Anthony M. Calvano

Anthony Calvano is a partner in BLB&G’s Delaware office, prosecuting corporate governance and shareholder rights litigation on behalf of the firm’s institutional investor clients. With nearly a decade of experience, Anthony leverages his deep knowledge of the Delaware courts to provide BLB&G’s clients with first-rate representation and advice.

Anthony has a wealth of experience handling complex fiduciary duty, merger-related, and stockholder rights disputes in the Delaware Court of Chancery. He is also highly skilled in litigating claims arising from mergers and acquisitions in Delaware’s state and federal courts.

Before joining BLB&G, Anthony practiced at Ross Aronstam & Moritz, where he focused on complex commercial litigation, including representing stockholders in high-stakes corporate governance litigation. Highlights of Anthony’s trial experience include the following:

• Achieving a favorable ruling in the Delaware Court of Chancery invalidating the removal of a child-safe phone company founder and denying a dilutive note conversion in litigation under 8 C. § 225.
• Obtaining a favorable ruling for an alternative entity in a limited liability company agreement dispute before the Delaware Court of Chancery.
• Securing a directed verdict for a chemical manufacturing company on both its claims for $75 million and the $400 million counterclaim filed by the defendant following an eight-day jury trial before the Delaware Superior Court’s Complex Commercial Litigation Division involving breach of contract claims over an agreement concerning the potential sale of a titanium dioxide facility in the United States for $1.1 billion.

He previously served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery. Anthony began his legal career as a corporate litigation associate at elite corporate defense firm Richards, Layton & Finger, representing directors, corporations, stockholders, private equity funds, and alternative entities in litigation before the Delaware Court of Chancery, the Delaware Supreme Court, and federal courts.

Anthony received his J.D. magna cum laude from Notre Dame Law School. There, he served as editor-in-chief of the Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law and was named a Dean’s Circle Fellow.