Tony has more than 20 years of experience advising clients in employment-related matters, including industrial strategies and disputes, equal employment opportunity, termination of employment issues, enterprise bargaining, transmission of business/privatisation and whistleblower issues. Tony’s clients cover industries as diverse as power generation, retail, banking and manufacturing, including Alcoa, Kraft Foods, Loy Yang Power and Snowy Hydro.

He appears as an advocate in courts and tribunals, including Fair Work Australia, Federal Court and anti-discrimination tribunals. Since the commencement of the Fair Work Act in 2009, Tony has represented clients in bargaining disputes, scope order proceedings and secret ballot proceedings. Since 2008, Best Lawyers has identified Tony as one of Australia’s leading labour and employment lawyers.

Tony works closely with clients in the banking, food, vehicle, defence  and power industries. His key clients include Alcoa, Hydro Tasmania, Kraft Foods, Loy Yang Power, Snowy Hydro, Bupa, National Australia Bank, Gippsland Water and the Tenix Group. His pro bono clients include the Brotherhood of St Laurence and Scope.

Tony has worked in the Melbourne and Sydney offices of Freehills, as well as being seconded to Telstra as Employee Relations Counsel where he assisted Telstra in meeting its legal and industrial objectives in preparation for privatisation. He has considerable experience in all employment related aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

Tony was made a partner of Freehills in 1996. His key areas of interest are enterprise bargaining and workplace reform. He has also acted for employers in devising company policies and processes addressing whistleblower claims and employee grievances. Tony was recognised by Best Lawyers as one of Australia’s premier employment lawyers in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Tony holds law and commerce degrees from the University of Melbourne.

Tony is a member of the Industrial Relations Society of Victoria and the Australian Human Resources Institute.