Adam Santa Maria

Founder of Affinity Capital Group and one of Perth’s senior corporate finance advisors, Adam brings deep experience in investment banking, deal execution and entrepreneurial innovation.

Adam has managed the public listings of more than 25 companies on the Australian Securities Exchange and has advised on, or raised capital for, over $100 billion in announced transactions. He specialises in deal execution, structuring, capital raising, and management support across a range of industries.

He has an extensive background in M&A and strategic advice, having gained direct executive experience in a multitude of private and listed companies, including as CEO, Chair, General Counsel, Company Secretary and as a Board director. He is also responsible for the execution of Affinity’s private equity strategy and the coordination and integration of the firm’s broader activities. Prior to Affinity, Adam was the co-founder of a successful investment bank focused on the natural resources sector and emerging high potential businesses.

Adam’s corporate finance and investment banking career spans across two decades, dedicated to ensuring promising companies, founders and executives receive the support and capital they require to achieve their objectives.

Adam is a 2021 WA Business News 40 Under 40 winner and holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia. Adam also has a Master of Applied Finance (Kaplan) and is a candidate for Executive MBA at Oxford University.

Adam also completed the Emerging Leaders Program at Harvard University and was a co-founder and director of Stanford University’s Spark Co-Lab Australian accelerator. In addition to his role at Affinity, he sits on a number of industry advisory and government boards and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Adam, in addition to being group Managing Director, acts as Affinity’s General Counsel. Adam was previously a lawyer in a tier one global law firm and is an experienced general counsel with 15 years’ in-house experience in financial institutions and public companies, having advised on some of the world’s most significant transactions working alongside some of Australia’s largest and most successful companies. He is a practicing solicitor and Justice of the Peace, admitted to the Supreme Courts of Western Australia, Victoria and the High Court of Australia.