John Calandra
USA Guide 2024
Band 5 : Litigation: General Commercial
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About
Provided by John Calandra
Practice Areas
John J. Calandra represents clients in complex commercial litigation and formerly headed the New York Litigation Practice Group. He represents clients in litigations and arbitrations crossing many industries, including technology, chemicals, satellite, energy, financial products, outsourcing, hotel management, manufacturing and distribution.
John litigates a wide variety of cases, including securities and common law fraud, breach of contracts and long-term distributor and supply agreements, breach of fiduciary duties, environmental and product liability, negligent misrepresentation, breach of representations and warranties, accounting irregularities, wrongful terminations, antitrust violations, various claims arising from the sale of assets and businesses, and numerous class action lawsuits.
John has repeatedly served as a judge of Cornell Law School’s highly regarded Transactional Lawyers Competition, and has guest lectured at Fordham Law School on summary judgment tactics and procedures.
Chambers Review
USA
John Calandra is an accomplished litigator with a practice spanning a vast array of industries. He possesses experience handling contractual disputes, antitrust litigation and bankruptcy issues.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"John is a great strategic thinker with a great understanding of precedent. He is able to synthesize complex issues into a form that senior leadership will understand."
"He works endlessly, has great skills and is client-centric."
"He provides excellent advice."
"John is a great strategic thinker with a great understanding of precedent. He is able to synthesize complex issues into a form that senior leadership will understand."
"He works endlessly, has great skills and is client-centric."
"He provides excellent advice."