Ms. Catherine E. Galea

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Biography

Catherine E. David (Galea) is a member of the Health Care & FDA Practice in Greenberg Traurig's Philadelphia office. She focuses her practice on health care regulatory, compliance, transactional, and enforcement matters. Cate concentrates her practice on the laws that govern health data, including, HIPAA, interoperability and information blocking regulations, Part 2, and similar state laws. Cate regularly handles responses to government investigations, policy drafting and implementation, and negotiating business associate agreements. She advises clients on health care licensing issues with mergers and acquisitions, fraud and abuse compliance under Stark Law and the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute, and health information privacy and security compliance under HIPAA and state law.

Concentrations

•Health care fraud and abuse
•Health care government investigations and defense
•HIPAA and health privacy & security
•Data protection, privacy & cybersecurity
•Life sciences
•Life sciences transactions
•Life sciences regulatory and compliance
•FDA regulatory, compliance, and enforcement
•Tech & data
•Digital & transformative technologies’
•Digital health & med tech
•False claims act
•Health care private equity

Recognition & Leadership

Awards & Accolades

•Listed, The Legal 500 United States, Healthcare - Service Providers, 2024-2025
•Listed, City & State, “Trailblazers in Healthcare,” 2025

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Areas of Practice (5)

  • Health Care & FDA Practice
  • Data Privacy & Cybersecurity
  • Life Sciences & Medical Technology
  • Retail
  • Digital Health

Education & Credentials

University Attended:
Drexel University, M.P.H., 2016; Dickinson College, B.A., 2011
Law School Attended:
Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, J.D., Health Law Concentration Honors, summa cum laude, 2016
Year of First Admission:
2017
Admission:
2018, District of Columbia; 2017, Pennsylvania
Memberships:

Professional & Community Involvement

•Adjunct professor on health care data privacy and compliance, Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law

Reported Cases:
Experience: Internships: Law Clerk, Office of the General Counsel, University of Pennsylvania, 2016; Legal Research Intern, Public Health Management Corporation, 2016; Legal Intern, Office of the General Counsel, Drexel University, 2015; Legal Intern, Legal Clinic for the Disabled Inc, Radiation and Oncology Department at Hahnemann Hospital, 2014; Judicial Intern, Hon. Carolyn T. Carluccio, Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas, 2014
ISLN:
1000778942

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