Tony heads the Firm’s Public Utilities practice and represents energy, water, and telecommunications clients before several state regulatory agencies in Connecticut, including the Department of Public Utility Control, the Department of Environmental Protection and the Connecticut Siting Council. He counsels both regulated and non-regulated businesses in transactional and operational areas, including mergers and acquisitions, leases and contractual matters.

Tony provides antitrust counseling and monitoring to various trade associations, including trade associations involved in the environmental, forest and paper products industries. He also counsels clients in employment matters, including executive compensation, employment contracts and discrimination and termination issues.

Tony has been selected as a Connecticut Super Lawyer for 2006.

Prior to joining Whitman Breed Abbott & Morgan in 1995 Tony was in private practice in Connecticut and gained 15 years of experience in the corporate sector as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Aquarion Company, which owns New England’s largest investor-owned water utility operation, and as Chief Counsel of The Flintkote Company, a mining, manufacturing and building materials company. He is a former Connecticut Supreme Court Law Clerk.

Curcio v. Bax, 106 Conn. App. 307 (2008) - Represented successful appellees in defense of claims arising out of sale of CT corporation; Appellate Court affirmed decision that appellant was not entitled to credits against the purchase price and had not tendered certain funds pursuant to the early payoff provision in the subject promissory note; appellant was therefore found to not be entitled to a release of the security on the note and, consequently, not entitled to damages or a judgment that he was no longer liable to appellees for further payments under the note.

Tony served as outside counsel for the DPUC in administrative appeals from that agency’s approval of the proposed Con-Ed/Northeast Utilities merger by the Connecticut Attorney General and the Office of Consumer Counsel; he obtained regulatory approval for the largest open space land sale in Connecticut, a $90 million water company land sale involving over 18,000 acres to the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, and has represented water companies in adequacy of service investigations, transfer proceedings and rate cases; he represented Connecticut’s largest natural gas distribution company in a complex DPUC proceeding involving the competitive unbundling of natural gas transportation and supply services and in an operational and rate review; as outside counsel on utility matters to the City of Bridgeport, he has represented the City in federal court litigation with pay telephone providers and in proceedings for the taking of electric utility property by the City for a substantial urban redevelopment project; on behalf of ISO New England Inc., the independent system operator of the New England bulk power grid, he has been active in state siting proceedings involving transmission lines and was involved in federal and state legislative and regulatory reviews of the Northeast blackout of 2003.