Kelly L. Galligan

Kelly Galligan is a corporate attorney with a focus on a wide range of general corporate law, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, litigation funding, private equity, and corporate governance.

Kelly has experience in an array of corporate transactions, including representing acquirers and target companies in stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures, mergers of privately held companies, joint venture transactions, litigation funding, and private equity investments. Her mergers and acquisitions practice is focused on the middle market with transaction values ranging between $5 million and $500 million. Kelly serves as outside general counsel for corporate clients, providing private companies day-to-day counseling on a broad range of transactional and governance matters.

Kelly’s practice touches a variety of industries including private equity, apparel and beauty, financial services, food and beverage, health, wellness and fitness, logistics, manufacturing, construction, and entertainment.

Committed to serving her community, Kelly provides pro bono legal services through the Public Law Center and serves as the Board Member of Project Youth OCBF (former associate board chair), a nonprofit organization committed to keeping at-risk youth in Orange County in school, healthy and drug-free. Additionally, Kelly is a Board Member of the Orange County Bar Association (OCBA), Vice President of the Orange County Women Lawyers Association (to be President in 2021), and Past Chair of the OCBA Young Lawyers Division.