Richard Lustig
Biography
Richard is recognized as a leading recommended lawyer by each of Chambers Asia Pacific (2025, corporate / mergers and acquisitions), Best Lawyers in Australia (2026, M&A and equity capital markets), Chambers Global (2024, corporate / mergers and acquisitions), Legal 500 (2024, private practice M&A powerlist), IFLR1000 (2024, equity capital markets), Doyles (2024, business and commercial law) and Lexology Index (2025, M&A).
Chambers Asia Pacific 2025 states: “Richard Lustig heads the Baker McKenzie M&A team from the Melbourne office, taking personal charge of many key mandates and bringing to his work especially noted experience in the handling of cross-border transactions. His strengths per a Corporate / M&A respondent is: ‘Richard is not just strong within his specific area of expertise, he also has a breadth of knowledge and experience, legally and commercially, across many sectors, which we find invaluable.’ "
Practice Focus
Richard is a recognised leading mergers and acquisitions lawyer. He has 30 years' experience in acting for bidders and targets focusing on public mergers and acquisitions (M&A) including takeovers and schemes of arrangement, as well as initial public offerings and capital raisings. His focus consequently covers international transactions, the Takeovers Panel, directors' duties, private mergers & acquisitions, corporate governance advice, Listing Rules compliance, Corporations Act advice, and capital restructurings.
Richard coordinates many clients using Baker McKenzie worldwide, and travels frequently in the Asia Pacific region including Japan. Richard acts as the Baker McKenzie client relationship partner for most of the clients mentioned below, and enjoys close relationships with them and their corporate advisors. Richard was seconded to each of Fosters and Coles, and has a good understanding of the client's perspective of the function of its legal advisers.
Representative Legal Matters
- Acting for acquirers and listed companies in initiating and defending takeovers.
- Acting on schemes of arrangement and other mergers and acquisitions.
- Acted for numerous parties in the Takeovers Panel.
- Advising on cross-border acquisitions and transactions.
- Advising on a broad range of capital raisings.
- Advising on numerous listings on the ASX and other securities exchanges.
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Chairman, Law Regulation and Ethics Graduate Diploma subject run by Kaplan (previously Finsia), 2003-2012
- Member, Australian Corporate Lawyers Association
- Member, Melbourne Mining Club
Admissions
- Victoria~Australia (1990)
Education
- University of Melbourne (LLB, Hons)
- University of Melbourne (Bachelor of Commerce)
- FINSIA (Kaplan) (Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance & Investment - Corporate Finance)
Languages
- English
- Hebrew