Tony Riordan, Cornwall Stodart

Tony’s career spans over 30 years. He specialises in advising and representing clients in taxation, duty and other revenue laws (in both state and federal jurisdictions).

His practice focuses on mid-market commercial clients and high net-worth individuals, with particular emphasis on SME trusts, private companies and partnerships in structural matters and for mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. He has specific expertise in estate planning for families with sophisticated and complex structures.

Tony represents clients and their accounting advisors in dealing with the ATO and SRO at senior levels in various matters including disputed assessments, tax audits and applications for private rulings.

In Tony’s personal capacity and on behalf of the Law Council of Australia’s Tax Committee and the Law Institute of Victoria’s Taxation & Revenue Committee, he has been appointed to various advisory and consultation panels with the ATO and is currently on the Legal Practitioners Round Table forum and the Tax Practitioners Board Consultative Forum.

Throughout the course of his career, Tony has delivered numerous papers and presentations for the Law Institute of Victoria, the Tax Institute, the Institute of Chartered Accountants, CPA Australia, the National Tax & Accountants Association and other professional bodies promoting expertise in taxation advice to their members.