Tony Sparks

Practice Areas

Tony provides a wide range of corporate and securities law advice including on equity capital markets; mergers and acquisitions; public and private capital; corporate advisory and governance matters.

He regularly advises corporates, lead managers, sponsors, boards and major shareholders on transformational, market leading and award-winning transactions. He is recognised as one of Australia' s leading ECM lawyers.

Tony has been the lead partner on Australasian Law Awards winning or shortlisted deals every year since 2016 and is a previous 'Lawyer of the Year' for ECM in Best Lawyers in Australia. He is also included for M&A, Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Financial Institutions.

He is listed as a leading lawyer for capital markets in all major directories including Chambers Asia Pacific (Band 1), Legal 500 (Asia Pacific) (included in the 'Hall of Fame'), IFLR 1000 and the International Who's Who of Capital Markets Lawyers.

Tony leads A&O Shearman's Australian ECM offering and is Chair of the APAC ECM Focus Group.