Calvin Ketchum

Calvin Ketchum is associate vice president and associate counsel for strategic transactions at LPL Financial. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and corporate transactions.

Before joining LPL Financial in 2025, Ketchum was an associate at Davis+Gilbert, where he practiced corporate law and worked on mergers and acquisitions. He previously practiced at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.

Ketchum began his legal career as a judicial clerk to Vice Chancellor Tamika Montgomery-Reeves of the Delaware Court of Chancery. Before law school, he worked at Bates White Economic Consulting and as a legal assistant at Kaye Scholer.

Ketchum earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where he was a senior editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. He earned his bachelor’s in economics and international studies from Northwestern University.