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Cynthia Calder, a G&E partner, concentrates her practice in the areas of corporate governance and securities litigation.  She has represented shareholders in such seminal cases in the Delaware Court of Chancery as UniSuper Ltd. v. News Corp. (vindicating the shareholders’ right to vote), Carmody v. Toll Brothers (finding the dead-hand poison pill defensive measure was illegal under Delaware law), Jackson National Life Insurance Co. v. Kennedy (breaking new ground in the interpretation of fiduciary duties owed to preferred shareholders), Haft v. Dart Group Corp. (resolving a contest for control of a significant public corporation) and Paramount Communications Inc. v. QVC Network (obtaining an injunction preventing the closing of a merger to force the board of directors to appropriately consider a competing bid for the corporation).

Ms. Calder is a graduate of the University of Delaware (cum laude 1987) and the Villanova University School of Law (1991). She is a member of the Delaware Bar Association.

Upon graduating from law school, Ms. Calder served as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Maurice A. Hartnett, III, then a Vice Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery and now a retired Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court. Prior to joining Grant & Eisenhofer, Ms. Calder was an associate in the Wilmington office of Blank Rome LLP.

Ms. Calder has co-authored numerous articles on corporate governance and securities litigation, including:  “Options Backdating from the Shareholders’ Perspective” Wall Street Lawyer, Vol. 11, No. 3, “Securities Litigation Against Third Parties:  Pre-Central Bank Aiders and Abettors Become Targeted Primary Defendants” Securities Reform Act Litigation Reporter, Vol. 16, No. 2 and “Pleading Scienter After Enron:  Has the World Really Changed?”  Securities Regulation & Law, Vol. 35, No. 45.

Bar Admissions:

• Delaware
• Pennsylvania
• United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
• United States District Court for the District of Delaware

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