Mr. Sparling’s practice focuses primarily on white collar criminal defense and complex civil litigation.

Mr. Sparling has represented individuals and corporations in many sensitive and high-profile matters, and has extensive experience with all phases of criminal and regulatory investigations and proceedings. He has handled major matters involving a broad range of white collar crime issues, including allegations of securities and accounting fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, money laundering, stock options backdating, and tax offenses.

Mr. Sparling also has extensive experience conducting corporate internal investigations for Fortune 100 companies, and has represented both officers and directors in connection with such investigations. Mr. Sparling's representations in corporate internal investigations have also included working with auditors and disclosure counsel, as well as outside regulators and government agencies.

Mr. Sparling also has experience with complex securities and commercial litigation, corporate control matters and arbitration proceedings. He has litigated matters in both state and federal courts, including derivative actions, securities class actions and ERISA cases.

In addition, Mr. Sparling represents professional boxers and others in the boxing profession. He has won high-profile boxing arbitrations and court proceedings for world champion boxers and for boxing promoters in matters concerning exclusive promotional contractual rights.

Mr. Sparling has also written and co-authored publications on the attorney work-product doctrine, the attorney-client privilege, and issues concerning the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

J.D., summa cum laude, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 1998

• Executive Editor, Cardozo Law Review
• Order of the Coif
• Felix Frankfurter Award

B.A., cum laude, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1993

Honorable Maryanne Trump Barry, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2001 - 2002
Honorable Robert N. Chatigny, U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut, 1999 - 2000

New York, 1999
Connecticut, 1998

U.S. Supreme Court, 2005
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2005
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 2004
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 2003
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 2002
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2002