Partner · Baker McKenzie
Melbourne, VIC
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Richard Lustig is a partner at Baker McKenzie in Melbourne, working in mergers & acquisitions, capital markets and equity & debt transactions. Doyle’s Guide lists Richard Lustig as Recommended among Victoria’s business and commercial lawyers in 2026, and Recommended in its Corporate Lawyers, Victoria list. The Victorian register of lawyers lists Richard Lustig as a current practitioner (Principal with Trust).
Firm
Baker McKenzie
Role
Partner
Office
Melbourne
Doyle’s Guide
Recommended 2026
Register
Principal with Trust
Richard Lustig is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Melbourne office, where he leads the firm's Australian mergers and acquisitions practice. He has practised for around 30 years, principally acting for bidders and target companies on public takeovers and schemes of arrangement, as well as initial public offerings and capital raisings. His work also extends to ASX listing-rule compliance, Corporations Act advice and capital restructuring, with a strong cross-border and Asia-Pacific focus.
Doyle’s Guide lists Richard Lustig as Recommended among Victoria’s business and commercial lawyers in 2026, and Recommended in its Corporate Lawyers, Victoria list.
Richard Lustig’s most recent listings. Every edition we could verify is set out in the ranking history below.
Every Doyle’s listing we could verify for Richard Lustig. Each list page was opened individually on doylesguide.com, one edition at a time, on 17 September 2026; no run of years has been inferred from a single page.
Years are the edition years Doyle’s publishes. We searched Doyle’s Victorian and national lawyer lists for commercial, corporate, property, leasing, insolvency, technology, employment, construction and estates work from 2015 to 2026.
As listed by Baker McKenzie:
Sectors. Financial institutions; Energy & infrastructure; Listed companies (general).
Listings in other directories, as published by the source shown. We have not independently verified these.
Richard Lustig is listed on the Victorian register of lawyers kept by the Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner. The entry is reproduced below as it appeared on 17 September 2026 (the address field is omitted).
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Richard Lustig is a partner at Baker McKenzie in Melbourne, working in mergers & acquisitions, capital markets and equity & debt transactions.
Doyle’s Guide lists Richard Lustig as Recommended among Victoria’s business and commercial lawyers in 2026, and Recommended in its Corporate Lawyers, Victoria list. Each edition is linked in the ranking history on this page.
According to Baker McKenzie: Mergers & Acquisitions; Capital Markets; Equity & Debt Transactions; Public M&A; SPACs/de-SPAC Transactions; Financial Institutions; Energy & Infrastructure.
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