main Line Art Center
    - Board of Directors, 1993-2001
    - Co-chair, Building Committee, 1998-2001

Selected Speaking Engagements

  • Speaker, "Personal and Business Transaction Readiness," Falcon Capital Partners LLC, November 13, 2019
  • Speaker, "Due Diligence - Attorney & CPA," Lincoln Financial Group CPE/CLE, April 29, 2017

Representative Matters

  • Represented a biotechnology company in its sale to a private equity buyer.

  • Represented a health services company in a sale to a PE backed strategic buyer.

  • Represented a foreign family office in a $5 million Series C investment in a US-based leading global provider of parcel delivery software and hardware to businesses in the U.S. and Europe.

  • Represented a PE firm in sale of an IT services portfolio company to a PE firm.

  • Represented a PE firm in a buyout of another PE firm stockholder in a healthcare services billing management company.

  • Represented the owners of MetroAlert, Inc., which provides software to law enforcement agencies in the Mid-Atlantic region, in a sale of 100% of its stock to TriTech Software Systems, an Insight Venture Partners portfolio investment.

  • Assisted in the $45 million sale of a private equity-owned health services portfolio company to a strategic healthcare company.

  • Facilitated the roll-up of 12 pharmaceutical service companies for purposes of selling the combined entity.

  • Represented a Vancouver-based investment management firm in a $45 million bridge and permanent credit facility for a Texas-based oil & gas exploration and production company.

  • Represented investment bank Fairmount Partners as financial advisor to special committees of several publicly held It and healthcare service companies "going private" and sale transactions.

  • Representing a government contractor in a proposed strategic acquisition of another government contractor.

  • Represented a publicly-held life sciences company in a proposed acquisition and in general corporate and securities matters.

  • Representing a private equity fund in the sale of an IT services portfolio company.

  • Counseled a Dublin-based private equity group in several U.S. acquisitions and investments.

  • Representing a Jersey Channel Island family office in connection with its investment into a U.S. private equity fund.

  • Representing a family office in connection with its investment into a U.S. private equity fund.

  • Assisted a government contractor providing engineering services to the U.S. Navy in a $40 million Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP) sale/recapitalization and refinancing transaction.

  • Represented an ESOP-owned diversified holding company in the $60 million divestiture of a plastics, coatings and chemical manufacturing business to a private equity-backed competitor and in the $100 million sale of eight operating manufacturing businesses to a private equity fund buyer.

  • Facilitated the $100 million sale of a supply chain software company to a private equity buyer.

  • Counseled an international U.S.- based contract research organization (CRO) in a $600 million equity recapitalization with a New York-based private equity firm.

  • Represented a private equity buyer in the $15 million acquisition of a supplier of subsea systems and products.