Kevin Galbraith

About

Kevin Galbraith’s practice has two related components. First, he represents individuals and groups of investors in securities arbitrations against their brokerage firms. These cases involve misconduct such as fraud, negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, failure to disclose conflicts of interest and other violations of state and federal securities laws and regulations. Second, he represents employees in the financial services industry who are involved in internal or regulatory investigations or who are pursuing expungement proceedings to clear unwarranted marks from their licenses.Prior to founding his own firm, Mr. Galbraith practiced for several years at a securities arbitration and litigation boutique firm, Zamansky & Associates. There, he worked on cutting-edge cases representing both individual investors in arbitrations against their brokerage firms as well as large classes of investors who were harmed by corporate misconduct such as the London Whale trading fiasco at JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup’s subprime CDO fraud. At Zamansky, he won both the first and the largest arbitration awards against UBS Financial Services concerning their fraudulent marketing of so-called “100% Principal Protection Notes” issued by Lehman Brothers, and represented dozens of other similarly situated investors who achieved excellent results in their cases. He also successfully represented many other investors who suffered substantial losses as a result of their brokerage firms' misconduct. Finally, he helped secure from large banks and IRA custodians multi-million-dollar settlements on behalf of victims of Ponzi schemers who held their accounts at the defendant institutions. Prior to his work at the Zamansky firm, Mr. Galbraith was associated with two prominent national and international law firms in New York. At Cooley Godward Kronish, his practice centered on white-collar criminal and defense, general civil litigation and advising clients on how to navigate criminal and regulatory inquiries concerning their business practices. At DLA Piper, Mr. Galbraith maintained a practice in these same areas. He also advised large international insurers regarding their insureds’ exposure to liability in securities class actions, including the IPO Securities Litigation, and defended underwriters who were the subject of putative federal securities class actions.
Mr. Galbraith graduated from Connecticut College with a B.A. in Government in 1992. He earned his J.D. in 2002 from Fordham University School of Law, where he was a member of the Dean’s List and was Editor-in-Chief of the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal.
The Galbraith Law Firm has been recognized by Corporate Intl Magazine as New York's Boutique Securities Litigation Law Firm of the Year for 2017 and 2018. Mr. Galbraith has been received Martindale's highest rating of "Preeminent" and has been recognized by ALM as a "New York Legal Leader," placing him among the top 5% of attorneys in his practice area.