Anthony has been a civil litigator for more than 20 years, on both coasts (Los Angeles and New York), successfully resolving complex problems at trial and at the negotiating table. Some representations that have recently gone to trial have included:

• Won a $21 million verdict in a breach of fiduciary duty case involving a $200 million California oil and gas drilling company.  The jury unanimously found all directors, officers, and the controlling shareholders liable in a week-long federal trial in July 2024. Also drafted winning summary judgment motion as plaintiff on the breach of fiduciary duty claims.

• Obtained a $3.7 million jury verdict that was deemed one of the “Largest and Most Significant Verdicts” in California for the year 2018 by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal. This victory included an award of punitive damages against two of the school’s Board of Education members. Anthony represented a school district’s Chief Financial and Operating Officer in his wrongful termination after he and the Superintendent blew the whistle about corruption and bribery that was occurring in the school district.

• After one week of a two-week trial, obtained a highly favorable settlement for over $6 million for three clients that had substantial sums stolen from their brokerage accounts by a broker-dealer’s financial advisors in a FINRA customer arbitration.

• Achieving a complete defense victory at trial for an employer in a FEHA discrimination and retaliation case in Los Angeles Superior Court.

Anthony has also achieved successful resolution for his clients short of trial—and in many cases prior to commencing litigation—effectively winning the case without incurring the significant expense of a trial and/or litigation. These include:

• Conceived and implemented a legal strategy that forced a settlement of a False Claims Act case with damages alleged to be in excess of $50 million for a low six-figure settlement on behalf of a healthcare entity and its owners.

• Negotiated $4 million settlement on behalf of a internet technology company that had been harmed by a global leader in computer hardware manufacturing without having to file a lawsuit.

•  Successfully obtained a settlement in a construction-related breach of contract case that provided the client, a subcontractor, was paid in full with interest, whereas other creditors took significant haircuts on the outstanding balances owed to them.

• Negotiated a very favorable settlement without litigation in a case filed by a major U.S. insurance company in Federal Court that made allegations of racketeering, fraud, and unlawful and fraudulent business practices.

• Successfully negotiated full payment of employment contract, forgiveness of loan,  and stock appreciation rights for a CEO where the company had alleged there was cause for termination.

Prior to coming to the West Coast, Anthony practiced for 12 years at Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP in New York City, where his practice included complex commercial civil litigation and securities litigation for Fortune 500 corporations and executives. At Kasowitz, Anthony represented:

• An international insurance conglomerate (Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited) in a $6 billion action against some of the largest hedge funds in the United States, including SAC Capital, Third Point, and Kynokos, that were conducting a coordinated bear raid on Fairfax in an attempt to put Fairfax out of business and greatly profit by doing so.

• Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and Lloyds TSB Bank, where he helped garner an 80% recovery to these companies in an action relating to losses on holdings of more than $250 million of financial instruments issued by National Century Financial Enterprises in the largest ever corporate fraud case involving a privately held company.

• Post-charge representation of the former CEO of Invesco in the highly-publicized enforcement actions concerning late trading and market-timing in mutual funds by the SEC and the New York Attorney General’s Office.

• AAI, a military defense contractor with a transportation division, in connection with litigation in the Northern District of California arising from a $191 million project to refurbish more than 300 hybrid electric buses for the City of San Francisco’s MUNI bus fleet. AAI asserted fraud and breach of contract claims against AIG, as surety, and defended against claims brought by Skoda, the Czech manufacturing company. The case settled shortly before trial pursuant to a confidential settlement that was highly favorable to AAI.

• Level 3 Communications, Ltd., one of the largest telecommunications providers in the country, in a post-acquisition contract dispute.

Anthony is licensed to practice in California and New York.