Sheppard

Corporate; Real Estate, Energy, Land Use & Environmental

Tony Toranto is a nationally recognized real estate, finance and commercial lawyer. A strategic counselor, he handles a broad range of transactions for clients across the United States. Tony is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and co-leads the Energy and Infrastructure team.

With both an MBA and a law degree, Tony previously worked in private equity and has been a client of more than 20 law firms. This background gives him an intimate understanding of the client perspective paired with deep knowledge of the business and legal dimensions of transactions. Clients rely on his strategic insights and practical business sense to solve their most difficult problems.

Tony advises on a wide range of project development and financing matters and is especially known for his work on energy and infrastructure projects, including some of the industry’s largest conventional and renewable deals. His experience covers capital raising, acquisitions, dispositions, development, financing, joint ventures and complex leasing transactions with deal values reaching into the billions of dollars.

He has advised sponsors, borrowers, lenders, investors, guarantors and other clients on hundreds of transactions with an aggregate value in the tens of billions of dollars. His clients include household names and public companies as well as dynamic high-growth middle-market and emerging partnerships and LLCs in the energy, infrastructure, real estate, financial services and life sciences industries.

In his free time, Tony enjoys reading—particularly historical fiction, astrophysics and engineering—as well as woodworking and other hands-on projects.

State Bar of California

Salk Institute Excelerators - Cabinet Member

Stanford Graduate School of Business Young Real Estate Professionals (Land Dogs) - Founder and Member

La Jolla Country Day-Building and Grounds Committee

J.D., Stanford Law School

M.B.A., Stanford University

M.A., Stanford University, 1994

A.B., Stanford University, 1994, Phi Beta Kappa