Ron Smooker

About Ron Smooker

Ron Smooker is a Melbourne-based partner at Maddocks working on complex corporate and financing matters, including large-scale mergers and acquisitions. His practice covers advice to listed and private companies on joint ventures, long-running commercial contracts and other business arrangements, and he has also acted for parties financing major projects. He advises clients across a range of industries including transport, mining, consulting, energy and resources, and media, and is separately recognised for governance and equity capital markets work. Several independent legal directories rank him among leading Australian corporate and M&A advisers.

Doyle’s Guide listed Ron Smooker as Recommended among Victoria’s business and commercial lawyers in 2025, and Ron Smooker does not appear in that list’s 2026 edition.

Doyle’s Guide rankings

Ron Smooker’s most recent listings. Every edition we could verify is set out in the ranking history below.

Business & Commercial Lawyers, VictoriaRecommendedDoyle’s 2025 · MaddocksSource →

About Doyle’s Guide rankings. Doyle’s Guide produces annual tier rankings of individual lawyers from peer, client and referrer surveys. Tiers run Market Leader / Preeminent / Leading / Recommended. We report Doyle’s published rankings with attribution; we do not produce these tiers ourselves. Read Doyle’s methodology →

Doyle’s ranking history

Every Doyle’s listing we could verify for Ron Smooker. 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.

Business & Commercial Lawyers, VictoriaRecommendedRecommended 2021–2022, 2025Source →
Corporate Lawyers, VictoriaRecommendedRecommended 2022Source →
Corporate & Commercial Lawyers (SME & Mid-Market Matters), VictoriaRecommendedRecommended 2018Source →
Corporate/M&A Lawyers (Smaller & Mid-Market Matters), VictoriaLeadingLeading 2017Source →
Corporate Lawyers, MelbourneRecommendedRecommended 2015Source →

Years are the edition years Doyle’s publishes. Ron Smooker is not in the Victorian business and commercial lawyers list for 2023–2024, 2026, which we confirmed by searching each of those pages; that list was first published in 2021. 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.

What Ron Smooker handles

As listed by Maddocks:

Corporate & Commercial
Mergers & Acquisitions
Equity Capital Markets
Restructuring & Insolvency
Environmental, Social & Governance
Advertising, Brand & Marketing

Sectors. Transport & Logistics; Mining; Consulting; Energy & Resources; Media & Entertainment; Infrastructure; Education; Consumer Markets.

Other recognition

Listings in other directories, as published by the source shown. We have not independently verified these.

Recognised for Commercial Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, and Corporate/Governance practice by Best Lawyers Australia, 2026-2027. (source)
Recommended by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific for Corporate and M&A, 2026. (source)
Recommended by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific for Capital Markets: Equity, 2023-2026. (source)
Recognised by the Chambers Asia-Pacific Guide for Capital Markets: Equity, 2023-2026. (source)
Recognised by IFLR1000 (South Asia and Australasia rankings) as a Notable Practitioner, 2025. (source)
Finalist, Australian Dealmaker of the Year, Australasian Law Awards 2023. (source)
He and his team won a Mid-Market Deal of the Year award at the 2022 Australasian Law Awards. (source)

Register details

Ron Smooker 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).

Name on the registerRonald Smooker
Practising certificate typePrincipal with Trust
Practising atMaddocks
Areas of practiceBanking/Finance, Business/Corporate Law, Charity/Not-For-Profit, Commercial Law, Energy/Resources, Entertainment/Media/Sports, Litigation - general, Transport/Logistics
Accredited specialisationsNot applicable
LanguagesNot applicable

About the register. The register records every person entitled to practise law in Victoria. A principal certificate is held by a partner or director of a law practice; “with trust” means the practitioner may receive trust money. Areas of practice are nominated by the practitioner. View the register entry →

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Ron Smooker?

Ron Smooker is a partner at Maddocks in Melbourne, working in corporate & commercial, mergers & acquisitions and equity capital markets.

Is Ron Smooker ranked by Doyle’s Guide?

Doyle’s Guide listed Ron Smooker as Recommended among Victoria’s business and commercial lawyers in 2025, and Ron Smooker does not appear in that list’s 2026 edition. Each edition is linked in the ranking history on this page.

What does Ron Smooker specialise in?

According to Maddocks: Corporate & Commercial; Mergers & Acquisitions; Equity Capital Markets; Restructuring & Insolvency; Environmental, Social & Governance; Advertising, Brand & Marketing.

How do I contact Ron Smooker?

Through Maddocks. This profile is editorial; Ron Smooker has not claimed it and has no commercial relationship with Lawyer Reviews.

Sources

Doyle’s Guide. Every ranking on this page was read from a published Doyle’s Guide list page on doylesguide.com on 17 September 2026, one page per list per edition. Doyle’s tiers are produced by Doyle’s from peer, client and referrer surveys; we report them with attribution.

Register. The register block reproduces the entry on the Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner register of lawyers, retrieved 17 September 2026.

Biography. The summary, practice areas and background are paraphrased from Maddocks’s profile, reviewed in September 2026, and from the further sources linked beside each item. We have not used data brokers or LinkedIn, and we do not name clients or transactions.

Photo. Portrait as published by the firm or organisation named in the sources above. Copyright remains with its owner; we will remove it on request.

Not a paid placement. Ron Smooker has not paid for this profile, has not claimed it, and has no commercial relationship with this site. If any fact here is wrong, tell us and we will correct it.

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