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Daniel Gallagher
Senior Associate

Daniel Gallagher

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Daniel Gallagher is a technology, outsourcing and data lawyer. 

He is experienced structuring and negotiating complex technology transactions and strategic sourcing solutions, including: technology and business process outsourcing arrangements; cloud services such as IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS; digital transformation projects; software licensing, development and collaboration agreements; and other IP-rich transactions.

Daniel advises clients on the development, procurement and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI), as well as other emerging technologies such as robotic process automation (RPA) and distributed ledger technologies (including blockchain). He is author of the chapter on Deployer Obligations under the EU AI Act in The EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act: A Commentary, and co-author of the chapter on Outsourcing in Crypto and Digital Assets Law and Regulation. He has represented clients on Fintech, Insurtech and Proptech transactions. Daniel was named a “Leading associate” for Fintech by Legal 500 2025.

Daniel is also experienced advising clients on the commercialisation of data, and how to comply with laws regulating the use of non-personal (industrial) data and personal data, including data licensing, processing data in complex technology arrangements, cross-border transfers, and the appropriate security and privacy measures to protect data, including in arrangements with third parties.

Daniel is recommended by Legal 500 UK for IT, for Fintech and has also been recommended for Commercial Contracts.

He has a particular interest in the intellectual property and data issues arising from emerging technologies.
 

Awards & Recognitions
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  • Quote
    "Daniel Gallagher is recommended for IP transactions.”
    Legal 500, 2022
  • Quote
    "A 'Rising Star' for Fintech."
    Legal 500, 2022

Relevant experience

  • FTSE 100 client on the consolidation of its multi-vendor outsourced application maintenance and application development services.
  • Drafting standard contractual clauses for the procurement of AI systems and updating template services and outsourcing agreements for the use of AI systems for multiple clients (including FTSE 100).
  • FTSE 100 clients on the risks of deploying enterprise-wide generative AI technology, and implementation of AI impact assessments, guardrails, and legal checklists.
  • Cryptocurrency custody firm on its strategic technology licensing and software arrangements.
  • FTSE 100 client on the delivery of transformed IT infrastructure services (including service desk, service orchestration, access management, and hosting services, amongst other critical IT services).
  • Predictive maintenance services provider on its AI-powered, Internet-of-Things (IoT) services, including relating to the use of data collected from sensors installed within wind turbines.
  • Market-leading technology and data services provider on its multi-vendor procurement of disaggregated design, build, test, run and systems integrator services.
  • FTSE 100 clients on the negotiation and sale of IPv4 addresses to global technology providers.
  • Multiple financial services institutions on outsourcing of business change management services, hardware supply and support services, IT and other facilities management services.
  • Organisations in compliance with data protection laws and cyber security; cross-border data transfer arrangements, including Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs); data and cyber security issues in complex technology transactions; processing big data and processing data using artificial intelligence; data governance and protection policies and fair processing notices; responding to requests for disclosure of data (including from data subjects or in connection with regulatory investigations or litigation). 
     

Publications

  • Daniel Gallagher, “Obligations of Deployers of High-Risk AI Systems (Article 26)”, in The EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act: A Commentary, eds Ceyhun Necati Pehlivan, Nikolaus Forgó, Peggy Valcke (Wolters Kluwer, 2024)
  • Daniel Gallagher and Ian Stevens, “Outsourcing”, in Crypto and Digital Assets Law and Regulation, ed. Charles Kerrigan (Sweet and Maxwell, 2023).

Education

  • 2014 – Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice, University of Oxford, Oxford
  • 2004 – M.Phil, St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford