In his almost three decades with Moye O’Brien, Anthony “Tony” Kovalcik has had the honor of representing and serving general contractors, construction managers, engineering firms, and other construction professionals on a wide variety of public and private projects, ranging from the C.W. Bill Young 15.5 billion gallon Regional Reservoir in Hillsborough County, Florida; the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco; the Wildcat Point 1,000-megawatt gas-fired combined cycle Power Generating Facility in Maryland; the McCook Reservoir Distribution Tunnel System Project in Chicago; the Savannah River Site Nuclear Facility in South Carolina; and the state-of-art NCL Cruise Terminal and Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center in Miami.

Tony is Board Certified in Construction Law by The Florida Bar and AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell. His practice involves a broad range of issues, including contract preparation, review and negotiation, project support, contract disputes, payment and performance bond issues, construction defects, construction liens, bid protests, DBE and SBE certification, and design professional liability, on both private and public construction projects. Tony has actively litigated cases in the state and federal courts of Florida as well as a number of other states, including at the appellate level, and in a variety of arbitrations, mediations and administrative proceedings.

Tony’s recent work includes the representation of a general contractor joint venture partner on a $245 million transportation operations center in Miami; an EPC contractor on a $500 million power generating facility in Maryland in pursuing more than $225 million in claims against the owner in federal court action in Virginia; a general contractor as project and litigation counsel on a $160 million mixed-used high-rise in Miami in pursuing $10.1 million in claims and defending against $9.5 million in claims in state court in Miami, Florida; a construction manager as project counsel on a $200 million state-of-art cruise terminal project in Miami; a design-builder on a more than $1.3 billion light-rail transit project in Los Angeles in pursuing more than $675 million in claims; and a contractor in the successful defense of a bid protest on an airport terminal project in Key West.

• Thomas University, J.D., with honors, 1996
  • Editor-in-Chief, St. Thomas Law Review, 1995-96
• University of Florida, Master of Arts, 1985
• College of William and Mary, Bachelor of Arts, 1983

• The Florida Bar
  • Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section, Construction Law Committee
• The American Bar Association
  • Forum on Construction Law
• Board Certified in Construction Law by The Florida Bar
• AV Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell