Qualifications and Career Profile
James J. Calder devotes his practice to antitrust and antitrust litigation.
Mr. Calder’s antitrust practice includes litigation, counseling and responding to Government antitrust investigations. He has handled matters involving price fixing, market allocation, group boycotts and other horizontal restraints, monopolization, intellectual property licensing and other intellectual property issues, industry-wide standard setting efforts, vertical restraints, distribution issues and Robinson-Patman Act problems.
Mr. Calder also represents parties to U.S. and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. His M&A work includes substantive antitrust merger analysis, Hart-Scott-Rodino and foreign merger clearance compliance, responding to U.S. and foreign Government merger investigations and negotiating or litigating resolutions in contested merger situations. He also provides antitrust representation in the structuring and operation of domestic and international joint ventures and other collaborative efforts among competitors.
He has handled matters for clients in a broad number of industries including: apparel, athletic equipment, aviation, beer, builders hardware, chemicals, computer chip production, computer hardware and software, computer video games, consumer electronics, electrical carbon products, fertilizer additives, fine art dealing, freight forwarding, health care, industrial laundry and linen supply, medical devices, military electronics, milk, motion pictures, music publishing, pharmaceuticals, radio, recorded music, reinsurance, securities trading, textile machinery, and television.
Mr. Calder's litigation practice includes antitrust, competitive tort, commercial and reinsurance cases and arbitrations. Mr. Calder has also represented market makers on the NASDAQ in SEC and NASD enforcement matters.
Mr. Calder was named a New York Super Lawyer in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
Associations and Committees
Mr. Calder served as a member of the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York from 2001 to 2004.
He is also a member of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association and has served as Vice Chair of its Civil Practice & Procedure Committee. He was a member of the ABA’s Antitrust Section Task Force that reviewed proposed legislation to repeal or modify the Supreme Court’s decision in Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois, as well as the Antitrust Section Task Force that drafted Sample Jury Instructions in Civil Antitrust Cases.
Lectures and Articles
Mr. Calder’s publications include:
Calder and Stoner, “Arbitration, 24 Years After 'Mitsubishi,’” New York Law Journal, May 2009.
Lynes, Calder and Fisher, co-author of chapter on United States Law in “Getting the Deal Through – Air Transport – United States” 2007, 2008 and 2009.
Calder and Gonen, “Recent Antitrust Developments in the Law of Joint Ventures”. The Antitrust Review of the Americas, 2008, Global Competition Review.
Contributing author, “A Review of Similarities and Contrasts Between American and European Union Competition Law,” 2004 Columbia Business Law Review 380.
Calder, "Practical Aspects of Antitrust Law: What Every Business Executive Should Know," Inside the Minds: Winning Antitrust Strategies, Aspatore Publishers, 2003.
Contributing author, "Merger Enforcement Developments in 2002," 2003 Columbia Business Law Review 452.
Calder and Guest, "The Dark Side of E-Mail; Or, Why Every Business Should Have an E-Mail Retention Policy," 3.2 Alley Cat News at 22-3 (February 1999). Reprinted in Japan in Foresight magazine.
Calder, Kleinberg, Lipsky and Varner, "A New Alternative to Antitrust Litigation: Arbitration of Antitrust Disputes," 3 Antitrust at 18 (Spring 1989).
Foster and Calder, "Responding to a Grand Jury Investigation," 3 Antitrust Counseling and Litigation Techniques 53-1 (Von Kalinowski ed. 1984) (Revised 1991).
Admissions
Mr. Calder is a member of the New York Bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuits and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
Education
Mr. Calder received his undergraduate degree, with high distinction, from the University of Virginia (B.A., 1974), where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School (J.D., 1977), where he was a Hardy Dillard fellow.